Longbourn Editorial Services
We are a small business, but we are able to build a team to handle large-scale, long-term projects.
Whether it’s full-spectrum content creation for a major educational publisher or proofreading your startup’s web content, Longbourn’s team of editorial professionals can handle it.
Our Services
Editing
Our editors refine your content to meet your expectations.
We specialize in readying your materials for publication according to the style, quality, and standards that you expect.
Proofreading
Our talented professionals have worked as proofreaders for several leading educational publishing companies as well as numerous online and print publishers.
We are dedicated to ensuring that your materials are error-free and an accurate reflection of the quality of your business.
Content Creation
We employ veteran educators, content experts, and writers who specialize in a variety of subjects to create high-quality content that meets your needs in an exemplary way.
Specialty areas include:
- STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
- Reading and Language Arts, including English learner (EL) development
- Social Studies
- Popular culture articles
- Website content
Additional Services
We can handle virtually any content creation.
Here are a few of our other services:
- Correlating content to national and state educational standards
- Checking functionality of digital content
- Fact-checking
- Indexing
- Style guide creation
Our Team
Susie Karya
Co-Founder
With over 15 years of experience in publishing, Susie has played a role in all facets of the product development process, from the creation of manuscript through final proofs. Susie uses her experience as a teacher of English as a foreign language (TEFL) as a basis for writing ELL materials for numerous educational products, and she has written mainstream student and teacher material for several reading and language arts programs.
She frequently acts as level editor, content expert, fact-checker, proofreader, and CCSS correlations expert.
Jessica Melfi
Co-Founder
Jessica lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and four young children. She holds a B.A. in English from Marietta (Ohio) College and an M.A. in English from Clemson University. Jessica spent the majority of her publishing career editing textbooks for educational publishers McGraw-Hill Education and Zaner-Bloser before joining forces with Susie to form Longbourn Editorial Services—a dream they have long discussed and finally made reality!
In addition to editing, Jessica enjoys teaching writing courses at a local university, exploring the Buckeye state, and cheering for her Cleveland Indians.
Clients of All Sizes
We consider all projects, regardless of size. We are comfortable working with the world’s largest educational publishers or solopreneur startups.
McGraw Hill Education
Zaner-Bloser
Ohio State University Publishing
University of Dayton Publishing
APH Press
ActivityConnection.com
Testimonials
I worked with Longbourn on an extremely complex project, and I am still in awe of the impressive project management and meticulous editing I saw consistently throughout. Their work was high-quality, prompt, and executed with the utmost of care; I cannot recommend Longbourn enthusiastically enough.
As an online company producing more than 400 pages of new content each month, we rely on the editing and writing expertise of Longbourn Editorial Services to help ensure the excellence of all our finished products. In the eight years they have worked with us, we have been consistently satisfied and impressed with their work in all areas of writing and editing and would recommend them without reservation.
As the editor of a small press, I rely heavily on outside vendors to help me address all facets of product development and production. When Longbourn is on one of my projects, I can depend on that work being completed reliably, well, and on time.
Hiring Susie was like cloning myself. She and her team did the quality of work I’d have done if I’d had the time. The work she and her team did was meticulous and did not require the rework that is common with many vendors. Longbourn is the best I have ever worked with.
Longbourn Editorial Services has been a standard for us for quite some time. We can always count on their accuracy and also their honest assessment of tasks and timelines. That is extremely important. I don’t want a group that says they can do anything and then under delivers. I want a group that I can trust. When they say they can complete something, I know I can count on them to be on time, thorough, and accurate.
McGraw-Hill Education has partnered with Longbourn Editorial on a range of projects for a variety of services–writing, editing, proofreading, and developing correlations to national and state standards. MHE relies upon the experienced and trusted staff of Longbourn to provide high-quality, professional work that never fails to meet both our deadlines and our expectations.