The Record
Books I have developed
Titles I worked on as development editor — shaping the manuscript with the author from early draft through revision, rather than proofing it at the end. Most are still in early access, which is where a development editor's work actually happens.
Manning Publications
5
In early accessSpring Start Here, Second Edition
A foundations-first introduction to the Spring framework, working through practical projects across configuration, beans, web endpoints, and data access.
Development Editor
In early accessVibe Engineering
Best practices, mistakes, and tradeoffs
An end-to-end framework for the costs, benefits, and tradeoffs of AI-augmented software development — agentic coding through testing, validation, and deployment.
Development Editor
In early accessHidden Influences
How algorithmic recommenders shape our lives
How recommendation algorithms shape belief and behaviour across digital platforms, and what reclaiming personal agency actually requires.
Development Editor
In early accessWeb Component Development with Modern Libraries and Tooling
Building reusable, framework-agnostic web components on W3C standards, with Lit, FAST, and Stencil.
Development Editor
In early accessQuantization and Fast Inference
Optimising AI models through quantization for faster inference, lower memory, and cheaper deployment at minimal accuracy cost.
Development Editor
Independent clients
1Authors who hired me directly, outside a publishing house.
Fiction
This shelf is being built now
My paid editing credits are in technical books. I am taking a small number of fiction clients at reduced rates while I build a fiction list, and those titles will appear here as they publish.
Until then the honest evidence is my own writing and the developmental practice above — both of which you can inspect before spending anything.
Working on a book?
Send me a thousand words of it. I will edit them properly and send them back with real queries, free.