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Overview

 

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Freelance editorial consultant with 15 years of experience, specializing in copyediting, proofreading, substantive editing, and writing. Whether your product is a half-page postcard or a 300-page book, I'll work with you to polish it to perfection.

 

Copyediting and proofreading, 1992-present

 

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Marketing collateral: Websites, quarterly and annual reports, press releases, technical data sheets, catalogs, brochures, signage, employee handbooks, marketing playbooks, slide shows, and more; current clients include The Adlhoch Group, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chase Marketing Services, Chris Barnes Design, the Poetry Foundation, Skorman Productions, and Vinton Street Partners 

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Trade nonfiction: Scores of titles for book publishers across the country (a few examples: Book Lust; A Journey through Dorothy Parker’s New York; Three Among the Wolves); current clients include Against All Odds Productions, Island Press, The Mountaineers Books, Roaring Forties Press, and Sasquatch Books

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Periodicals: PhotoMedia, Seattle University Magazine, Virtuoso Life

 

Professional affiliations

 

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Bay Area Editors Forum (member)

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Northwest Independent Editors Guild (founder)

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University of Washington Editing Certificate program (board member)

 

Education and training

 

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B.A., political science, University of Oregon Honors College, 1986 (Phi Beta Kappa)

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Copyediting Fiction workshop with Amy Einsohn, 2003

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National Writers’ Workshop, 2004

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Conversant with The Chicago Manual of Style and The Associated Press Stylebook

 

 

      Contact: sherrischultz@earthlink.net or 415.297.5708 (cell)