Published: April 1, 2024

Synopsis: Professional figure skater Nina returns to her hometown as she recovers from an injury, and finds herself coaching two young budding skaters, Olivia and Grace. To her greatest surprise, their brother turns out to be her old high school crush, Adrian.
When she learns that her team’s nationals falls at the same time as the girls’ upcoming competition, she struggles to make the right choice. Does she abandon her team and risk losing her scholarship, or does she abandon the girls just when they need her most and lose the new family she’s found?

Genre: Romance
Audience: Young Adult

Available in: Paperback & eBook
Pages: 168

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This second project also took place through Fiverr. For this project and the next one, I created a custom order for Libana to cover all our bases and ensure her mansucript was the best it could be before publication.

The Process

The process for Icebound Hearts was the same as with The Perfect Men. This book also has Romance as its primary genre, though it has a secondary figure skating plot that ran underneath.

I began copyediting by using Find & Replace to once again ensure Canadian spelling and root out any trouble words. I checked punctuation, removing unecessary spaces and tabs, and replacing primes with proper quotation marks.

Then came the reading. Since I was providing both line editing and copyediting for this book, I read through the manuscript twice, first with a focus on line editing aspects of the work: tone, syntax, language, and readability. If there was a spelling mistake here and there, I fixed that as well. The second time through was also read aloud, in which I fixed any technical errors that were previously missed. I looked extra closely at the punctuation and usage of the words, rather than listening to the flow and readbility.