LeeAnn Mohedano

Copyeditor & Proofreader

Elevating Your Writing Through Editing

Hi, I’m LeeAnn.

I’m a Chicagoland-based copyeditor who is passionate about helping writers communicate effectively and meaningfully with their audience. Whether you’re looking to improve reader engagement with marketing materials or elevate the quality of your manuscript, I have the experience and knowledge needed to help you achieve your desired results.

I earned my specialized copyediting certificate from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Extended Studies in March 2022. I had worked at the corporate headquarters of a financial services company—mostly in marketing—for over 20 years, starting as an administrative assistant and departing as a project manager. The pandemic and my approaching 50th birthday prompted me to assess my situation, and I decided to follow a different path. So far, no regrets.

I approach each project with collaboration in mind: this is YOUR manuscript, and I will make recommendations using my skills, knowledge, professionalism, and kindness to produce the best version of your document to share with your audience; as the author, however, you are empowered to weigh in on which suggestions you want to incorporate.

Services

Developmental Editing

Developmental editing is often the first step in working through a manuscript or other written content. This is the macro step, and serves to find potentially large plot holes and discrepancies in your story, often during or shortly after the first draft is written, and provides suggestions to address these challenges.

Copyediting

Copyediting occurs after developmental editing, focusing on mechanical style, which includes identifying and correcting or questioning (called querying) issues of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, punctuation, treatment of numbers and numerals, abbreviations and acronyms, use of italics and bold type, and treatment of special elements such as charts and lists.

Proofreading

Proofreading is the final step before sharing your work with your audience. This is the opportunity to polish and shine your prose, correcting any remaining typos, double words (e.g., the the or and and), grammar, punctuation, spelling, and formatting issues.

Why Ready Edits?

I have always loved words and reading. As a project manager at a financial services company, it was my responsibility to ensure corporate documents were clear, coherent, consistent, correct, and approved by the Law department before sharing with the public. I created and edited presentations for internal and external audiences and service communications to cardmembers. I helped identify risks and their mitigations for products and services that the company took to market. In 2021, I decided to leave corporate life and follow my desire to help others create the best version of their passion projects by enrolling in the copyediting certificate program through UC San Diego, Extended Studies. I would love to help elevate your manuscript into the best version possible. Contact me to schedule a time to discuss your project and see if we would be a good fit to work together.

Testimonials

I have had the distinct pleasure of knowing LeeAnn for well over 20 years. I can truly say she is a genuine, trustworthy person, and a devoted professional. LeeAnn has proofread countless writing projects of mine, and has always done so in a very timely manner. Her abilities in marketing and finance are exceeded only by her ability to work very well as part of a cohesive team, and I am honored to recommend her to anyone considering working with her.

Enrique M.

Director of Sales

LeeAnn Mohedano provided excellent copyediting services for my website. In my previous career prior to starting my own business, I worked as a professional business writer and did not expect LeeAnn to catch much. However, not only did she notice typos that I had missed, she shared a number of ideas for word and phrase changes to improve the overall quality and consistency of my content. As a result of her thoughtful suggestions, my website content has a polished feel to it that is helping me to communicate a professional and trustworthy online presence. I would recommend her services to anyone looking to take their written content to the next level.

Lee P.

Business Owner

[LeeAnn is] a thoughtful and caring copy editor who helps me get my message across through my writing by eliminating the distractions and confusing prose. You help me focus on the core message and normalize pieces that are clear to me, but might be confusing to my audience. You partner with me on this, letting voice come through, while keeping my own style where I think I need it. You don't force edits upon me, but you do make it clear which things are table stakes editing versus opportunities to improve or clarify the message. Thank you for all of your contributions!

Jack M.

Head of Software Engineering