Brewer Editorial Services

Rebecca Brewer started Brewer Editorial Services after editing at Ace, Roc, and Berkley at Penguin for many years. If you’re looking for a freelance editor for a substantive or developmental edit, line edit, copyedit, proofread, or a query letter critique, this is the place.

Whether you are an individual looking to hone your craft or a company looking for an extra set of eyes, I’m happy to work on variety of genres. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, speculative fiction, cozy mysteries, and LGBTQ+ books are our specialty.

About

When Rebecca Brewer was in high school, she realized that being an editor of science fiction and fantasy was for her. After attending Emerson College to get her BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing, she moved to New York. Once there, she had publishing internships, worked at a Borders bookstore, and was an author’s assistant to Peter V. Brett, before becoming an editorial assistant at the Science Fiction Book Club.

In 2012, she started at Ace/Roc under the Berkley imprint at Penguin, where she fell in love with editing amazing books. Her list included authors such as Guy Gavriel Kay, Emma Newman, Christina Henry, S.M. Stirling, John Varley, Genevieve Cogman, and Zen Cho, among many others.

Her editing philosophy is to help the author make their book the best it can be, while remaining true to their voice and vision. As an editor, she becomes the author’s “first” reader and fan, which can sometimes include writing comments such as, “LOL”, “Oh no,” and “[Insert reader crying here]”, as well as making suggestions that could improve the novel. Most of all, she wants the author to be happy with their book after she has offered some assistance.