Linda Ruggeri | Bilingual Nonfiction Editor 🔗 www.theinsightfuleditor.com | 📍 Napa Valley, CA | 🌐 English | Español | Italiano
I’m Linda Ruggeri, a bilingual nonfiction editor and author coach with 15+ years of experience supporting authors, publishers, and editorial teams on publishing projects in English and Spanish. As a bilingual nonfiction editor and author coach, I specialize in helping writers shape engaging, heartfelt, and polished manuscripts that resonate with readers and publishers alike.
✍️ What I Do Memoir & Prescriptive Nonfiction Editing – Developmental and line editing for personal stories with emotional impact and narrative clarity.
Spanish & Bilingual Copyediting – Fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian. I help ensure your bilingual or Spanish manuscripts are grammatically correct, culturally appropriate, and publication-ready.
Cookbook Editing – I help chefs and food writers present clear, appetizing, and well-organized recipes that showcase their culinary voice.
Gardening Books – With a passion for the garden, I bring a green thumb’s understanding to editing content related to plants, sustainability, and nature.
Travel & Lifestyle Nonfiction – From city guides to personal travelogues, I polish content for voice, structure, and reader appeal.
✨ What I Offer Full-service editing: Developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, manuscript styling, self-publishing guidance, author coaching.
Project management: I help authors and production editors stay on track with clear editorial plans, budgets, and timelines.
Bilingual editorial support: Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish copyediting, translation reviews, and multilingual manuscript editing.
📚 Credentials & Community Member and Guest Speaker for the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA - since 2018) Member of Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA - since 2021) Member and Guest Speaker for the Professional Editors Network (PEN - since 2019) Member and Guest Speaker for the Publishing Professionals Network (PPN - since 2020) Founder of The Networking Studio, a paid membership community supporting freelance editors
Collaboration: Comfortable working independently or with publishing teams, hybrid presses, indie publishers and self-publishing authors.
📚 Awards & Published Works
🏅 IBPA Book Award Finalist (2025) for Networking for Writers: Practical Strategies for Networking Success | Author | (professional & technical category)
🏅 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal Winner (2022) for Networking for Freelance Editors | Co-Author |
📗 Mastermind Groups for Editors – A popular resource guiding editors on building peer support networks | Co-Author |
📗 Network Building (A Signature Course for Editors) | Co-Author | The Networking Studio
📗 Red Pens & Handshakes: Network Like a Pro! (minicourse) | Author | The Networking Studio
🌍 About Me Born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Córdoba, Argentina. Have traveled extensively through Europe, lived in Italy (7 years), Canada, and the beautiful US Midwest. Napa Valley, California, is my new home.
Degree in Communication & Fine Arts (Cum Laude), Loyola Marymount University Studied Journalism at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina Fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian
Voracious reader, traveler, baker, cook, gardener and national parks aficionada.
💬 Let’s Connect I offer a complimentary 30-minute consultation to discuss your editing or publishing needs. 📩 Schedule a call with me at www.theinsightfuleditor/book-online, or or contact me at linda@theinsightfuleditor.com
ChatGPT, Copilot, Atticus, Dubsado, QuickBooks, Circle.so, MailerLite, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Editors Toolkit, PerfectIt, MS Suite, Canva, PDF markup Tools, Slack
AI for Editors Course with Erin Servais Copyediting (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) EFA, with Lourdes Vernard Developmental Editing with Jennifer Lawler Efficient Editing (CIEP)
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