About Your Proofreader

Typo Terminators is built around a simple kind of work: reading closely enough to notice what other passes missed, and correcting the error without flattening the voice behind it.

A Careful Reader by Trade and Habit

I’ve always been particular about words. I’m a wordsmith and a grammarian, with a strong interest in history and science and a habit of noticing things that don’t quite fit. That can be a useful trait in proofreading. A sentence may pass a grammar checker. Every word may be spelled correctly. And yet one of those words can still be the wrong one.

I’ve written for print media and today handle corporate communications, including newsletters and other business writing. Much of my working life has involved reading closely, writing clearly, and catching errors before somebody else does.

That work requires the same habits good proofreading does: attention to wording, consistency, context, and the small details that affect how a message is received.

Why Fantasy & Science Fiction?

I’ve been reading science fiction and fantasy since I was young, and I still read widely across the field—from hard and military SF to sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, romantasy, and the many subgenres in between.

That familiarity matters when a manuscript contains invented vocabulary, unusual capitalization, complex naming systems, technology, magic systems, or terminology that would look like an error to someone reading only against a dictionary.

A strange-looking word may be a typo—or it may be the name of a planet, a species, a weapon, a spell, or a piece of technology invented specifically for your world. A proofreader has to pay enough attention to the story to know the difference.

How I Approach a Proofread

The goal is not to make every writer or business sound the same. I read in context, flag what appears to be an error or inconsistency, and preserve intentional choices whenever the text supports them.

For fiction, that means protecting the author’s voice and the rules of the imagined world. For website and business content, it means protecting the established message and tone while removing avoidable distractions.

I particularly enjoy finding the errors automated tools can miss: homophones, repeated or missing words, punctuation slips, inconsistencies, and those troublesome words that are perfectly spelled but perfectly wrong.

What Are You Working On?

If you have a finished fiction manuscript, start with a free sample. If you have a website, business-content project, or select non-fiction manuscript, send the details and I’ll confirm whether it fits the service.