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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer

@kateleboff.bsky.social
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Neurodiverse. 🧠 Queer. 🌈 Providing editing (copy, line, developmental), proofreading, EDP-focused quality assurance checks, & fact-checking services. Writer ✍🏼📚. Owner & Operator of Leboff & Co. Publishing Services. Publishing industry for 8.5+ years.

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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To building something of my own. To doing good work without sacrificing the rest of my life to do it. And to becoming a little more unapologetically myself along the way. 🥳🧚🏻🦄🌺 And thank you, Dolly, for showing so many of us how beautiful that can be. 🦋💖
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Turns out, success is knowing yourself well enough to build a life that actually fits you. ✨ Like clothes, your life should fit you. You shouldn’t have to contort yourself to fit inside it. So cheers—with nonalcoholic champagne 🍾, of course—to almost one month fully freelance.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’ve been doing the harder work, too: being more honest about who I am/what I need. Unlearning old patterns. Having difficult convos. Showing up differently in my relationships. Making more room for friendship, family, community, my partner & dogs, creativity, music, nature, adventure, rest, & joy 🙏🏻
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In just these few weeks, I’ve built new relationships, landed new opportunities, joined new freelance pools, expanded my consulting work, worked with some wonderful people, & kept building a business—and a career & life—that actually fits me. But the wins I’m proudest of aren’t all professional. 🏆
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You could be underestimated, misunderstood, too much for some, impossible to neatly categorize—& still refuse to make yourself smaller, quieter, or duller. 💫💖 That feels esp true for me rn. Almost a month ago, I left the traditional 9-to-5 & took Leboff & Co. Publishing Services fully freelance.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Almost one month of NOT working 9 to 5. 😉🦋 I chose Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” for this video partly because of the irony & partly as an homage to a woman whose life and legacy meant a lot to me. Dolly showed generations of people that you could be unabashedly, unmistakably yourself.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Structure isn’t the opposite of freedom. It’s what makes freedom possible. (And yes…I own way too many sticky notes.) ✨ Always open to freelance publishing projects, collaborations, and conversations. 🌐 Leboff & Co. Publishing Services - www.linkedin.com/company/lebo... 📧 kate@leboffandco.com
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Leboff & Co. Publishing Services | 74 followers on LinkedIn. Where precision meets publishing excellence. | Leboff & Co. Publishing Services helps authors, publishers, universities, nonprofits...
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I don’t manage my time as much as I manage my energy and focus. Right now I’m juggling: 📚 publishing consulting 📖 editorial QA ✏️ proofreading 🩺 medical writing 🎨 typesetting 📈 business development Turns out my brain does its best work when I can decide when and where I work.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One thing freelancing has taught me: Freedom only works because of structure. As someone who’s AuDHD, I’ve stopped trying to force myself into someone else’s definition of productivity. Some days I’m at the gym before 7 and start my work day at 8. Some nights my best work happens from 5–11 p.m.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Excited for this next chapter. 🥳 Basically, if your manuscript or publication needs another (very detail-obsessed 😅) set of eyes, I’d love to help. This isn’t the start of my publishing journey but the next chapter. Website coming soon, but I’m officially open for biz! 📧 kate@leboffandco.com
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A fun milestone… I’ve officially launched Leboff & Co. Publishing Services. 💫 ✨ After 10+ years in publishing 📚, I’m now offering ✍🏼 editing, proofreading, editorial/design/production QA, ✅ fact-checking, manuscript evals, publishing/career consulting, sensitivity reads, & writing under my name.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I so get that! Yes please do! 💓
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Where can one purchase your artwork? I love this sm
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is stunning! 🤩
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The work will still be done on time, and it’ll probably be better because I worked w/ my brain instead of against it. 💫 🙏🏻 Freelancing hasn’t made ADHD easier. It has made it possible to build a career around how my brain actually works. 💪🏻 📚
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I think one of the biggest misconceptions about ADHD is that ppl w/ it lack discipline. For me, it’s almost the opposite 🧠✨ I am incredibly disciplined. I just need the freedom to work when my brain is ready to do deep, focused work. Tonight, I’ll probably work until 4 a.m. Tmrw, I’ll sleep in.
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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Get rid of this paragraph. Writers: Noooo! Absolutely not. You sir, have vexed me so fuck right off. Get rid of this character in the most gruesome way possible. Writers: Oh, so sad. Well, anyway... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife #writesky
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Finding out it was really a marketing tactic can be disappointing. A simple, honest introduction and a link to your portfolio goes much further than an unsolicited mockup. Transparency builds trust. Trust builds clients. ✨💫
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A small PSA 🗣️ for fellow freelancers: If your goal is to offer a service to an author or artist, be upfront about it. Don’t lead by pretending to be interested in their work only to pivot into an unsolicited sales pitch. As creators, we get excited when someone wants to engage w/ our work. 📚
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
For years I thought my mind wandered too much. Now I realize wandering is how I solve problems, tell stories, and connect seemingly unrelated ideas. My mind isn’t a maze. It’s a labyrinth. And I’ve finally learned to trust where it’s leading me. 💜
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A labyrinth has one winding path. It may double back and feel like you’re moving away from your destination, but if you trust the journey, it eventually leads somewhere meaningful. That’s what my brain feels like.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🧠 My mind isn’t a maze. It’s a labyrinth. 💫 As someone who’s AuDHD, people often describe neurodivergent minds as “scattered” or “all over the place.” That never felt quite right to me. A maze is built to confuse you.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
And one more thing: @sourcebooks.bsky.social has posted my former position, and I’d love to help them find a great person. I’ll share the job posting in the comments for anyone who’s interested. Reposts are hugely appreciated. 💖📚 #Publishing #Editing #Writing #Freelance #Proofreading
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who’s helped me get here. And to my team and the ppl at @sourcebooks.bsky.social who have been nothing but supportive and kind. If you know an author, publisher, nonprofit, business, or organization looking for support, I’d love an introduction or referral!
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Career update! 📚✨ After nearly a decade in publishing, I’ve resigned from my FT position at @sbkslibrary.bsky.social to focus on my freelance biz full-time. I’m available for: • Editing • Proofreading • EDP quality assurance • Writing • Sensitivity & reads • Publishing & career consultations
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Some of the best opportunities in my career started with a conversation, not an application. ✨ (P.S. I’m currently available for freelance editing, proofreading, EDP quality assurance, sensitivity reads, fact-checking, writing, and publishing/career consultation. DMs are open. ✍🏼📚)
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Applicants are increasingly using AI to polish applications. Employers are increasingly using AI to screen them. Somewhere in the middle, it’s easy for the human behind the application to get lost. Keep applying online. But don’t stop talking to people. 💫
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’ve noticed a pattern… Nearly every opportunity I pursued through an online portal ended w/ a rejection email or silence. Nearly every opportunity that actually went somewhere started w/ a conversation. 🫶🏻 An email. A DM. A virtual coffee. A referral. Reaching out to someone whose work I admire.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Very true. #BookSky
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thrilled to be serving as a judge for NovelBound’s First Chapter Contest! As an editor/author, I know how much heart goes into those first pages. I can’t wait to discover new voices & read your opening chapters. I’m honored to be working w/ @realjackiegm.bsky.social & @darthinternous.bsky.social!
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world’s spookiest weed puller @reflektion.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
i wish i could have a writing process other than “it gets revealed to me in batches of anywhere from ten to two thousand words at random intervals”
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💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters What did your character want to be when they grew up? Did they daydream about a future career or future adventures? How close did they get? Do they regret it or are they happier this way? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Having a lot of piercings is great for many reasons but one being that I’m basically a human fidget toy, & my AuDHD neurodivergent self needs that 🙏🏻 Is that just me or anybody else? 😆
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Typo of the day: ‘writing in agony’. It’s meant to be ‘writhing’ but the typo was deeply amusing to me. 🤣
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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
mythical creature #Cat #Caturday
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It is the best feeling. ✨👏🏻 I remember when I finished my first and that feeling was incredible itself but then having it accepted for publication was life altering! It only took me 10 years to get it pubbed lol. A contest I had submitted it into was how I got noticed. Keep on keeping on, writers! 💪🏻
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/06/2026
Amazing news: Thanh Tuan Phan, one of the people ICE sent to South Sudan last year, has been released. Source familiar tells me he has arrived in Vietnam, a place he left as a child in 1991. www.eyeradio.org/joyful-to-re...
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“Joyful to return home” – Vietnamese US deportee returns home after a year in South Sudan - Eye Radio
A 44-year-old Vietnamese national deported to South Sudan by the United States last year has been successfully repatriated after spending nearly a year in South Sudanese custody. Mr. Thanh Tuan Phan d...
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Funny enough I had serious arachnophobia for my entire life until I did exposure therapy for two years on myself, and now I really do like spiders but I gotta say… that fisher spider gave me the heebie jeebies a bit lol! But it was very cool! 🕷️
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 22/06/2026
hard magic systems....soft magic systems....secret third thing called "there are logical rules to the way everything works but the POV character simply isnt thinking about them so you, the reader, never get to learn them"
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wow, huge congrats! What an accomplishment ✨👏🏻
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Lol I love that. I just learned about semi-aquatic spiders this week! I was at my fav creek swim spot and saw what I thought was a wolf spider but, when it jumped in the water and swam away, I started second guessing myself and also was like 😱😳. It was a fisher spider! V cool but also kinda scary
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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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@nluewmist / I’m finally reading Dune. This quote which in the first few pages hit hard; “once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only let other men with machines to enslave them.”
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CMU Press @cmupress-ca.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Boston bookstore addressing the desperate need for actual BOOK REVIEWS: excellent news from @portersqbooks.bsky.social!
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
For everything you ever did my mom had a story about someone she who knew died from doing that exact thing. And this is why I am a writer today.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Happy birthday among the stars to the patron saint of us all, the great Octavia Butler.
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
always a w to write anything at all! a book after all is made word by word 😊 🥳
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
algae welcome to the resistance
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So much! 😮‍💨
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
She’ll make soup for a grieving neighbor, then disappear into the night to hunt monsters. She believes comfort is borrowed time. That if she ever let herself settle into it, someone else would pay the price. So she keeps one foot in hell, convinced that’s the rent she owes for everyone else’s peace
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Kate Leboff | Publishing Pro 📚 Freelance Editor ✍🏼 Writer @kateleboff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Adel sees “cozy” as something she’s protecting, not something she can have. Quiet mornings. Sleeping w/ the windows open. Walking home w/out looking over your shoulder. She’ll kill to preserve those things for strangers. She just doesn’t believe she’ll ever get to live inside them herself.
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