Amy J. Schneider

Amy J. Schneider has owned Featherschneider Editorial Services since 1995. Her projects have included scholarly and trade nonfiction books as well as more than 500 novels and anthologies for traditional publishers, including series works and best sellers in multiple genres. She is the author of The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Since 2012 Amy has written articles and presented sessions on fiction copyediting, macros, templates, mastermind groups, and the business of freelancing for ACES: The Society for Editing, the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), the Copyediting newsletter, the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), Editors Canada, the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), and the Northwest Editors Guild. When Amy is not working in the soft glow of her four-monitor desktop, she enjoys running, singing, and teaching her springer spaniels to do silly tricks (not all at the same time).