Overview
Services
Non-Fiction
Languages
Certifications
- Editors Canada Copy Editing
Work experience
St. Johns Booksellers
Owned and operated a full-service, new and used neighbourhood bookstore. Selected new titles from publisher offerings each season, and identified the right used books to serve the diverse interests of my neighbours. Oversaw publicity, social media, marketing, author events, staffing, and finances.
Collectors Press
Edited and proofread manuscripts, including illustrated nonfiction and cookbooks. Wrote jacket copy for books. Requested and assembled promotional blurbs from appropriate sources. Communicated with authors and publisher. Located and secured artwork. Researched permissions for art and quotations. Prepared required Library of Congress deposit filings for new publications.
Self-employed
Edited, indexed, proofread, and performed bibliographic research for manuscripts, marketing materials, academic writing, and business correspondence for individual clients via word of mouth and online services. Recent book projects include The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien (Farnam Street, 2019), The Da Vinci Legacy by Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Heath Brown (Apollo Publishers, 2019), The Great Mental Models, Vol. 2 (Farnam Street, 2020), and Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women Celebrities and the Cultures of Human Rights by Dr. Samantha Pinto (Duke University Press, 2020).