Editing & Writing: Skills & Experience

Expert-Level Editor & Writer: Technically Precise & Creative
• Editor and writer providing best-selling fiction novels and compellingly meaningful business content that is ready to publish.
• Projects are focused on meeting clients’ targeted content needs and produce results that matter.
• Years of overtime content strategy experience in applying fiction writing techniques, business empathy methods, and more.
• Extremely flexible yet highly focused editorial style built solidly on years of editing and writing both creative and technical manuscripts and providing comprehensive professional editorial reviews within multiple genres.
• Ghostwriting, editing, and proofreading countless creatively written novels, novellas, other book manuscripts, longer papers, and full reports.
• Active full professional member of ACES (American Copy Editors Society) specializing in American English to provide excellent story-line editing, writing, and proofreading.
• Delivering seamless editing and proofreading services while maintaining a crisp, clear, and author-consistent voice.
• Experienced and effective editor with an ability to deeply reach diverse and specific audiences through authors’ creative writing while expressively presenting an excellent command of the written English language in presentation of final content.
• Content writing, ghostwriting, developmental editing, and copyediting fiction content in novels, novellas, memoirs, young adult fiction and nonfiction, and other types of longer written works.
• Technical ability to redline editorial suggestions using Microsoft Word’s track changes feature; proofreading using notation with highlighting in other programs; converting Adobe’s PDF documents into MS Word and saving Word documents in PDF; editing directly in LaTeX through ShareLaTeX; changing text within HTML code; manually marking up hard copy or screenshots; and following CMOS, APA, IEEE, GPO, AP, and other style guide standards as reflected in clients’ manuscripts.
• Copyediting and proofreading content daily to improve and correct errors in grammar, punctuation, word usage, content consistency for overall flow, clarity, readability, and more.
• Editing, writing, and proofreading for publishable content by ensuring high-quality, consistently written, interesting, and highly readable manuscripts.
• Editorial manager and copy editor for the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction for five years, positioned text to precise literary standards and guiding publishing processes to ensure that contributions were written well and were clearly understandable for the publication’s readership.
• Performing editorial evaluations, developmental editing, and copyediting for authors to effectively target manuscripts for specific readerships, which leads to clients winning awards, authoring best sellers, optioning films, and signing contracts with business associates, agents, and publishers.
• Writing and editing content from initial review through copyediting and final quality control with proofreading, occasionally using publishing platforms as requested by author-clients.
• Editorial development of powerfully effective content while working for well-known creative authors, top-level business executives, and other experts to produce well-written content within meaningful story lines.