Sarah Riggle Editing Services

Full-length screenplay? On it. 30-page How-To manual? You got it. Epic YA series? Yes, please!

I have been editing professionally for 5 years, teaching and mentoring for 15, and correcting grammar for 30. I hold a Master’s degree in English and a Bachelor’s in Social Studies Education. I specialize in working with authors to understand their audiences and to write for them in effective ways, even when that means a preposition is left hanging every now and then.

Working together can make an author's message work better at any point in the writing process. Plot and character work are just as hard as constructing an engaging textbook, and every word and sentence you write tells a reader how you feel about your topic (and often, how you feel about them). All writing is fair game for editing!

A project plan can be constructed for any amount of feedback a writer requires. As professionals know, a revision (idea-level adjustments) takes more time and creative energy than proofreading (sentence-level corrections). In order to keep my authors' message clear, I prefer a mix of scheduled live-document review sessions and phone/Zoom consultations with clients - but I am open to any tried-and-true collaboration methods!

Recent published edits include Dr. Gale’s Page, a blend of narrative and non-fiction designed for adolescent girls, “Failure to Adapt,” an only-slightly-snarky post-Afghanistan screenplay by Sage Lawrence, and Book Two of Melisa Peterson Lewis's thrilling Lazarus City series featuring a virus run rampant in not-too-distant-future Baltimore. I also contributed content for Chapter 9 of U.S. History & Constitutional Foundations Annotated Teacher Edition, a Perfection Learning textbook.

Below are Kindle Previews of my work with Dr. Gale Blakely, Book Two of the Lazarus City series, and H.L. Brooks's Hunters of Mohegan Falls books - Keep an eye out for my work in her special edition of Red August, coming soon!