Overview
I'm a freelance publishing professional providing copyediting, proofreading, development, content, and manuscript prep. I specialize in academic texts and supplements, but have experience in other areas as well. I am also an experienced, registered yoga teacher with knowledge of the wellness and fitness world. I'm hoping to work on some academic projects and to perhaps also marry my yoga and wellness world with my editing and writing skills. I offer a wide range of publishing services having worked in many areas and on several subjects. If you're looking to put together a book, I can help you in the process.
Services
Non-Fiction
Education & Reference
Humanities & Social Sciences
Certifications
- Certificate in Editing from NYU
Work experience
Self-employed
Aug, 2016 —
Present
Work on editing projects of various types as they are available. I have edited a poetry text, based in spirituality and a yoga text on anatomy as it relates to the energetic body.
Self-employed
Feb, 2008 —
Aug, 2016
(over 8 years)
Freelance publishing professional with extensive experience in proofreading, copyediting, project management, and quiz-writing in college-level texts and supplements.
I began my career as an editorial assistant in the Psychology group at Worth Publishers, now an imprint of MacMillan US. While there I advanced to assistant editor and then moved from Psychology to help grow our new Custom Publishing department in the hard and soft sciences. I spent two years there building the program, creating and providing custom texts and supplements for colleges and universities. In that role I was involved in every aspect of the texts we created: from developing ideas with professors and sales reps, helping to create new custom content, editing existing texts into custom texts, to working with design and production through to printing and shipping until we had texts on shelves. With this breadth of knowledge I left the company full time and began freelancing. My freelancing experience was also diverse - prepping manuscript, copyediting and proofing texts, research and statistical representation, editing and writing testbanks, lecture slides, and instructors' manuals, and training in, managing authors for, and editing interactive online learning supplements from inception to live product.
I would love to bring my diverse publishing knowledge to your project. While I have a strong background in academics, especially psychology, I would love to expand into other areas. I am an experienced registered yoga teacher, a mother, and have a degree in Creative and Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a Certificate in Editing from NYU.
Macmillan Learning
Jul, 2001 —
Jan, 2008
(over 6 years)
Helped to build the custom program at Freeman and Worth. Managed custom projects from proposal through to published product on the shelves by working with the sales team, instructors, editorial, production and printing, and book stores. Involved in every aspect of custom books, media, and supplements including budgeting, marketing, writing and editorial, production, and shipping.
Portfolio
This remarkable new textbook offers a fresh approach to the study of social psychology, integrating theory, research, and applications into a coherent, contemporary portrait of the field that no other available text can match.Drawing on over 50 years of combin... read more
Centered around five distinctive perspectives, Jordan's Fundamentals of the Human Mosaic organizes content around culture region, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural interaction, and cultural landscape.
Peter Gray's evolutionary perspective and emphasis on critical thinking have made his rigorous yet accessible introduction to psychology a widely respected classroom favorite, edition after edition. Now thoroughly revised, with the help of new co-author David ... read more
Edition after edition, Kathleen Stassen Berger’s bestselling textbooks connect all kinds of students to current state of developmental psychology, in an engaging, accessible, culturally inclusive way. Berger’s Invitation to the Life Span does this in just 15 c... read more
The Developing Person through Childhood & Adolescence by Berger,Kathleen Stassen. [2011,9th Edition.] Hardcover
