About
An editor who has sat in your chair.
- Edits
- Creative non-fiction · Finance
- Writes
- Screen · Essay · Copy
- Style guides
- Chicago · AP · House
- Works with
- Authors · Publishers · Agents
Hello — I’m the LePage in LePage Editorials.
As a writer, I understand firsthand how taxing and painstaking the editing process can be. I also understand what a great edit can do for a piece of work. My experience shapes every manuscript I touch. I know what it costs to put a draft in someone else's hands, because I've done it myself, many times.
As an editor, I've spent time in two worlds that rarely overlap: creative non-fiction, where the truth has to read like a story, and finance content, where complex, high-stakes material has to become effortlessly clear without losing its precision. Memoir taught me to protect a writer's voice; finance taught me that clarity is non-negotiable. Your manuscript gets both instincts at once.
My range of experience runs from screenwriting, where structure is everything and every scene must earn its place, to social media copy, where you have eight words to make someone care. Each discipline sharpened a different editorial muscle. This means I can meet your book wherever it lives: narrative or analytical, literary or commercial, eighty thousand words or eighty characters.
What that range does for your book
Structure, from screenwriting
Screenwriters can't hide a sagging second act behind pretty sentences. I bring that structural discipline to every developmental edit — pacing, escalation, and payoff you can feel.
Voice, from creative non-fiction
Years inside true stories taught me the difference between polishing a voice and sanding it off. My line edits make you sound more like yourself, never less.
Precision, from finance
When a misplaced modifier can misstate a number, you learn to read with forensic attention. That rigor comes standard in every copyedit and proof.
Economy, from copywriting
Social copy is a masterclass in earning attention fast. I'll help your opening pages — and every chapter after — respect your reader's time.
How I’ll work with you
Editing is a relationship before it's a service. Expect straight answers about what your manuscript needs (and what it doesn't), notes that explain the why behind every suggestion, and a collaborator who treats your deadline and your voice with equal seriousness. The goal is never to make your book sound edited — it's to make it unmistakably, confidently yours.