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A recommended editor, proofreader, corporate and technical (plain language) writer, transcriptionist and mentor with over 40 years’ experience in all areas of editing and proofreading (both fiction and nonfiction, marketing collateral, magazines, text books, children’s and young adult’s literature, websites, etc.), acquisitions, compiling style sheets and glossaries, fact checking, typesetting (DTP)/layout, transcribing, writing and designing manuals and online help, and managing online event and calendar databases. Several of my books and magazines have won writing awards, and I have judged literary competitions. Proven skills in corporate and technical communication, layout and design, and presenting seminars and workshops. Member of the Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC).
Editorial Skills
- Copy editing
- Abstracting
- Acquisitions
- Canadianization
- Consulting and manuscript evaluation
- Desktop publishing
- Developmental or project editing
- Editing translations
- Layout and design
- Online editing
- On-screen editing
- Proofreading
- Plain language
- Structural and substantive editing
- Stylistic editing
- Rewriting
- Writing
- Mark-up and coding
- Research and fact-checking
- Translation French to English
- Production editing
Media / Genres
- Abstracts
- Academic books and monographs
- Academic materials general
- Academic papers and essays
- Advertising and marketing materials
- Anthologies
- Bibliographies
- Blogs
- Booklets
- Books art and photography
- Books children
- Books general
- Books self-help
- Books self-published
- Briefs précis and executive summaries
- Brochures
- Business materials general
- Catalogues
- Conference materials
- Cookbooks
- Correspondence
- Curriculum guidelines
- E-books
- E-materials general
- Educational materials general
- Fiction
- Fiction mystery
- Government materials general
- Guidebooks
- Hand-written materials
- In-house publications
- Labels and packaging
- Magazines
- Manuals and how-to books
- Multimedia
- Newsletters
- Newspapers
- Periodicals general
- Pictures and illustrations
- Plays and screenplays
- Poetry
- Policies and procedures
- Proposals and evaluations
- Public relations materials
- Reference materials general
- Reports annual
- Reports other
- Résumés and CVs
- Speeches
- Study guides
- Style guides
- Surveys
- Teachers
- Tests and assessment materials
- Textbooks elementary and high school
- Trade non-fiction
- Transcripts and minutes
- Websites
Subjects
- Aboriginal people
- Administration
- Animals
- Archaeology and ancient history
- Arts
- Biography
- Business
- Canada
- Cinema
- Communications
- Construction and real estate
- Culture
- Ecology and environment
- Energy mines and natural resources
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Europe
- Family
- Food and drink
- Gardening and horticulture
- Geography
- Handicrafts
- Health
- Health and medicine general
- Health care
- History
- History Canadian
- Humanities general
- Indigenous
- Industry and manufacturing
- Industry and technology general
- Information technology
- Leisure general
- Life sciences
- Lifestyles
- Literature
- Medicine alternative
- Music
- North America
- Outdoor recreation
- Pedagogy
- Religion and spirituality
- Social sciences
- Society general
- Sports
- Technology
- Transportation
- Travel and tourism
- United States
Working Languages
- English
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