- Known for preserving the author’s meaning—doesn’t intrude and alter the author’s concept.
- Edits for clarity, tone, and style as well as syntax.
- Can take complex information and turn it into identifiable experience.
- Ensures that content fulfills the client’s creative vision and supports objectives.
SKILLS SUMMARY:
- Copy editing and proofreading: manuscripts (fiction and non-fiction), book proposals to agents, business plans, RFPs, RFQs, marketing and strategic communications, press releases, newsletters, employee handbooks, speeches, feature articles, brochures, direct response copy, and content for the Internet.
- Web content authoring and management programs (e.g., HomeSite, FrontPage, and TeamSite), Microsoft Word using Track Changes Editing, the Chicago Manual of Style, AP Stylebook, and HTML.
EXPERIENCE:
- Manuscript copy editor and final reviewer: How to talk to a Darwinist (if you must) by John Egan; 14 chapters.
- Managing editor: Eppraisals.com’s online magazine for collectors of art and antiques.
- Web content manager: Near North National Group. Supervised the creative process for more than 50 revenue-generating web sites designed to market financial services and insurance products.
- Writer/editor: Swedish Trade Council. Created content for telecommunications, multimedia, ergonomics, health care, and information technology web sites and edited the annual World Headquarters Business Plan in English for publication in 160 countries.
- Sample contract writing/editing projects: Franklin Templeton, CNA Insurance, Dealersource.com, University of Illinois College of Medicine Research Magazine, and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Try me out for free! – Send a short piece and see what I can do! My rates are reasonable, and I am happy to work within your budget.
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