Caitlin Prozonic – Editor

I offer a variety of editing and writing services, such as developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading, as well as illustration reviews (especially for picture books and graphic novels).

Manage the production of books and other materials by overseeing and ensuring that Avenue A Books products are completed by authors, illustrators, designers, copyeditors, and proofreaders as necessary and coordinating schedules with authors, illustrators, designers, copyeditors, and proofreaders
· Complete development edits of book manuscripts, lesson cards, and other ancillary digital and print materials to ensure proper structure and content primarily for Avenue A Books and Fly Five imprints
· Review thumbnail sketches, ink sketches, and final color artwork for consistency, style, and content for Avenue A Books K–8 graphic novels
· Copyedit and proofread book manuscripts, digital and print materials for workshops, lesson cards, and other ancillary digital and print materials to ensure proper grammar and language usage, social-emotional learning (SEL) terminology usage, and formatting for Avenue A Books, Fly Five, Responsive Classroom, and Center for Responsive Schools imprints
· Review portfolios of potential writers and illustrators for Avenue A Books
· Fact check as necessary
· Promoted from Editor/Writer to Project Editor in November 2019

· Managed the production of book sets and other materials, such as lesson cards, online resources, or promotional materials, by overseeing and ensuring that products are completed by Editorial and graphic designers as necessary and coordinating schedules with both teams for efficient production
· Edited educational literacy materials and book manuscripts developmentally to ensure proper structure and content
· Copyedited and proofread various print (books, lesson cards, promotional signs, marketing postcards, etc.) and electronic (online resources, website materials, email newsletters) materials for proper grammar and language usage, proper literacy phrasing, and to ensure correct formatting as determined by designers and development team
· Fact checked nonfiction manuscripts and details of historical fiction manuscripts
· Managed freelance copy editors, proofreaders, and project editors
· Wrote manuscripts for book sets
· Promoted from Associate Project Editor to Project Editor in January 2018

· Copyedited and proofread electronic and paper-based teacher certification test items to assure quality of spelling, grammar, Chicago style, Pearson writing style, and comprehensibility
· Reviewed formatting of test questions to be officially implemented into testing database (CERTS) and to be reviewed at committee conferences
· Reviewed grammar, style, comprehensibility, and formatting of framework documents that outline objectives for specific teacher certification tests
· Communicated with test question writers to ensure fidelity of test question when copyediting
· Communicated with word processors to ensure fidelity as test questions were migrated from question-writing software to CERTS, paper-based tests, and computer-based tests
· Ensured proper quality of computer-based teacher certification tests
· In computer-based tests, ensured that all technology functioned properly and all functions were present
· Ensured fidelity that all questions for tests were present and appeared as necessary when paper-based tests were
converted to computer-based tests