Editorial Inspirations provides exceptional editing, indexing, and proofreading services to both publishers and authors.
The intent of the author and the publisher is always kept in mind—from the first word to well beyond the end.
12/10/2025
April Michelle Davis's young adult novel A Princess in Disguise is filled with life lessons to promote healthy growth. On the night of her sixteenth birthday and before her father has the chance to force her to marry a complete stranger, Princess Margaret sneaks away from the riches and safety of the palace. Torn between her fate and freedom, Princess Margaret desperately goes looking for her mother as the answer. In a quest of soul searching and physical hardships, the twist of events may take the readers by surprise, instilling a piece of the story in their hearts.
On the night of her sixteenth birthday—hours before her father forces her to marry a complete stranger at a grand ball—Princess Margaret sneaks away from the riches and safety of the palace. Torn between her fate and freedom, the soul-searching princess desperately looks for answers outside the ...
12/09/2025
This second edition of April Michelle Davis’s The Insider’s Guide to Expert Editing is chock-full of insights from experts in the field, with a focus on five manuscript service categories that every editor should consider for their arsenal:
Ghostwriting
Manuscript critiquing
Developmental editing
Copyediting
Proofreading
The Insider’s Guide to Expert Editing is a thought-provoking and beneficial book to refer to as a lead for new services and as a resource for your current services.
While there are many ways to work with words, no one person knows how to do it all. This second edition of April Michelle Davis’s is chock-full of insights from experts in the field, with a focus on five manuscript service categories that every editor should consider for their arsenal: A d...
12/08/2025
What is the best gift you’ve ever received?
12/08/2025
With the various types of punctuation, there should be some hard-and-fast rules for their usage, right? Well, there are. The problem that people have generally lies in either they don’t know the rules or they confuse American rules with British rules.
When in a quote, the period and the comma always go inside the quotation marks. They never go outside of the quotation marks because they can be easily lost and mistaken for printing errors.
Example: “I am going to the mall tonight.”
Not: “I am going to the mall tonight”.
Example: “Bob,” she said, “We need to be quiet in the library.”
Not: “Bob”, she said, “We need to be quiet in the library”.
12/03/2025
“If you had asked me two years ago, I would not have thought it was my responsibility. But I do think authors need to get involved with all sort of aspects of publishing and health of the publishing industry. This is not every man working for themselves, we need to think and work as a business. Authors have been protected for a long time, we are very well cared for, but we need to think about our other partners, from bookshops to publishing and self-publishing.”
—Ann Patchett, author and owner of Parnassus Books, Nashville, Tenn., in an interview with the Bookseller
12/02/2025
In “Ordered Conflict Resolution,” I revealed two ordered conflict resolution–enabling axioms: the APPGIT Constraint (only one perspective voice changes at a time, else the result is illusory) and the APPGIT Compliant Progression (must change the lowest order perspective voice, which enables quaternary order progression). Such ethics-based axiomatic resolution avoids APPGIT’s illusory consequences. More important, Ordered Relations Theory’s two axioms ultimately enable (individual: society) well-being transitivity inasmuch as they impound Social Choice Theory’s impossibility theorem, impossibility-resolving axioms, and all such further regressive impossibility theorems and impossibility-resolving axioms. Ergo, Axiomatic Social Choice Theory is concomitantly Axiomatic Ordered Relations Theory derived and regressively axiomatic theory empowering.
April Michelle Davis spent a month copyediting this academic paper, preparing it for publication. The manuscript was reviewed at the clause level, checking thematic organization at paragraph and sentence levels and checking for consistencies, errors, and omissions.
12/01/2025
I have come up with some tips to help you become familiar with the role of a copywriter and move the writing process along smoothly. Here is the third tip.
Experience within your industry isn’t always necessary.
When I was a copywriter, I heard many potential clients say, “So you’ve never written for a company before?” A valid concern, and one that can be overcome. A writer’s ability to write well for the medium is typically more important than her having prior experience in the industry.
Many writers are true generalists and write just as well for a media start-up as they do for a hospital network. Copywriters are very proficient at diving into the business, learning it inside and out, and churning out great copy to appeal to a target market. However, if you’re producing a technically oriented business-to-business website or marketing piece, you may want to hire a writer with experience in both your project’s medium and your industry.
I have come up with some tips to help you become familiar with the role of a copywriter and move the writing process along smoothly. Here is the third tip.
11/08/2025
Today at the Hanover Book Expo!
10/31/2025
If you could jump into a book and spend a day visiting that world and its characters, which book would you pick?
10/20/2025
October 20 – National Day on Writing. “Why writing? People in every walk of life, in every kind of work, and at every age write more than ever before for personal, professional, and civic purposes.”
10/20/2025
Writing Prompt of the Month
Late at night you awake to find your spouse not in bed. Exploring the farmhouse, you find that there are no lights on and the kids are still sound asleep. Past the fields, you see light shining through the barn windows. When you walk to the barn and open the door, what do you find?
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Editorial Inspirations provides editing, indexing, and proofreading for projects from newsletters and publications to manuscripts, both fiction and nonfiction. Through experience and training, April Michelle has developed her working style: get to know the needs of the author or publisher and help to develop the best writing to suit publication while being professional and pleasant.
April Michelle is the executive director for the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE), chapter coordinator for the Virginia chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), past-social media marketing expert for NAIWE, and past-chair and website administrator for the Mid- & South-Atlantic chapter for the American Society for Indexing. She has also published two books through the Editorial Freelancers Association, A Guide for the Freelance Indexer and Choosing an Editor: What You Need to Know. She has been a member of the EFA since 2005, a member of the American Society for Indexing since 2009, a member of NAIWE since 2010, a lifetime member of the American Copy Editors Society since 2012, and a contributing member of the Christian Proofreaders and Editors Network since 2013.
April Michelle frequently attends and speaks at workshops, conferences, book festivals, writers’ retreats, and colleges, including Agile Writers’ meetings, the Communication Central Conference, Duke University Writers’ Workshop, Hanover Book Festival, James River Writers Conference, Randolph-Macon College, RavenCon, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Virginia Women’s Press Conference, and Williamsburg Book Festival.
She has a master of professional studies degree in publishing (2008) from George Washington University and a bachelor of arts degree in English (2001) from Messiah College. In addition, she holds the following certificates: Editing (University of Virginia, 2003), book publishing (University of Virginia, 2003), and professional editing (EEI Communications, 2004).
Prior to starting Editorial Inspirations in 2001, April Michelle Davis worked as an assistant editor at the National Society of Professional Engineers and a program assistant for the American Prosecutors Research Institute.
