I edit and proofread a wide variety of material, including websites, advertisements and
marketing collateral, press releases, reports and proposals, brochures, catalogs,
slide shows, newsletters and magazines, and books. Below are some recent projects. Click an
image to learn more about the client.
Programs, reports,
manuals, brochures
Websites
Books
Periodicals
Programs, reports,
manuals, brochures
Commissioned to write the souvenir
program commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship in Washington, D.C.
Proofread a set of training manuals for excimer laser systems used in eye
surgery.
Have worked with the client, a Washington state design firm, for
eight years.
Proofread promotional brochure for Design for Wine & Food, a boutique design
firm.
Periodicals
Sole
copyeditor for this quarterly photography magazine for ten years.
Sole
copyeditor for Seattle University's alumni magazine for five years.
One
of two copyeditors for this bimonthly high-end travel magazine.
Websites
Copyedit new content each week for the website
of the Poetry
Foundation
in Chicago.
Wrote and edited content for the website of performance
coach Marc Miller.
Copyedited content for the website of Launch
Benefits, a financial planning firm.
Books
At
publisher's request, collaborated
with the author of the forthcoming memoir Forget Me Not: Summits of the Heart
to trim more than 10,000 words from the manuscript as part of the copyediting
process. The editor-in-chief
specifically requested my services because the edit would require tact and grace.
Copyedited
A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York, a travel guide and literary history published by Roaring Forties Press
of Berkeley; rewrote one chapter at publisher's request. Have copyedited six of
Roaring Forties' seven
ArtPlace titles.
Seattle's "rock-star librarian," Nancy
Pearl, is one of a number of authors who have requested me for their second
book after having me work on their first. I proofread Book Lust and
copyedited the follow-up, More Book Lust. Have worked with the publisher,
Sasquatch Books, for fifteen
years.
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to view a list of other
books I've copyedited or proofread.
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