From books and journals to online publications and other documents, Seattle-based freelance editor Amy Smith Bell offers a comprehensive range of editorial services. Clients are typically trade or scholarly book publishers, independent presses, nonprofit organizations, and individual writers.

Services include project management, manuscript evaluation, substantive and developmental editing, copyediting, proofreading, writing, fact-checking, and book proposal preparation and editing. Depending on the client's needs, manuscripts are evaluated, analyzed, and edited for clarity, consistency, and sense as well as for style, tone, and accuracy.

Amy specializes in historical scholarship as well as trade nonfiction (including the environment, health, humor, memoir, parenting, spirituality, and travel). Other interests include art, culture, current events / politics, fiction, music, poetry, and women.