Beverly Michaels has taken great care with many of our projects, including books of great length and complexity. Our authors have praised her thoroughness, attention to detail, and consistency, noting her ability to improve each project significantly from its starting point and bring clarity to complicated historical subjects.

Danica Michels Hodge
Editorial Manager, Hoover Institution
Stanford University

Beverly Michaels is one of the best copyeditors I ever worked with—going into every detail and, at the same time, keeping the intended overall result in mind. She is devoted to Text and respectful to authors. A good team worker. She worked for two projects I headed at different times, a bilingual educational journal, Thinking Classroom/Peremena (Eng/Russian), and the Practical Dictionary of Siberia and the North (tr. from Russian).

Olga Varshaver, Translator
Moscow, Russia (via LinkedIn)

In 2015, Beverly Michaels edited for me and Yale University Press a bulky manuscript on the history of the Enlightenment in Russia. Beverly was meticulous, efficient, and sensible in handling editorial issues, and at every step she proved a joy to deal with. She’s far and away the best manuscript editor I’ve encountered.

Gary Hamburg
Otho M. Behr Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College

Beverly did a great job copyediting my lengthy manuscript. I accepted almost all of her suggestions. As I read her copyedits, I was greatly impressed by her work. She did a terrific job of eliminating repetition and tightening up the text, and she made the book read so much better. She was also very easy to work with.

Golfo Alexopoulos
Professor, Department of History
University of South Florida

Beverly is a knowledgeable and meticulous editor who did excellent work for us at International Literacy Association. Our project required a skilled editor who could take charge of a new quarterly journal published in Russian. Beverly’s responsibilities included corresponding with outside editors and authors in both Russian and English, coordinating print and Web publication of the journal together with its English counterpart, and reviewing copy/text at every level to ensure quality and accuracy. In each of these tasks Beverly displayed exceptional editorial and project management skills and consummate professionalism. It was a pleasure to work with Beverly, and I recommend her without reservations.

David Roberts
Former Executive Editor, Web and Special Projects
International Reading Association (via LinkedIn)