About

Jane Mackay.

I founded Meridian Editorial to do one thing well: bring accomplished people to a book they are proud to publish. Nineteen years inside nonfiction manuscripts taught me what holds and what fails at the level of the sentence, not only the concept.

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Jane Mackay, founder of Meridian Editorial

Hi, I'm Jane Mackay. Even after almost two decades of editing and ghostwriting, I still find deep satisfaction in helping someone say exactly what they mean.

I work with demanding professionals carrying complex frameworks and significant ideas, and I understand how ideas expand once you try to articulate them in writing. I bring precision, care, and genuine interest to every project, because I want you to publish a book you are proud to put into the world.

Background

Nineteen years, since 2007.

I have spent nineteen years as a freelance copy, line, and language editor specializing in nonfiction. My territory is nonfiction books and research papers across the social sciences and the humanities, business and marketing communications, memoir, and academic and multilingual editing for peer-reviewed publication. I have ghostwritten a full-length authored book, demonstrated and attested by a client I have worked with for around ten years.

The skill that sits closest to what my clients need is this: translating complex, technical, or niche expertise into prose a broader readership will actually engage with, without thinning what made it expert. That is rare. It is the through-line across all three of the services Meridian Editorial offers.

I am based in Europe. My primary client base is in the United States. All engagements run remotely, and real-time problem-solving across time zones is a feature of the service rather than a constraint on it.

Where the work has appeared

Peer-reviewed research and trade publishing.

A sample of the journals and publishers my editing work has appeared with. It is institutional credibility, and it travels with the Editing line.

Journals

International Review of Public Administration
Korean Social Sciences Journal
Korean Public Administration Review

Publishers

Penguin
Taylor & Francis
Columbia University Press
University of Exeter Press
Management Concepts Press
Watershed Media

What sets the work apart

Why clients choose Meridian Editorial.

01 · Depth

Nineteen years inside nonfiction.

Working knowledge of what holds and what fails at the level of the sentence, not only the concept.

02 · Translation

Expertise made readable.

Complex or niche expertise turned into prose a wider readership will read, without thinning the expertise.

03 · Ownership

The book stays yours.

Your voice, your account, your ideas, owned outright. Across Legacy Authorship and Editing, my own line and copy edit on the result. No hand-off, no loss of context.

04 · Posture

Built for the decided.

A practitioner who is not trying to convince anyone of anything. Built for the person who has already decided to write the book.

What I'm building

An institution, not a one-person operation.

Meridian Editorial is not built to remain a single desk. The long-term intent is a boutique firm with a curated team of specialist freelance editors and writers, with me in a directorial role: setting standards, holding client relationships, and overseeing quality. The brand institutionalizes the reputation. It does not replace the person at its center.

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Legacy Authorship and Book Coaching begin with a thirty-minute call. Editing begins with an email.

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