Overview
My expertise includes Cozy Mysteries, Thriller/Suspense, Historical Romance, and True Crime. I’ve worked on projects for best-selling authors, such as Joanne Fluke, M. William Phelps, Janet Daily, Laura Levine, Fern Michaels, Kiki Swinson, and Lisa Jackson, as a freelancer for Kensington.
I’ve had a varied publishing career. At McGraw-Hill, I applied my skills to two award-winning reading programs: Open Court Reading and Reading Mastery. At Pearson, I spearheaded the production for Criminology, Policing, Corrections, and Police Management, working closely with authors Frank Schmalleger, Clemens Bartollas, Ken Peak, Cliff Roberson, Rick Seiter, and Paul Whisenand. At The American Chemical Society, I manage the day-to-day production of academic science journals.
My professional copyediting services include fixing spelling, grammar, punctuation, word usage, dialogue, and inconsistencies in point of view, tense, plot details, and character descriptions, as well as any follow-up, such as questions and clarifications. I edit in Microsoft Word using Track Changes.
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Self-employed
Copy edit and proofread mysteries, romances, westerns, contemporary fiction, biographies, and true crime.
The American Chemical Society
Manage day-to-day production duties for journal publications, publish 50+ peer-reviewed research papers per week, produce 25,000+ journal pages per year, expert editing skills in XML/HTML editing software (Arbortext)
Pearson Education/Prentice Hall
Managed project lifecycle for print and digital learning products for Criminal Justice, Policing, Paralegal, and Automotive, including copy editing, proofreading, budgets, schedules, vendor management, and author management.
McGraw-Hill Companies
Coordinated production of textbooks for K–12 market, copyedited manuscripts and proofread and copy-fitted page proofs, managed vendors, created and monitored schedules, supervised team of five production editors
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