Experienced former Time Magazine journalist with an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University at your service for developmental, substantive and line editing as well as ghost writing.

My specialty is working with financial, business and economic text. I edit with the writer’s style in mind and have an instinct for uncovering any factual or potential legal ramifications. Extensive experience interviewing noted figures in business and other fields, including James Robinson III, Walter Wriston, John S. Reed, Oscar de la Renta, Betsey Johnson, Perry Ellis, Floyd Abrams, jazz musician Frank Morgan, Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson, Michael J. Fox, and many others. Expert proficiency working with non-native speakers of English.

Adept at using Track Changes in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop and other editing tools. Familiar with the Chicago Manual of Style, AP, AMA, New York Times, and others.

I am professional, courteous and imperturbable and I never miss deadlines.

Current or recent projects include editing a weekly financial column written by a well-known economist and a lengthy financial how-to book written by investment guru Sheldon Jacobs.

Editing Philosophy:

"Editing should be...a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'"
--- James Thurber

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."
---Elie Wiesel

Rates upon request.

“I highly recommend Kathryn Fallon for a wide variety of editorial jobs.
In spring 2011, I hired Kathryn to edit a book I was writing. Good editors are hard to come by. They need to make corrections and improve copy without losing the author’s intent. This Kathryn did with great skill.
Over the years I have employed a number of editors. (I have published 23 books.) I don’t think I am exaggerating when I say that Kathryn was the best of all these people.
She will deliver for any organization smart enough to hire her.”
-- Sheldon Jacobs
Former Editor and Publisher, The No-Load Fund Investor newsletter

“I am very happy to recommend Kathryn Fallon. She edits my weekly economic reports and occasionally my economic papers. Her editing is accurate and she also makes constructive suggestions for improving my reports. She is really a perfect editor especially for non-native speakers of English and busy writers. Even though I have a demanding writing schedule, she has never complained and has always edited on time and she has never missed a deadline.
I totally trust her professional editing ability as well as her work attitude. I am always eager to see her edited versions of my reports."
-- Dr. Yuzo Kumasaka
Chief Economist

"The scrupulous and tireless reporter-researchers at Time magazine are legendary. But even among them there was an elite group whose work served as an example to their fellow researchers, writers and editors. Kathryn Fallon was in
that small number."
-- Stefan Kanfer
Former Senior Editor, Time and Published Author

Wealth Without Wall Street, by Sheldon Jacobs; April 2012, Wiley Books
TIME Magazine, Reporter, Writer, Researcher

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