Overview
Because most of my editing career has been in editorial management, my list of published titles is brief. But I'm now branching out into freelance editing, and I'm ready to help your manuscript come alive! I'm comfortable editing Christian fiction, Christian nonfiction, general market nonfiction, and children's titles.
In addition to my book editing work, I'm a sought-after writer and editor in the web content and content marketing space, where I've learned to craft high-quality, engaging content that performs and converts.
Edited titles include Heritage Studies 3 and Writing & Grammar 10 from BJU Press, including student editions, teacher editions, and ancillary materials, as well as the teacher edition for American Literature. I've also completed an editorial assessment on a yet-to-be-published children's book from a local religious nonprofit. I served as managing editor for a recent revision of Companion to College English, also from BJU Press. I've also written and edited over a thousand web articles, blog posts, and whitepapers for hundreds of content marketing clients.
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Awards
- Rookie Award, BJU Press, 2014
Work experience
BJU Press
-Hire and train new editorial staff in editing procedures, house style, best practices, and more
-Assign projects and balance workload among editorial team
-Work with the leadership team to refine and update processes and workflows
-Oversaw significant growth, from 14 to 24 staff editors
-Direct reports include a proofreading supervisor and a policy and process supervisor, in addition to the editorial pool
-Maintain house style documentation and make recommendations for updates (delegated to policy/process supervisor beginning fall 2020)
-Directly edit some smaller items, including marketing materials and errata reprints
Self-employed
-Have written over 2 million words, mostly articles and blog posts, on a range of topics, mostly in technology, music, and religion/spirituality
-Numerous editing and proofreading clients
BJU Press
Edit textbook and ancillary materials through every stage of the publication journey, including the following:
-developmental editing
-copyediting
-production editing
-interacting with proofreaders and making judgments on their marks
-reviewing postproduction proofs
Work with a project team on revisions spanning 12 to 24 months
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