Small Seeds Editing

📣 Currently booking for June 2026 and beyond! 🌿

Are you an indie author or academic writer looking for an editor? I’d love to work with you!

I offer line and copy edits, which means I:
👉 Keep an eye on spelling, punctuation, and grammar
👉️ Tighten wordy passages
👉️ Enhance word choice
👉️ Flag repetition or awkwardness
👉️ Give tips to improve pacing and flow

I edit:
📚 Fantasy (high/epic, urban, historical)
📚 YA
📚 Nonfiction
📚 and much more!

I work with complete manuscripts in Word format, applying amends with Track Changes. ✍️

Want to see if we’re a good fit? I offer FREE 1,000-word sample edits. This way you can get a feel for my editing style before you decide to proceed.

✉️ DM me if you have questions or would like a free sample edit!

📸 Petals & Lace Photography Studio ✨

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✨ Small Seeds Editing is participating in Hamilton Day for the FIFTH time! To help spread some city-wide love, I’m offering 10% off all editing services until November 30.

✨ DM for promo details and to chat about your WIP!

Discount is for Hamilton-based writers only. 🙂

📸 Petals & Lace Photography 🩵

📣 Currently booking for mid-January and February 2025!

Are you an indie author or academic writer looking for an editor? I’d love to work with you!

I offer line and copy edits, which means I:
👉 Keep an eye on spelling, punctuation, and grammar
👉️ Tighten wordy passages
👉️ Enhance word choice
👉️ Flag repetition or awkwardness
👉️ Give tips to improve pacing and flow

I edit:
📚 Fantasy (high/epic, urban, historical)
📚 YA
📚 Nonfiction
📚 and much more!

I work with complete manuscripts in Word format, applying amends with Track Changes. ✍️

Want to see if we’re a good fit? I offer FREE 1,000-word sample edits. This way you can get a feel for my editing style before you decide to proceed.

✉️ DM me if you have questions or would like a free sample edit!

📸 Petals & Lace Photography Studio

[Alt: Text reads: "Now booking. Jan, Feb 2025. Book editing. [email protected]" A white woman with brown hair is sitting at a small kitchen table, smiling, holding a mug, and reading a book.]

✨ Small Seeds is participating in Hamilton Day for the FOURTH time! To help spread some city-wide love, I’m offering 10% off all editing services until November 30.

✨ DM for promo details and to chat about your WIP!

Discount is for Hamilton-based writers only. 🙂

Are you a writer wanting more insight into the tools editors use to get the job done? Or an editor confused about the differences between a style sheet and style guide? Well, here ya go!

A style sheet records the decisions made by a copyeditor during the editing process. I create a style sheet for every single editing project, no matter the size, and this file is open throughout the entire process. Honestly, I would go bonkers without it!

A style sheet includes everything from physical descriptions of characters to spelling preferences (e.g., -ize or -ise suffixes) to tracking a story’s timeline and location details. It’s an extensive list of how to treat, for example, italics, headings, abbreviations, numbers, units of measurement, hyphenated words, date formats, and capitalization.

Its purpose? To ensure consistency. Since it’s a record of author preferences and editorial decisions, it can be referenced again and again to verify the treatment of editorial considerations – and to ensure that the same rules are applied no matter who’s handling the manuscript.

In short, a style sheet is a record of all style decisions for a manuscript.

Style guides, or style manuals, on the other hand, exist before editing begins. With extensive sections on editorial style, grammar, usage, and spelling, a style guide serves as a general reference. They contain rules for writing.

“The style guide prescribes what to do before work commences and the style sheet says what was done at the end of the work.” – Alexis Grewan, editor

The most widely used style guide among US book publishers is The Chicago Manual of Style (18th edition coming this September). Other heavy hitters include:

👉 The Canadian Press Stylebook; Editing Canadian English (both for Canadian publications)
👉 New Oxford Style Manual (for UK publications)
👉 The Associated Press Stylebook (for newspapers and magazines)
👉 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (used by many social scientists)
👉 Truly, the list goes on.

So while style sheets and style guides aim to ensure consistency, they also have key differences that make both essential tools for copyeditors! ✨