Overview
2024 Awards
Star of Wonder just won the Christy Award (Nov. 2024)! (Line editor.) Congrats to Crystal Caudill!
Heart in the Clouds won (Sept. 2024) the Caleb Award for adult fiction! (Devo and line editor.) Congrats to Jennifer Mistmorgan!
Memoir Beloved Outcast just won (Aug. 2024) Book of the Year in the Christian Market Book Awards. (Author coach, devo, line editor.) Congrats to Cherie Denna!
A Reedsy book, Every Night Has a Dawn (author coaching, devo, line edit) won the Regal Summit Book Award in historical fiction! Congrats to Rachel Valencourt.
The 2024 Christian Book Awards—Gold
-Two Rivers (devo, line)—congrats to Mike Henry!
The 2024 Selah Awards!
-Heart in the Clouds (congrats to Jennifer Mistmorgan)—2nd and 3rd
-26 Below (congrats to Kimberley Woodhouse)—2nd
-Unless You Turn (short story—congrats to Sam Blumenthal)—3rd
2023 Award Winners:
Carol Awards
-The Songs That Could Have Been (Congrats to Amanda Wen!)
Christy Awards
-When Stone Wings Fly (Congrats to Karen Barnett!)
Selah Awards:
-The Songs That Could Have Been (Congrats to Amanda Wen!)
-Circle of Vengeance (Congrats to Ramona Richards!)
Firebird Book Awards:
-Follow Me, Friend (Congrats to Cheryl Eriksen!) Follow Me, Friend also won the Writer's Digest 2022 Self-Published Book Awards. Go Cheryl!
Every year I have multiple authors on the major awards list!
Book editing is the most glamorous career in the world! (And eating red licorice while editing is even better ...) I edit full time for traditional publishers—including Kregel Publications and Our Daily Bread—and indie authors, and I served as managing editor of a Christian hybrid press for nearly five years, in which I oversaw a team of thirty-plus editors and typesetters. With more than 400 titles under my belt, I offer coaching, developmental editing, line editing, and copyediting. My authors, including independent ones, final in the major awards, and several books have gone on to win awards and/or become USA Today and Amazon bestsellers. A multiple-award-winning writer with more than a thousand published articles, I speak at writers' and editors' conferences nationwide. I also preview manuscripts for Kregel, plus I serve on the board of the Northwest Christian Writers Association, through which I offer multiple workshops.
I'm a hands-on editor, and my developmental edits cover the main elements of fiction (character, plot, pacing, structure, POV, theme, and voice) and anything else worth noting, and will have comments throughout the margin. With nonfiction, I cover author's message, author's goals, pacing, voice, and structure and format. With line editing and copyediting, I not only catch typos and other errors, but I apply the industry style guides (Chicago Manual of Style) so that your book reads as smoothly as any on a bookstore shelf. I take on a small number of new clients every year, and I'm particularly interested in working with authors who've studied their craft.
I graduated from the University of Washington with a double major in journalism and political science, and I'm a huge Seahawks fan—go Hawks! I look forward to chatting with you about your baby!
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Awards
- Distinguished Enterprise Reporting, Second Place
- Excellence in Journalism, First Place, Government and Politics, Inland Northwest
- Excellence in Journalism, Third Place, Government Reporting, Pacific Northwest
- Excellence in Journalism, Lifestyles Writing, Honorable Mention
- Excellence in Editing for Occasional Moments of Happiness (memoir), 2021
Work experience
Self-employed
I provide freelance editing services to publishers and authors. I offer content editing (with detailed editorial letters), line editing, copyediting, and proofreading. I'm an all-around editor—sees the big picture yet am extremely detail oriented.
Our Daily Bread
I typically provide line edits and deep comprehensive edits on Christian nonfiction devotionals and Christian living.
Kregel
Love project editing for Kregel! I provide thorough Developmental and line edits to help smooth out the story and flow, while delivering a full copyedit at the same time for line edits—I consider it my job to make the proofreader's job as easy as possible! Project editing includes setting up a detailed style sheet; a character sheet; and tracking the timeline, plot, character growth, and setting with a chapter-by-chapter synopsis.
Redemption Press
Managing editor was an exciting role! I matched authors with top-notch editors who were great fits for the MSS; internally reviewed all edits for quality control; mentored editors and authors; worked closely with authors and editors to usher MSS through the editing process; author coached, content coached, line edited, copyedited, and proofread, adhering closely to The Chicago Manual of Style and The Christian Writers Manual of Style.
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