I am an editor who reads carefully and thoughtfully while making educated, consistent, and style-guided changes to ensure a clear, accessible, and professional piece of work. I am a resource authors can use to allow their story to shine in its fullest.
Happy Clients
“Her attention to detail, promptness, and knowledge made all the difference and allowed my project to brightly shine.”
Dayna did a fabulous job copyediting my psych-sci-fi novel Altered Estates. The work was complex and challenging for an editor because it uses a second-person POV in present tense, employs numerous foreign-language expressions that disembodied voices translate into English, and utilizes a unique set of unconventional “rules” for character dialogue, capitalization, punctuation, and text formatting. Dayna completely grasped the methodology behind the madness and edited the manuscript accordingly—and brilliantly.
- Chris Mathison (Altered Estates)
Dayna’s “edits and materials are incredibly polished, professional, and astute.” Working with her is “seamless,” and “I am thrilled by the quality of the analysis, the grammar edits, the style sheet—all of it is just wonderful.”
— Lauren Magnussen (Senior production editor at Mascot Books)
Dayna's manuscript evaluation gave me thoughtful, constructive, timely feedback that helped me improve my work. She let me know what she thought was working, as well as identified specific areas that could be refined. I later hired her to copy-edit the work, which she accomplished with a strong knowledge of style conventions while honoring my intentions as an author. I highly recommend her!
— Beth Domholdt (Emily Bergstrom’s lockdown Diary)
Dayna provided insightful, timely feedback on my first novel. She was a pleasure to work with during the editing process and the final product exceeded my expectations. I would highly recommend her to other authors.
— Tempie Jane McNutt (Contender)
Working with Dayna is wonderful. She provided brilliant ideas to help take my book to the next level. She provided a lot of help and insight which will help me get to the second installment of my trilogy. When I finish book 2, I will def be reaching out to her.
— Olive Hernandez (The Monster Scale)
Working with Dayna was a delight! I hired her to review an entire website's copy. She not only suggested numerous helpful changes,but was able to give content feedback on the complex value we were trying to express. 10 out 10 would hire again!
— JEREMY KANNE (CEO SMART YETI)
This was an amazing experience! Dayna understood my work and made me excited about making it better. I loved working with her.
— Stephanie Weber (The Ghost I live With)
Dayna has a careful eye and a curious mind. She was able to quickly understand my story challenges and structural needs and return with actionable suggestions that helped take my screenplay outline to the next level. Now I have the confidence to share it with producers, directors, and potential buyers.
— CLAY NEIGHER (VIRTUALLY EMPLOYED)
I was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of offers I recieved but I'm glad I picked the right one to help me clean up my project. She did a terrific job and I would highly recommend and will hire Dayna for future jobs.
— ALBERTO PADILLA (BACK TO BASICS: A BOXING MANUAL)
I recently had the pleasure of working with the extremely talented Dayna Jackson. I was faced with a deadline and had a quick turn-around on a writing project that needed to be submitted. Dayna was able to take my rough outline and turn it into a professional, easy-to-read final draft that I felt proud to present. Her attention to detail, promptness, and knowledge made all the difference and allowed my project to brightly shine. I cannot recommend Dayna as an editor enough!
— JAMAL NEFF (CLOUD NINE)
Without reservation I recommend Dayna to anyone who is seeking a talented professional to edit their literary work.