Overview
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Certifications
- B.A., University of Toronto
- Certificate in Arts Administration/Cultural Management, Humber College
Work experience
Self-employed
I'm a certified professional editor and a member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders.
I've edited family histories and business memoirs, speculative and science fiction, mystery and romance novels, children’s books and self-help books. I’ve also edited case studies examining public administration, municipal policing, energy grids and public-private partnerships and written summaries and introductions for many of them, applying plain-language principles to help my clients effectively communicate complex ideas to their non-specialist readers.
I enjoy working with first-time authors and have a special interest in stories of entrepreneurship—in how people come to make things and how they develop their ideas. I’ve interviewed people who design modular-component bridges, manufacture bagpipes, harvest and market wild rice, grow nut trees, are developing plastics from potatoes, managing construction noise and increasing diversity on non-profit boards.
I've written travel articles and children’s books that I’ve also illustrated with fabric appliqué, polymer clay and pen and ink. For many years I ghostwrote a popular newsletter for a California psychic.
EDITING: FICTION & MEMOIRS
• Geoffrey Kiggundu, The Girls Take Control (2018): https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Take-Control-Geoffrey-Kiggundu-ebook/dp/B07CRL8DNW
• Geoffrey Kiggundu, Frenemy Matriarchs (2016): https://www.amazon.ca/Frenemy-Matriarchs-Geoffrey-Kiggundu-ebook/dp/B06VSFWPGS
• Rita Baker, A Girl Named Pet (young adult fiction, 2017);
• Rita Baker, Tova Tovarah (historical fiction, 2015);
• Rita Baker, Of Bonds and Bondage (contemporary fiction, 2014): https://www.amazon.ca/Bonds-Bondage-Rita-Baker/dp/1420885650
• Ed Curnutte, Aydy’s Fiddle (historical fiction, 2016): https://www.amazon.ca/Aydys-Fiddle-Memory-Edward-Curnutte-ebook/dp/B01LZ3E2Y8
• Pernille Fischer-Boulter, Tales from an Immigrant Entrepreneur: One Woman's Story (memoir, 2015): https://www.amazon.ca/Tales-Immigrant-Entrepreneur-Womans-Story/dp/1460287770
• Marcy Erb, The Swordbearer (fantasy adventure, 2015)
• Jacqueline Snyder, Fear Nothing (science fiction, 2015)
• Sandra Fleming, ECMOdays (memoir, 2014)
• Maria Trautman, The Path (memoir, 2014)
• Jennifer Kaplan, Follow Me Now (contemporary fiction, 2014)
• Leonide Albert, Memories of Miramichi (memoir, 2010)
• Bruce Harvey, The Portal (science fiction, 2010)
• Lanny Miller, Stone Time (science fiction, 2009)
EDITING: GOVERNMENT & NONPROFIT
IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance, University of Toronto Press (editing)
• Off and Running: Canadian Government Transitions, Prof. David Zussman (2012)
• Deputy Ministers in Canada, Prof. Jacques Bourgault, ed. (2013)