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Sarah Mitchell
Kingswell Press · Manuscript Specialist

Sarah Mitchell

Manuscript Specialist: Copyediting, Proofreading & Style Consistency

5.0 · 19+ reviews

Sarah is the final set of expert eyes every manuscript needs: precise, thorough, and fluent in every major style guide. She ensures your book is error-free, internally consistent, and ready for the press.

270+Manuscripts Completed
10+Years Experience
30+Countries
99%Client Satisfaction
About

The Detail That Makes the Difference

I'm Sarah, and I've spent a decade doing the work that separates a good manuscript from a professional one. Copyediting and proofreading aren't glamorous, but they are the difference between a book that readers trust and one that quietly undermines itself on every page.

I work at two levels. First, the macro: internal consistency, voice coherence, continuity of character names, timelines, and facts. Then the micro: every comma, every hyphen, every sentence that stumbles even slightly. By the time a manuscript leaves my desk it is clean. Genuinely clean, not just spell-checked.

I'm fully fluent in Chicago Manual of Style, APA, MLA, and several house style guides developed by publishers I've worked with directly. I adapt completely to the conventions each project requires, and I flag inconsistencies rather than silently correcting them, because authors deserve to understand every change.

Whether your manuscript is a literary novel, a business book, an academic text, or a screenplay, I bring the same standard of precision. Nothing goes past me twice.

CopyeditingProofreadingChicago Manual of StyleAPA & MLALine EditingFact CheckingContinuity ReviewAcademic TextsStyle Guide Development
Work Experience
  • Senior Copyeditor

    Kingswell Press

    2019 – Present

  • Copyeditor

    Whitmore Academic Press

    2016 – 2019

  • Editorial Proofreader

    Vanguard Publishing

    2014 – 2016

Languages
  • EnglishNative
  • ItalianFluent
  • PortugueseConversational

Zero-Error Record: 270+ Manuscripts

Sarah has maintained a perfect post-publication error record across every manuscript she has completed at Kingswell Press since 2019.

Portfolio

Manuscripts I've Completed

A selection of published titles that passed through Sarah's editorial hands, spanning fiction, non-fiction, academic, and business publishing.

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Reviews

What Authors Say

My academic manuscript had to meet the standards of a major university press. Sarah went through every citation, every heading, every footnote. The press editor told me it was one of the cleanest submissions they'd received. That was entirely down to Sarah.

Caroline Bates

Caroline Bates

Verified Author

I thought I'd caught everything before I sent my thriller to Sarah. She found seventeen continuity errors I had completely missed: characters appearing in two places at once, a plot detail that contradicted itself 80 pages later. Absolutely indispensable.

Tom Ashford

Tom Ashford

Verified Author

English is my second language and I was anxious about the editing process. Sarah preserved my voice completely. She corrected what was wrong without ever making the prose feel like someone else wrote it. That balance is rare and I'm very grateful.

Yuki Tanaka

Yuki Tanaka

Verified Author

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