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Last updated: 8/20/2025
Melissa Brandzel
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  She/Her
  Female
  Master's degree
  No
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Editor/Copy Editor/Writer/Ghostwriter
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  Melissa Brandzel is an editor and writer who specializes in line editing. Shes particularly adept at preserving the authors voice, whether shes performing a light edit or a major rewrite. Her work is creative and comprehensive, always resulting in a smooth, polished piece that is clear, organized, consistent in tone, and appropriate in length. She has edited a wide variety of booksnonfiction, fiction, coffee-table books, travel guidebooks, cookbooks; nearly fifty magazines, including Entrepreneur, Departures, Bon Appetit, Cosmopolitan, and Los Angeles; plus websites, blogs, online courses, and marketing pieces for large and small businesses. Melissas client list includes publishing companies (e.g., HarperCollins, Random House, Harlequin, Conde Nast), marketing firms and ad agencies, and independent authors, with subject matter ranging from business to travel, self-help, lifestyle, finance, food, real estate, photography, health/fitness, pets, fashion, architecture, entertainment, and more. She writes book jacket copy, magazine articles, advertising copy, website content, and catalog copy, and is a book ghostwriter. Melissa has a bachelors degree from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) and a masters degree from Northwestern University (Go Wildcats!).
  Copyediting, Developmental/Substantive editing, Ghostwriting, Line editing, Manuscript evaluation, Proofreading, Writing
  Advertising-PR, Aerospace/Aviation, Architecture, Arts, Arts, Performing, Business, Film/TV/Theater, Finance, Fitness, Food and cooking, Health, History, Humor, Lifestyle, Marketing, Music, Nursing, Parenting/Family, Personal Finance, Popular Culture, Psychology, Real Estate, Self-help, Travel, Women's studies
  General Fiction, Historical, Mystery/Thriller, Romance
  Cookbooks, How-to, Personal Finance , Self-help
  Biographies, Blogs, Book proposals, Catalogs, Corporate communications, Creative nonfiction, Ebooks, E-learning, Essays, Magazines, Memoirs, Newsletters, Newspapers, Novels, Promotional materials, Recipes, Resumes and cover letters, Reviews, Scripts, Short stories, Social media, Training materials, Websites
  Adult, College
  English
  Associated Press (AP), Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS)
  Acrobat, Excel, Google Docs, Google Sheets, InCopy, InDesign, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Word
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