style & spine

style & spine

Scholarly developmental editing for writers, researchers, and academics.


Gain new insights into your scholarship and its possibilities, from conceptualization to publication–and beyond.


Style & Spine offers developmental editing and intellectual consulting services for writers, researchers, and academics, with an emphasis on work in the humanities and social sciences. Run by historian Shanon Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., its purpose is to provide authors with incisive feedback, supportive dialogue, and concrete action plans to help them reach the readers they want to reach.