Overview
I'm a copyeditor and proofreader with more than ten years' experience editing many genres in fiction (fantasy, historical fiction, YA, picture books, and early readers) and nonfiction (biographies, cookbooks, academic essays, and personal health/fitness). I've even written and edited content for exhibitions at a Holocaust museum. The Chicago Manual of Style is my primary guide, though I also use AP.
As a copyeditor at Tanglewood Publishing, I focused on Young Adult fiction, books for middle readers, and picture books. I worked with author Mike Mullin, whose award-winning dystopian ASHFALL series should make us all wary of the potential eruption of Yellowstone's supervolcano. I was also proud to copyedit SURVIVING THE ANGEL OF DEATH, the biography of Auschwitz death camp survivor Eva Kor, whose story of perseverance and healing has touched the lives of millions of people around the world.
In addition to Eva Kor's biography, I have edited other Holocaust-related literature and materials. Sharing the stories of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides is especially important to me.
During my years at Wish Publishing, I focused my editing skills on works of nonfiction, polishing diverse manuscripts on fitness and exercise, and on people and places of local interest in the Midwest.
I enjoy collaborating with veteran authors as well as those working on their first manuscript. I am a thoughtful editor with a keen sense of a writer's voice. I believe each project has the potential to expand our understanding and inspire imagination. I look forward to working with you.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Middle Grade
Young Adult
Languages
English (US)
Portfolio
In this third Blackbeard book, a madcap adventure tale of four teens' journey across the Atlantic and into Westminster Abbey to return some very old pirate loot, the deeper questions surrounding the strange sandstone with mysterious powers are gradually reveal... read more
In this new leg of a wild adventure, the kids follow the trail of the loot under hot pursuit, a trail that leads halfway around the world and to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. But this adventure uncovers a far deeper mystery, which begins with the discovery... read more
Months have passed since Marcus and Kelvin succeeded in their quest to find the Rock of Ivanore. Kelvin is living as royalty in Dokur, and Marcus is studying magic with Zyll. When Fredric is murdered and Kelvin becomes king, Zyll and Marcus head for Dokur in h... read more
The annual Great Quest is about to be announced in Quendel, a task that will determine the future of Marcus and the other boys from the village who are coming of age. The wizard Zyll commands them to find the Rock of Ivanore, but he doesn’t tell them what the ... read more
In this coming-of-age story set in a medieval kingdom, Andrea is a headstrong princess longing to be a knight who finds her way to modern-day California. But her accidental return to her family's kingdom and a disastrous romance brings war, along with her disc... read more
This edgy novel about a diverse group of teens who commandeer a sailboat and support themselves by pirating during one summer full of adventure and discovery, is also a subtle yet powerful novel of awakening, of coming to grips individually with the issues the... read more
Moving is hard on everyone, but especially children. Chester Racoon, whom readers have come to know and love through the New York Times bestseller The Kissing Hand, and its sequel, A Pocket Full of Kisses, is facing another dilemma common to the lives of many ... read more
In this latest addition to the Kissing Hand book collection, Chester Raccoon must learn to deal with another common problem of childhood: a bully at school.When Mrs. Raccoon learns that there is a bully problem at school, she decides to investigate the situati... read more
Fencing is not just a lot of swinging from chandeliers or leaping from balconies. That’s just the stuff of movies, all drama and high jinks. Fencing is much, much more. There’s something so thrilling when you enter a fencing academy and you hear the tap-tap of... read more
The Complete Martial Arts Student examines the learning process and gives the martial arts student hundreds of examples and solutions to problems he or she will encounter during training. More importantly, the aim of the book is to start the student on the roa... read more
What is the meaning of Shiva dancing on a dwarf named Avidya? Why does Vishnu sleep upon an endless snake? To what did the Buddha awaken? What do we mean by soul? The practice of Yoga has become quite common and popular in the West; however, the stories of Yog... read more
Coach Tom Crean has brought the storied Indiana University Hoosiers basketball program back to national prominence by taking an unranked team at the beginning of the 2011 season all the way to the 2012 Sweet Sixteen. Indiana University coach since 2008, the st... read more
Only one man, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon, is officially deemed the World's Greatest Athlete. As an orphan who has never met his biological parents, as a recovering alcoholic, as the subject of a timelessly infamous advertising campaign, as the ... read more
Travel the Whiskey Trail and around the country with whiskey professor Bernie Lubbers as he reveals the history and process of making and selling America's native spirit. Sharing his homespun Kentucky wisdom and outrageous whiskey adventures Bernie engages the... read more
[Read by Paul Michael Garcia]Four Americans - a young social outcast, an Army officer, a ruthless US senator, and a guilt-ridden heiress - find their destinies interwoven during World War I and, climactically, in the Western Front's vicious aerial combat.
What better way to celebrate the wonderful world of nature all around us than a hunt for local fairies? Children learn to spot the tell-tale signs of fairies in residence in this delightful mix of photos and illustrations. Then children can take their tracking... read more
Maddie's mother agrees to send her daughter to a new camp - Wolf Camp. But when Maddie returns, she seems, well, changed. She snaps at flies, howls at fire trucks, and chases squirrels - on all fours. She quits eating candy and starts eating meat - only meat. ... read more
Sophie and her brother are excited by the arrival of Hanukkah, and they happily clean the cottage and shine the Menorah as their gift to the family. But when their mother shares her worry that they do not have enough cooking oil to last eight days, their fathe... read more
Argyle Fox, with his signature style, wants to play outside on a springtime day, but the wind is wreaking havoc with his fun and games. As soon as he builds a card tower, climbs into a giant spider web, or takes up his pirate sword, here comes the wind: Woosh!... read more
Chengli is an orphaned errand boy who lives in Chang'an China in 630 A.D. His mother has died from illness and his father is presumed dead after disappearing into the desert when Chengli was a baby. Now thirteen, Chengli feels ready for independence. He is dra... read more
Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele and subjected to... read more
The Yellowstone supervolcano nearly wiped out the human race. Now, almost a year after the eruption, the survivors seem determined to finish the job. Communities wage war on each other, gangs of cannibals roam the countryside, and what little government surviv... read more
It's been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It'... read more
Many visitors to Yellowstone National Park don't realize that the boiling hot springs and spraying geysers are caused by an underlying supervolcano, so large that the caldera can only be seen by plane or satellite. And by some scientific measurements, it could... read more
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