About Laura Poole

Laura Poole has been editing full-time since 1996. Her company is Archer Editorial Services, Inc., founded in 1997. She specializes in scholarly nonfiction copyediting in the humanities (books and journals) and provides training for publishers and editors. She currently serves on the ACES Awards Committee as head judge for the Robinson Prize.

Clients

  • University of Hawai’i Press
  • Duke University Press
  • Oxford University Press
  • University of Wisconsin Press
  • University of Pennsylvania Press
  • University of Iowa Press
  • Harvard University Asia Center
  • NERA
  • Lynne Rienner Publishers

Prizes and Awards

  • Robinson Prize, ACES The Society for Editing, 2020

Organizations

Member, ACES, The Society for Editing
Member, Northwest Editors Guild
Advanced Professional Member, Chartered Institute for Editing and Proofreading (UK)

Publications

Presentations

  • Created and presented a full-day (8-hour) workshop, the Copyediting and Proofreading Bootcamp, also presented as a multi-session webinar.
  • Created and presented Advanced Copyediting webinars.
  • Co-created (with Erin Brenner) the Freelancer Accelerator full-day workshop.

I present regularly at industry conferences (ACES, EFA, CIEP, and Northwest Editors Guild) since 2016. Topics have included:

  • Snippets: Phrase-Level Editing
  • Ctrl-Alt-Del: Robinson Prize Winners on Their Most Memorable Mistakes (panelist)
  • Act Like a Business! (panelist)
  • Retreats: Build Your Business with a Getaway
  • Thorns on the Rose: Tricky Editing Issues
  • High Tech, Low Tech, No Tech: Get Stuff Done
  • Commonsense Guide to Getting Started as a Freelancer
  • Breaking the Feast or Famine Cycle: Creating the Business You Want

Podcasts & Articles

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