Book Editor | $90/hr | Remote

The Ai Training Company; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ai Training Company is seeking experienced Senior Book Editors and Publishing Professionals for a Remote AI project focused on high-quality manuscript editing. You will contribute to editorial judgments across fiction and nonfiction, providing developmental feedback and detailed revision recommendations.

Responsibilities include evaluating narrative structure, voice consistency, and audience fit, while drafting editorial letters and refining quality standards in a fully remote setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in book editing, developmental editing, publishing, manuscript development, or closely related editorial role
• Significant experience editing professionally published books
• Exceptional command of written English
• Strong understanding of grammar, syntax, literary style, and narrative structure
• Ability to provide sophisticated developmental and line-level feedback
• Strong judgment across long-form content
• Ability to identify subtle narrative and stylistic problems
• Ability to preserve an author's voice while improving effectiveness
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment
• Comfortable providing and discussing nuanced editorial recommendations

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze fiction and nonfiction manuscripts
• Provide developmental and structural editorial feedback
• Evaluate narrative structure, pacing, clarity, and organization
• Review author voice, tone, style, and consistency
• Perform advanced line editing and copyediting
• Identify weaknesses in plot, characterization, argument, or narrative progression
• Evaluate thematic continuity across long-form manuscripts
• Identify gaps, contradictions, repetitions, and structural problems
• Recommend meaningful revisions while preserving the author's intended voice
• Review manuscript positioning and potential audience fit
• Evaluate whether content aligns with genre and reader expectations
• Draft detailed editorial letters, margin notes, and revision recommendations
• Create and refine editorial guidelines and quality standards
• Identify cases where edits are technically correct but weaken voice or meaning
• Collaborate asynchronously with project stakeholders and other editorial experts
• Communicate nuanced recommendations through both written and verbal channels

Skills

Editorial judgment

Developmental editing

Line editing

Grammar & style

Narrative structure

Voice preservation

Remote collaboration

Communication

Attention to detail

Job description

Senior Book Editors, Developmental Editors & Publishing Professionals. Remote AI Project

We are seeking experienced Senior Book Editors, Developmental Editors, Acquisitions Editors, Executive Editors, Copy Editors, Line Editors, and Publishing Professionals to contribute to an advanced AI project focused on high-quality manuscript editing and editorial judgment.

What You’ll Do

• Review and analyze fiction and nonfiction manuscripts
• Provide developmental and structural editorial feedback
• Evaluate narrative structure, pacing, clarity, and organization
• Review author voice, tone, style, and consistency
• Perform advanced line editing and copyediting
• Identify weaknesses in plot, characterization, argument, or narrative progression
• Evaluate thematic continuity across long-form manuscripts
• Identify gaps, contradictions, repetitions, and structural problems
• Recommend meaningful revisions while preserving the author's intended voice
• Review manuscript positioning and potential audience fit
• Evaluate whether content aligns with genre and reader expectations
• Draft detailed editorial letters, margin notes, and revision recommendations
• Create and refine editorial guidelines and quality standards
• Identify cases where edits are technically correct but weaken voice or meaning
• Collaborate asynchronously with project stakeholders and other editorial experts
• Communicate nuanced recommendations through both written and verbal channels

Who Can Apply

Relevant backgrounds include:

Senior Book Editors, Book Editors, Developmental Editors, Executive Editors, Editorial Directors, Managing Editors, Senior Editors, and Commissioning Editors.

We also welcome:

Acquisitions Editors, Line Editors, Copy Editors, Substantive Editors, Structural Editors, Content Editors, Manuscript Editors, and Freelance Book Editors.

Publishing backgrounds may include:

Trade Publishing Editors, Literary Publishing Professionals, Academic Publishing Editors, Independent Publishing Professionals, Editorial Consultants, Publishing Consultants, and Editorial Freelancers.

Literary backgrounds may include:

Literary Editors, Literary Consultants, Book Doctors, Manuscript Consultants, Manuscript Evaluators, Literary Scouts, and Literary Agents with substantial editorial experience.

Writing backgrounds may include:

Published Authors, Novelists, Nonfiction Authors, Ghostwriters, Book Collaborators, and Professional Writers with extensive experience editing or developing other authors' manuscripts.

Additional relevant backgrounds include:

Editorial Project Managers, Publishing Managers, Content Directors, Editorial Leads, and Publishing Executives who remain closely involved in manuscript development.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in book editing, developmental editing, publishing, manuscript development, or a closely related editorial role
• Significant experience editing professionally published books
• Exceptional command of written English
• Strong understanding of grammar, syntax, literary style, and narrative structure
• Ability to provide sophisticated developmental and line-level feedback
• Strong judgment across long-form content
• Ability to identify subtle narrative and stylistic problems
• Ability to preserve an author's voice while improving effectiveness
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment
• Comfortable providing and discussing nuanced editorial recommendations

Preferred Background

• Senior editorial experience at a recognized publishing house
• Experience working with prominent or established authors
• Editorial involvement with bestselling books
• Editorial involvement with award-winning or critically recognized books
• Experience across multiple fiction or nonfiction genres
• Experience performing developmental editing and line editing
• Experience managing books from manuscript through publication
• Experience with acquisitions or commissioning
• Experience leading editorial teams
• Experience reviewing work produced by other editors
• Experience working directly with authors through multiple revision rounds

This opportunity is ideal for senior editors who can read a manuscript and quickly understand what the author is trying to accomplish, where the manuscript succeeds, where the reader experience breaks down, and which revisions would create the greatest improvement without erasing the author's individual voice. We are a referral partner of the client