If you’ve landed on this page, you’re looking for information about how I can help you get writing done or help make your existing writing really SHINE. I mean, you want your good ideas to not only make a great impression but also to have an impact, right? That’s exactly what my clients get when they work with me and my team.

How can we help you?

We offer a few different services that can help you not only figure out what you’re really trying to say and why it matters, but how to say it in a way that readers can understand. (After all, screaming into the void all by yourself is not scholarship; it’s just screaming into the void by yourself.) We can help you in two ways:

  1. Copyediting, which is style correction at the sentence level.

  2. Developmental editing, that big-picture kind of editing to determine what’s working in your writing project, what’s not, and most importantly, how to fix it.

Which kind of editing do you need? Book a free call and let’s talk about it.

What kinds of projects can we help with?

Academic editing is a pretty specialized kind of editing that requires a good understanding of the requirements and nuances of different genres and the publication process. We aren’t experts in everything. My team and I specialize in editing in the following:

  • Book manuscripts and chapters

  • Journal articles

  • Dissertations and theses (copy-editing only)

  • Book proposals

  • Assorted non-fiction projects (blogs, manuals, press releases, etc.)

And just to be clear, we don’t produce written work for anyone under any circumstances.

In which disciplines or fields do we specialize?

We’re historians by training, so obviously love working with historians and history-related projects and we’re most at home evaluating scholarship in the humanities. On the other hand, if your work falls outside of the realm of historical analysis, I think you’ll be surprised by the kind of feedback we can give you precisely because we’re not in your field. Non-specialists can often offer really useful suggestions because we’re looking at your work with totally fresh eyes and without any disciplinary preconceptions.

We work with scholars in the humanities and social sciences in the following fields:

  • History, art history

  • Women’s studies, gender studies, and feminist studies

  • Media studies

  • Communication

  • Philosophy

  • Psychology

  • Anthropology/Archaeology

  • Cultural studies

  • Indigenous studies

  • Geography

  • Psychology

  • Sociology

  • Literature

  • Modern languages

  • Education

  • Political science

  • Religious studies

  • Music

  • Social Work

We’re probably less helpful if your field is in the natural or medical sciences just because your field and its writing culture is really different (in a good way!) from the way we approach our subjects and write about them. On the other hand, if you don’t see your field listed, book a call and we can talk about your unique field and whether we can help.

This could be you, all clear about your ideas and excited about them! :D

Ready to work together?

Yaaay! If you haven’t booked a free call yet, click below to do that. I’d love to hear about your writing and where you feel stuck and how we might be able to help and make sure that we’ll be a good team. And it’s always nice to say hi to people.

Some fine print for you to read!

My editing schedule often fills up a month in advance. Please schedule editing services as early as possible to ensure that we have sufficient time for your project. We no longer accept rush projects with a deadline of less than 72 hours. You can expect 6-8 weeks for editing on a book manuscript and 3-4 weeks for a journal article.

Journal article editing runs $500-$1000 USD and book manuscript editing from $2000-$3500 USD.

Please be aware that I have a $500 minimum for all new client projects and I regret that I cannot give discounts regardless of circumstances.

I send invoices via a service called Dubsado, which can be paid securely online with a credit card. Invoices must be paid before I release the final edits to you. I regret to say that I cannot accept personal checks.

And finally, why work with me?

Since 2017, I’ve been the go-to academic publication consultant that scholars turn to when they’re fed up trying to guess the secret handshakes of academic writing and its archaic genre conventions through the popular but often ineffective school of “you’ll just figure it out.” (Like, how? Osmosis? I don’t know.)

I’m inviting you to my revolution, which involves teaching you step-by-step methods to master the rhetorical and writing skills that you never learned in graduate school or in whatever professional development workshops your institution provides. I’ll help you develop your diamonds-in-the-rough inklings into big ideas that shine and better yet, how to strategize to get your work published and read by the audiences you want.

You want your ideas to make an impact on how we think about the world around us, but I’m guessing that you’re struggling to figure out how to bring your ideas, research, and writing together with a bang. That’s exactly where I come in. Let me teach you how.

Hey there. I’m Lisa Munro, PhD.

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