Patricia Heinicke

Patricia Heinicke – Editor

I provide careful, intelligent, and sensitive copyediting, developmental editing, ghost writing, and coaching services.

Overview

I am currently booked through October 2023. Thereafter, I will be accepting projects in Western history and Indigenous studies only.


A freelance editor since 1996, I work with authors writing in the biomedical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, providing whatever level of work is necessary: from line, substantive, and developmental editing to complete rewriting and ghost writing. I also work with independent authors, and I offer author coaching and workshops in grammar, copyediting, and self-publishing.

Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs History Humanities & Social Sciences Medicine, Nursing, & Dentistry Religion & Spirituality
Languages
English (AUS)

Work experience

Patricia L. Heinicke Jr.

Sep, 1996 — Present

I work with traditional publishing houses as well as corporate, nonprofit, and individual clients on books, journals, abstracts, and web content.

Westview Press

Jul, 1995 — Sep, 1996 (about 1 year)

I worked with a senior editor acquiring in international studies, anthropology, gender studies, and economics and had primary responsibility for developing the religion list. Responsibilities included manuscript solicitation and evaluation, contract negotiation, developmental and line editing, author care, and coordination with the marketing and production departments.

Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley

Nov, 1992 — May, 1994 (over 1 year)

I provided developmental editing and copyediting services to graduate students.

Central Florida Community College

Sep, 1987 — Jun, 1991 (over 3 years)

I taught history, humanities, and social science courses, co-chaired curriculum development and division exam committees, and authored and directed several grants.

Portfolio

Charles C. Painter

Valerie Sherer Mathes

Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833–89), clergyman turned reformer, was one of the foremost advocates and activists in the late-nineteenth-century movement to reform U.S. Indian policy. Very few individuals possessed the influence Painter wielded in the mov... read more
While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offer... read more
The California frontier wars gave land and gold to Whites and reservations to the few surviving Native Americans. Through eyewitness accounts this highly researched work brings to light the graft, greed, and conflicting roles played by the US Army, the State L... read more
Alaska: A History

Claus M. Naske

The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched... read more
Many of us have sought insights from the experience of ancient cultures for the kind of wisdom that impacts and transforms our lives in the modern world. Johnson leaves nothing to abstraction in the connections he makes between the microcosm of his inner world... read more
Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn and his celebration of his Kiowa ancestry, The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday has also made his mark in theater through two p... read more
In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more ... read more
In these journals, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, a well-known chronicler of western history and an authority on Plains Indians, provides an important account of conditions in Indian Territory from 1878 to 1880, a period of rapid transition.The Cheyenne-Arapaho... read more
On a wintry morning in 1952, young Lt. Arthur L. Haarmeyer reported for duty in Korea as a B-26 bombardier-navigator to Colonel Delwin Bentley, Commander, 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, K-9 Air Force Base, Pusan. Haarmeyer was immediately challenged by t... read more
Shortly before Wyoming’s Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip of the United States Senate, he decided to keep a journal. “I am going to make notes when I get home in the evening, as to what happened during each day.” Now the senator’s longtime chief of st... read more

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Nancy E.

Nancy E.

May, 2017

While we are still in the process of working together, I found Patricia to be easy to work with and patient with the unusual nature of my project. She is knowledgeable and professional in every way.

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