Brookeline specializes in the editing of non-fiction book manuscripts.

Professional Book Editing:  Affordable editing and proofreading is important for writers and authors. Your book manuscript is editing "without getting in the way" of your writing style or your story. The goal is to help improve the quality, clarity and cohesiveness of your work. Manuscripts are carefully reviewed to identify and correct mistakes in grammar, punctuation, format, spelling, style consistency, sentence structure, transition between paragraphs, and more. The quality of your writing becomes enhanced while preserving your unique voice and style. Attention to format and layout also becomes a part of the editing process that enhances the reader's ease of reading and retention of information from your book. 

Non-Fiction:  The non-fiction genre is comprised of books that are considered true (not fantasy or fiction) and are generally about real things, people, events, and places. Often they are descriptive or instructional in nature. Types of non-fiction include retelling of actual events, biographies, how-to manuals, and textbooks. 

Brookeline's non-fiction specialties:  Brookeline's non-fiction specialities for editing and publishing include health and healing, home interiors, spirituality and intuitive thought, bio-science, families and society, and sociological trends.

Textbooks:  Brookeline participates in the editing and production of educational materials including textbooks.

Brookeline's Manuscript Critique Process: 

1. Read key portions or all of your manuscript to determine topic, flow and general readability,
2. Comment on a wide range of writing issues such as grammar, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure, transitions, and more.
3. Give examples where certain other techniques might be used for greater success.
4. Assess your writing style for clarity and depth vis-a-vis your intended audience.
5. Discuss how your manuscript would work as a book (i.e. what features are working and are there any other features that need to be developed).
6. Estimate the time for full editing and format production.
 

Mary P. Brooke, B.Sc., Cert PR of Brookeline Publishing House Inc. is committed to working with and building the editing profession.

Active member of the Editors' Association of Canada (2007 to present).

Wrote a course called Working With An Editor which she teaches to self-publishing authors at the Monterey Center (Oak Bay Rec) in Victoria, BC (2007 to present).

Set the standard for more readable and attractive real estate marketing materials in Greater Victoria, BC particularly during 1993-1999.

Wrote and taught the inaugural 36-week curriculum of Writing for Business and Journalism for the Western Academy of Photography, Victoria, BC (1992).

Co-founded the Professional Editors Association of Vancouver Island (PEAVI) (1990-1991).

Became qualified as a Hansard editor (1982).

Was awarded the McGeachy Prize in Journalism from the English Dept., Univ. of Sask. (1981).