Debbie Burke is an award-winning editor who is an expert in the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) (18th ed.) and MS Word Track Changes. Highly intuitive and thorough, she prizes the author’s voice, whether providing copy editing, line editing, developmental editing, or self-publishing coaching.
Burke’s career has included being a news writer, three-time columnist, tutor, advertising copywriter, and the editor of a business journal and lifestyle magazine. Today, as founder and owner of Queen Esther Publishing, she edits manuscripts, queries, synopses, etc. for small publishers, ghostwriters, indie and represented authors, and a university press. From fiction to nonfiction, academic editing to mass market editing, she provides peerless craftsmanship for all genres.
Burke is a member of the EFA (Editorial Freelancers Association), the Authors Guild, ALLi (the Alliance of Independent Authors), ACES: The Society for Editing, the Authors Guild of Tennessee (where she serves as the Membership Chair), the Baldwin County Writers Group, the Write On! Nonfiction Group, the Jazz Journalists Association, Pensters, Virginia Beach Writers, and the Chesapeake Bay Art Association.
