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Last updated: 8/27/2025
Mary E. Neighbour
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  Female
  White
  No
  No
  Bachelor's degree
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  Book Coaching, Cover Design, Editing
  Sometimes
  Senior
  Yes
  Currently Booking
  mary@medianeighbours.com
  MediaNeighbours
  30
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  Some callMary E. Neighboura book shepherd, though Mary wields a blue pencil far more expertly than a herding rod. For the past ten years, she and her husband have helped dozens of writers bring their manuscripts to the marketplace, throughMediaNeighbours, their publishing services business, where they edit, design, and assist authors through the entire self-publishing process.Passionate about helping authors make their work shine in the world, with a combined professional expertise of over fifty years in editing and design, this family team is one youll want to adopt as your guide through the challenging world of independent publishing. They help books win awards, including the Ben Franklin, Eric Hoffer, IPPY, Nautilus, and NIE.Marys other passion is learning about the history of slavery and how it impacts race relations today. She incorporated much of her research into her novel,Speak Right On: Conjuring the Slave Narrative of Dred Scott.
  Beta reading, Book Coaching, Book promotion, Coaching, Consulting, Copyediting, Design/Layout, Desktop and digital publishing, Developmental/Substantive editing, Fact-checking, Formatting, Ghostwriting, Indexing, Line editing, Literary coaching, Manuscript evaluation, Picture editing, Project management, Proofreading, Research, Self-publishing, Sensitivity reading, Subtitling/Captioning, Transcribing, Typesetting, Writing
  Aging, Arts, Arts, Visual, Business, Ecology/Environment, Film/TV/Theater, Fitness, Health, History, Leadership, Lifestyle, Marketing, Medicine, Multicultural Interest, Nonprofit Organizations, Parenting/Family, Philosophy, Political science, Popular Culture, Psychology, Religion/Spirituality, Self-help, Social Work, Sociology, Women's studies
  Action/Adventure, General Fiction, General Fiction , Historical, Literary, Mystery/Thriller, Paranormal Romance, Prose, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Thriller/Suspense, Verse, Westerns, Women’s, Young Adult
  Bibliographies, Health Professions, How-to, Humanities, Literature, Narrative Nonfiction, Science, Self-help, Social Sciences, Technical/Medical, Memoir, Technology, True Crime, Young Adult
  Autobiography, Biographies, Blogs, Book proposals, Corporate communications, Creative nonfiction, Dissertations/Theses, Ebooks, Essays, Family histories, Journals, Magazines, Memoirs, Multimedia, Newsletters, Novellas, Novels, Poetry, Promotional materials, Reference materials, Resumes and cover letters, Reviews, Scripts, Short stories, Social media, Speeches, Textbooks, Training materials, Websites, White papers
  Adult, College, High school, New adult, Young adult
  English
  American Psychological Association (APA), Associated Press (AP), Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), Modern Language Association (MLA)
  Acrobat, Excel, Google Docs, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Word
  Yes
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