company history

A decade of service. We have been provding quality editing services since 2001. Owned by E. Geiss -- an editor, art historian, and professional writer -- Red Pencil Editing Services works with a variety of clients -- big and small, individuals, corporations, and non-profit organizations. The company originally began in Boston as a freelance job when Geiss was a graduate student. In 2003, the company moved to Michigan, created an Internet presense and grew into being a full-time, full-service professional editing company. Red Pencil Editing Services is run by E. Geiss, author of The Right Words for Any Occasion (Publications International, Ltd. 2008) and other texts both in-print and online. Geiss is a current member of the Association of Art Editors (AAE) and other professional organizations and a former member of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES). Geiss has edited or proofread hundreds of thousands of pages of copy throughout her often-overlapping carrers in writing, editing, and art history. More... 


snapshot of
our work

Red Pencil Editing Services has worked with or works with the following selected clients:

Selected Corporate/Organizations

  • 4Steps2.com

  • Alteris Group (Farmington Hills, Mich.) 

  • Boyd Communications (Farmington Hills, Mich.) 

  • Cengage/Thompson-Gale (Farmington Hills, Mich. offices) 

  • The Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History (Detroit, Mich.) 

  • Marrow Transit (Williamsburg, Virg.) 

  • Michigan Suburbs Alliance (Ferndale, Mich.)

  • Southern Great Lakes Symphony Orchestra 


Selected Individuals/Small Businesses 

  • Jay Arrington, "Fashion Guy" 

  • Capers Tavern & Eatery, Allen Park, Mich. 

  • Center for Healing Arts, Detroit Mich. 

  • Jennifer Gniadecki, author of Non-Toxic Networking: from Poisonous to Popular 

  • Galen Pauling, author of the Q.T. Pie Stories 

  • Craig Pepin-Donat, international health and fitness expert and author of The Big, Fat Health and Fitness Lie

  • Pasco Verducci, author of The Little People from Peranium and Miracle on Charles Street 

Selected Projects Worked on by Red Pencil Editing Services:

  • Winning Spirit, the quarterly newsletter for BASF's Automotive Refinish Department through Boyd Communications

  • Metaldyne's annual calendars through Alteris Group Visteon annual report throgh Alteris Group

  • Educational Guide for the Charles H. Wright Museum's exhibition And Still We Rise: Our Journey through African American History

  • Monthly Membership Newsletter for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History

  • The Big, Fat Health and Fitness Lie 

  • The Little People from Peranium

    Miracle on Charles Street

  • Non-Toxic Networking: From Poisonous to Popular by Jennifer Gnaidecki

    The Q.T. Pie stories 

Company history continued...
Founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2001, Red Pencil Editing Services started out as a secondary profession for Managing Editor, Erika Geiss, a Brandeis University and Tufts University alumna and Art Historian. In its early years, Red Pencil Editing Services concentrated on serving on the academic community on texts written by students and established scholars.

The joy of editing and simultaneously becoming increasingly frustrated with observing the decline of the English language while out and about had a snowball effect, and the projects that the company took on, grew in size and scope. In 2003, after moving to Michigan, Red Pencil Editing Services gained an Internet presence and increased our client base to include business professionals, corporations and aspiring writers while still serving the academic community. 

In late 2004, the company became an LLC and unveiled a new graphic identity. By 2005 Red Pencil Editing Services had assembled a team of freelance editors and proofreaders (the Red Pencil Editing Services wordsmiths) to regularly work with the company's growing client base. In 2007 the company added express editing services on a limited basis and in January 2008 Red Pencil Editing Services added providing content to its projects. In April 2008, Red Pencil Editing Services lauched a new and improved Web site in order to provide its clients with more streamlined and efficient transactions. In 2009, the company added light design services to its options on a limited basis. In 2011 Red Pencil Editing Services got a make-over, and unveiled a new website and logo. Red Pencil Editing Services continues to provide value to its clients and customers, helping them make sure that it's right before it gets published.