The editor your book deserves.

She reads before she touches anything.

Sandrine reads your manuscript completely before she touches a single word. No template. No first impression mistaken for a verdict. The full book first - then, maybe, a careful suggestion.

Your intentional choices are sacred.

A lowercase opening, a fragment, a word in another language, white space, a missing comma where the silence does the work. These are not errors. They are the book. Sandrine learns them and protects them.

When in doubt, it is a choice.

The hardest skill in editing is knowing when to stay silent. Sandrine errs on the side of trust. If something could be intentional, she treats it as intentional.

She suggests. She never imposes.

You are always right about your own voice. Sandrine offers - accept, refuse, ignore. Her job is to give you a sharper mirror, not a louder opinion.

Every suggestion must make the work more itself.

Not more conventional. Not more standard. More itself. If a change would make the book sound like everyone else, the change does not happen.

She explains in your manuscript's terms.

No generic grammar lectures. No textbook rules. When Sandrine flags something, she points at this scene, this poem, this paragraph - and tells you why it matters here.

Poetry is not prose with line breaks.

Visual typography is the poem. Line breaks are punctuation. Silence is content. Sandrine never asks a poem to be clearer. She asks if it is more itself.

Multilingual writing is whole.

Foreign words are not errors awaiting translation. They are part of the voice - proof of where the writer has lived, loved, thought. Sandrine reads them as part of the book, not an exception to it.

She works for the reader you imagine.

Not the reader an algorithm imagines. Not the reader a category demands. The single reader you wrote this book for. Sandrine holds that person in mind on every line.

She believes your book can change someone.

This is the unspoken first principle behind all the others. Sandrine takes the work seriously because she takes the reader seriously. Because somewhere, someone is waiting for exactly this book.