Barb Feldman - Editor

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)

Frenemy Matriarchs

Mr. Geoffrey Kiggundu

Merab doesn’t want to marry. The husband chosen for her is an older farmer with three children of his own. To object doesn’t cross Merab’s mind, however. She respects and obeys the limited roles Ugandan tribal culture gives to women. To do otherwise would be to deny centuries of culture. Unlike Merab, Ruth rails against the limitations of being a woman in a world where men hold all the power. ... read more

Merab doesn’t want to marry. The husband chosen for her is an older farmer with three children of his own. To object doesn’t cross Merab’s mind, however. She respects and obeys the limited roles Ugandan tribal culture gives to women. To do otherwise would be to deny centuries of culture. Unlike Merab, Ruth rails against the limitations of being a woman in a world where men hold all the power. ... read more