20 Years

Trends Magazine (11+), Type Directors Club (11+), NYC proofreader (11+), Pets Adviser (11+), The Nation magazine (11+), The New York Times (11+), The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (11+), Habitat Magazine (11+), Freelance New York City copyeditor (11+), Editor at Large (11+), AAHA Trends Magazine (11+), CEO Magazine (11+)

Common Sense Advisory, Lowell MA (11+), Crescent Hill Books (11+), Freelance manuscript proofreading (11+), Group of Minds (11+), Proofreading Service (NYC) (11+), Student Health 101 magazine (11+), SmileyBooks (1-2), NY State Education Department (1-2), TimeTrade (1-2), World Trade Centers Association (1-2)

I am a New York proofreader and editor who can handle fiction and nonfiction manuscript proofreading. I also have polished a wide variety of reports and documents, including magazine proofreading and jobs for newspapers, businesses, individuals and more. I provide translation proofreading for consulting firms. In a nutshell, I copy edit and proofread it all. Let me take on your nonfiction or fiction manuscript proofreading project.

Adept at Word and Excel. Extensive experience with InDesign, InCopy, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, PageMaker, PowerPoint, Illustrator, Harris & CCI pagination, and many other word-processing and pagination programs.

I am a former newspaper copy editor who can handle many editing styles, including: APA/MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, Associated Press and New York Times. Of course, I can adjust to any specific local style you may have. Let this NYC editor take on your project right now...

Microsoft Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, InCopy, Quark, Adobe Acrobat. I have a Mac and a PC! I have a scanner and also have the ability to send and receive faxes. Hire me as your freelance proofreader!

Communication Workers

"Dave did a fantastic job, even spotting a typo on a map that had been previously reviewed by many others and had never been caught. Within hours, he learned our style guide and did a test project for us in which we were amazed with how many errors we had overlooked.... We will definitely be working with him again, and would highly recommend him to other prospective clients with proofreading needs."

"I LOVE working with you. You're fast, efficient, and deadly with a red pen. We're totally thrilled with all that you do to help us. You're the man!"

"Thank Gawd our wonderful proofreader caught an atomic bomb of a mistake in our book! You caught some doozies!"

"Dave has a keen eye for typos, syntax and grammar, and very little gets by him."

"Great copyediting work! Always done in a timely manner. Best value for money as compared to any freelancer I have used in last 10 years."

Many more reviews at my website! (http://supercopyeditors.com/reviews.html)

Two Pulitzer Prizes for staff efforts during Hurricane Katrina at The Times-Picayune (shared by staff). Three individual Awards of Excellence by the Society for News Design in 2006 for Hurricane Katrina coverage. SND also issued a Judges' Special Recognition to the staff of The Times-Picayune, hailing the work during Hurricane Katrina as a stunning, stunning effort. (In 2006, I moved up north and began my New York City proofreading work.)

I am a professional, top-notch, award-winning New York City copy editor with proven experience, including at The New York Times. I will go over your manuscript or report with a fine-toothed comb and polish it into shiny, sparkly gold-star material. And the best part? I will hit the ground running. Let's get started now! Tell me about your project.

I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.