👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor

👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor

@carolinavonkampen.com

Carolina VonKampen Editor: Books, poetry, query letters, content marketing Host: #StetChat @stetchat.com Member: ACES, EFA, Authors Guild Former history major. Writer? Reader Fan: #Survivor #JetLagTheGame #TheTraitorsUS #DragRaceUK 📍 STL 🚫 AI she/her

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👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor
@carolinavonkampen.com

As a freelance book editor, I provide: ✅ Editorial services for fiction and nonfiction books: developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, proofreading ✅ Poetry editing and book design ✅ Manuscript evaluations ✅ Query letter editing packages ✅ Print book design ✅ Self-publishing assistance

carolinavonkampen.comMeet Carolina VonKampen, a St. Louis Freelance Book EditorAs a St. Louis-based freelance book editor, I work with indie authors to polish their manuscripts for self-publishing or submissions.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social

Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

bookshop.orgBookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Amyville Hoyrror
@amyhoy.bsky.social

when i was in school, "revising a draft to make it yours" was called plagiariasm

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor
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oh this is a fun one!! #amediting #edibuddies

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com

The pettiest hill that I will die on is that if your cool character in a historical novel is rolling their eyes at social conventions, no they're not, eye-rolling didn't become a widely described gesture in English literature until the *1980s* books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

books.google.comGoogle Books Ngram ViewerGoogle Ngrams: rolled her eyes, rolled his eyes, 1600-2008

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#StetChat
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What are you working on this week, #edibuddies?

👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor
@carolinavonkampen.com

Free webinar from The Authors Guild: Estate Planning for #Writers: Protecting Your Creative Legacy 📆 Tuesday, October 27, 2026 ⏰ 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT Register here: authorsguild.org/event/estate... #amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #indieauthor #indieauthors

authorsguild.orgEstate Planning for Writers: Protecting Your Creative LegacyHow can writers prepare for their creative works to be licensed, adapted, republished, and protected once they are gone? Who will manage your intellectual property, and what outside professional…

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Rachel Lapidow
@editrix-rachel.bsky.social

Carolina is an awesome editor! If you're working on a poetry collection, nonfiction book, or novel and need an editor, she may be the right editor for you.

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Thank you to our Single Slice sponsor, Carolina VonKampen! @carolinavonkampen.com Carolina VonKampen is a St. Louis-based freelance book and poetry editor. Want to see if she’s a good fit for your project? Learn more at carolinavonkampen.com.

👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor
@carolinavonkampen.com

Free webinar from The Authors Guild: Estate Planning for #Writers: Protecting Your Creative Legacy 📆 Tuesday, October 27, 2026 ⏰ 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT Register here: authorsguild.org/event/estate... #amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #indieauthor #indieauthors

authorsguild.orgEstate Planning for Writers: Protecting Your Creative LegacyHow can writers prepare for their creative works to be licensed, adapted, republished, and protected once they are gone? Who will manage your intellectual property, and what outside professional…

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Northwest Editors Guild
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It's true! We'll be sharing more details about this virtual conference that's "A little shorter, but still immensely useful" within the next couple weeks!

👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor@carolinavonkampen.com

Exciting news: The En Dash Conference by @edsguild.bsky.social and @editorsteaclub.bsky.social will be January 22–23, 2027. More info coming soon from both editorsteaclub.org and edsguild.org! #amediting #edibuddies #editorsky #freelanceeditor

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Mia Tsai says buy her books
@itsamia.bsky.social

Lay/lie because no matter how many times I get it right, I'm still convinced I'm wrong

#StetChat@stetchat.com

Q6. What spelling, grammar, punctuation, or style rule is your skeleton in the closet—the thing you’re scared to admit you have to look up every time? ☠️ #StetChat

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#StetChat
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Join #StetChat's upcoming chats on Bluesky: 📆 November 4, 2026: Expanding Your Offerings 📆 November 18, 2026: Gifts for Editors That Don’t Suck 📆 December 2, 2026: Holiday Scheduling 📆 December 16, 2026: Wrapping Up 2026 📆 January 6, 2027: 2027 Goals #amediting #edibuddies #editorsky

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#StetChat
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On October 21, we hosted a #StetChat about editor scaries. We chatted about nightmare tech situations, typos that still haunt us, zombie rules, and more. Read the chat recap on our blog! stetchat.com/editor-scari... #amediting #edibuddies #freelanceeditor #editorsky

stetchat.com#StetChat Editor Scaries Recap | October 21, 2026Missed our #StetChat about editor scaries? We’ve rounded up the chat’s questions and (some of the) answers into this recap post.
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👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor
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Strategies to increase cohesion: ✅ Make sure the last few words of one sentence set up info that appears in the first few words of the next sentence ✅ Use pronoun + noun to summarize idea in previous sentence (“These events…” “That strategy…”) ✅ Use transition words (“First… Second…” “In addition…”

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👻 SCARE-olina VonKampen 🎃📚 Freelance Editor
@carolinavonkampen.com

The call for sessions for #ACES2027 in Puerto Rico is now open! ACES is looking for sessions about core editing skills, words & language, the business side of editing and freelancing, and soft skills for editors. Submit your session proposal by Sunday, Nov. 1: aceseditors.org/conferences/...

aceseditors.orgCall for SessionsJoin ACES 2027 in Puerto Rico. Save the date for four days of learning, networking, and professional development for editors.

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#StetChat
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Our next #StetChat is about expanding your offerings as an editor! 📆 Wednesday, November 4 ⏰ 4–5 p.m. ET | 1–2 p.m. PT #edibuddies #amediting #editorsky #freelanceediting #freelanceeditor