For 25 years, Book Magic has helped authors polish and strengthen their manuscripts through copy editing, manuscript evaluations, and proofreading. With extensive experience in a wide variety of genres, we provide the expertise and attention to detail needed to strengthen your writing while respecting your unique voice and vision.
Whether you’ve written a gripping mystery, an epic fantasy, a heartfelt memoir, a business book, or a children’s story, Book Magic offers the editorial guidance to help you refine your manuscript and get it ready for publication.
You might be wondering if professional editing is still necessary now that AI tools can quickly fix errors in grammar and punctuation.
AI can be a helpful tool for catching basic errors, but it can’t understand your voice, your message, and what you’re trying to achieve as a writer. Writing that’s heavily edited by automated tools can lose some of its warmth, personality, or natural tone.
This is especially important for fiction and memoir, where voice really matters. A memoir should sound like you—not like something polished into generic, impersonal writing.
We keep your natural voice intact while improving clarity, flow, and correctness so your manuscript still sounds like you—just stronger and more polished.
While we work with all genres of fiction and nonfiction, Book Magic has a special appreciation for memoirs, autobiographies, and personal life stories, especially those shaped by meaningful or complex experiences. Of course, we also work with authors whose stories aren’t defined by hardship. Every life has turning points, and memoirs come alive through how those moments are told. We help all writers shape their experiences into engaging, honest narratives that feel true to their voice.
Book Magic is affiliated with several respected publishing houses in Canada and the United States, including Baico Publishing, FriesenPress, and TotalRecall Press. These relationships reflect our familiarity with both traditional and self-publishing paths, and help us guide authors as they prepare their work for submission or publication.
Chief editor Sigrid Macdonald works alongside Maeve O’Connell and Dian Yu. The company has attracted clients around the globe for more than two and a half decades. Book Magic will discuss your unique needs by phone, text, FaceTime, Zoom, WhatsApp, or email. Team members are based across North America.
Meet the Team
Sigrid Macdonald is the author of four books. Her first book, Getting Hip, became an Amazon bestseller. It has sold more than 20,000 copies.
In addition to working with private clients, Sigrid has been a freelance consultant for ten publishing companies. She is currently affiliated with Hasmark Publishing International in southern Ontario, FriesenPress in BC, Baico Publishing in Ottawa, and Jumpstart Publishing in San Francisco.
Sigrid has a BA in psychology, graduating summa cum laude, from Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey, and did graduate studies in social work at the University of Toronto. She is a member of Editors Canada, the Canadian Authors Association, the Editorial Freelancers Association, and Ottawa Independent Writers, and has spent many years with Toastmasters International and Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Maeve O’Connell has a commercial background in marketing communication. For 14 years, she worked in newspapers and the film industry, creating advertisements, some of which won awards.
She has a BA in communications, an MA in film studies, and an MBA. She has a Graduate Certificate in Scriptwriting from Algonquin College, a Certificate in Publishing from Toronto Metropolitan University, and is a member of Editors Canada.
Maeve has worked with Book Magic since 2015 on a wide range of materials, including academic papers, children’s books, self-help manuals, and thrillers.
Dian Yu has published her work in the short-story anthology Pot-Pourri, The Varsity, and the Ottawa Citizen. She loves reading and hopes to polish every piece she reads to perfection. Dian graduated with a degree in pharmacy from the University of Toronto. She has worked as a copy editor with Book Magic since 2009 and currently practices as a pharmacist in the pain management department at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).
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