Brent Casey Cavin

I am a Marine Corps veteran, a husband, and a father of three teenage daughters — writing and editing from the Carolina Piedmont. My friends and family call me Casey, and you're welcome to as well.

I served nine years as an aircraft electrical and flight control systems technician, deployed to Japan, Afghanistan, and the Pacific aboard the USS Makin Island, and made it to the rank of Sergeant before coming home to North Carolina to be present for my family. What I've learned is that staying is its own kind of discipline — and that kindness, practiced steadily, is its strongest form.

Today I co-own Luna Creative Marketing with Darling — herself a Columbia-educated writer working toward her own first book — build things with my hands when I can, and write about a life lived in full: service, marriage, fatherhood, grief, injury recovery, music, craft, and the slow practice of being present through all of it.

I also work with other writers on their manuscripts — mostly self-publishing authors — as an editor. Developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, proofreading. The work of helping someone shape a book they are serious about is its own quiet privilege. More on that here.

Alongside my own writing, I take on editorial work — mostly for self-publishing authors writing serious books they want to make as good as they can be.

Developmental editing at the structural level. Line editing at the sentence. Copy editing for correctness and consistency. Proofreading for the final pass. Offered in sequence or individually, depending on what your manuscript needs.

I work best with writers who want a specific kind of engagement: honest, thorough, and respectful of the book they are trying to write — rather than the book I would write in their place. My rates are meant to be reasonable. This work is a privilege, not a gold rush.

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