Overview
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Certifications
- Member, Editorial Freelancers Association, January 2015 to present
- Developmental Editing of Fiction: Beginning (Editorial Freelancers Association course, 2017)
- Developmental Editing of Fiction: Intermediate (Editorial Freelancers Association course, 2017)
- Member, American Copy Editors Society (ACES), January 2018 to present
- Introduction to Children's Literature (Editorial Freelancers Association course, 2018)
- Copyediting Fiction (Editorial Freelancers Association course, 2019)
- Editing Children's Picture Books (Editorial Freelancers Association course, 2021)
- Editing Young Adult Fiction (Editorial Freelancers Association course, 2023)
Work experience
Self-employed
I provide development editing, copyediting, and proofreading services for print and digital products on a freelance basis. Areas of nonfiction experience include health and fitness; food and cooking; hobbies such as crafts and music; education subjects such as history and religion; memoirs; test preparation; and business. Areas of fiction experience include children’s fiction, middle grade fiction, young adult fiction, short stories, and historical fiction.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
I acted as the main resource for every aspect of a consumer "For Dummies" book project after the book was contracted. I developed each book’s table of contents and text to meet vision and brand requirements; directed the writing and editing processes; managed the art program; oversaw the technical review; managed established project budgets; prepared each book for composition; and supervised editorial aspects of the composition process to ensure smooth and timely publication. As a senior project editor, I worked with high-profile authors and especially challenging text, and I provided training to other editors.
Scholastic Reading Counts!
Scholastic Reading Counts! is a technology-based reading motivation, management, and assessment system used in schools. I became the assistant manager of editorial operations in September 2000 and was promoted to manager of editorial operations in August 2002. My duties included making final checks of quizzes; training, supervising, and fielding questions from editors, writers, and second readers; creating and implementing procedures to improve work flow and quiz quality; overseeing special projects as needed; addressing and solving departmental problems and issues; and working with other departments such as marketing and book clubs.
Scholastic Reading Counts!
In addition to writing and editing quizzes, I assisted with the training of new quiz writers, provided feedback to established quiz writers and second readers, and worked on special projects as needed.
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