I have a master's degree in history and archival studies, as well as an editing certificate offered jointly by The Poynter Institute's News University and ACES: The Society for Editing. While my editing experience ranges from corporate product manuals to fiction, my expertise is general nonfiction and academic writing for clients such as Penguin Random House and SUNY Press. I am also the founder and editor of Brush Talks, a journal of nonfiction about China. In that role, I have performed extensive developmental editing, copyediting, fact checking, and proofreading.
I likewise have considerable research experience. Archival management was a component of my graduate studies, and my employment as an archivist included stints at the Shelburne Museum and the University of Massachusetts library. I am currently writing a book about the life of a medical missionary to China based on over five years of research, including much archival digging in several repositories. I bring all this experience to each job, offering you professional editing and research at reasonable rates.
Helping you develop the manuscript’s ideas, structure,
and overall approach for the intended audience.
Rewriting and reorganizing sentences and paragraphs to
strengthen the piece and to better fit the tone and style.
Editing for usage, grammar & spelling mistakes;
correcting references; and formatting the manuscript.
Finalizing your document by fixing
remaining errors, typos & formatting issues.
Hire me to do your research in the New York metro area.
New York City has a rich array of libraries and archives,
and I will be your research assistant when you can't get there in person.
They say the art of copyediting is dying; they haven’t met Brian Kuhl, sharpest and most tactful of editors whose light but firm hand saved me from many an error.
I found [Brian] after my first paper was criticized and refused by the journal’s reviewer. . . . After the editing, my article was accepted . . . [and] my boss (professor) appraised and said the language is very native. Later, I have Brian edit all of my papers that I want to get published, and the reviewers don’t reject me because of the bad writing.
The corrections are very professional. The editor not only corrected the errors, but also helped me change the wrong expressions, select the more proper ones, and try to make me express my ideas logically, clearly, and orderly in the whole paper according to the entire context.
