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Website: preeneditorial.weebly.com
Profile
Hi there! My name is Melody and I have 20 years of experience in editing, writing, and desktop publishing.
I started Preen Editorial and Content (my freelance editing and writing business) in 2016, after working in full-time editing and writing positions for various companies.
I love meeting new clients and learning about their businesses, projects, and goals as much as I love continuing to build strong working relationships with my current clients.
My goal is to work collaboratively with clients, ensuring I ask the right questions and understand their needs, so they receive the final product they’re expecting. I offer reasonable rates and fast turnaround, as well as flexible availability wherever possible.
My editing and writing experience is wide-ranging, as I have tackled such subjects as building construction, health and wellness, agriculture, religion, real estate, and human resources services, to name a few.
Most recently, I have completed assignments such as editing a short e-book on self-care, writing a retirement announcement, editing a proposal for HR consulting services, writing content for a wellness newsletter, crafting social media content for a dairy association, and writing an article about a local organization that is helping to bring swaths of tall grass prairie back to urban areas.
Some of my past projects have included television scripts, marketing materials, small newspapers, magazines, trade publications, research reports, proposals, business plans, web content, product packaging and labelling, technical and how-to manuals, and business correspondence.
My educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Linguistics/Rhetoric and Communications from the University of Winnipeg, as well as a diploma in Creative Communications (journalism major) from Red River College.
I would love to hear how I can make your next editing or writing project a success!
Editorial Skills
- Copy editing
- Desktop publishing
- Developmental or project editing
- Consulting and manuscript evaluation
- Layout and design
- On-screen editing
- Online editing
- Plain language
- Proofreading
- Research and fact-checking
- Rewriting
- Structural and substantive editing
- Stylistic editing
- Web adaptation
- Writing
Media / Genres
- Academic materials general
- Advertising and marketing materials
- Blogs
- Booklets
- Books general
- Books self-published
- Brochures
- Business materials general
- Catalogues
- Conference materials
- Cookbooks
- Correspondence
- E-books
- E-materials general
- Educational materials general
- Government materials general
- Grant applications and fundraising
- Guidebooks
- Fiction
- In-house publications
- Labels and packaging
- Magazines
- Manuals and how-to books
- Newsletters
- Newspapers
- Periodicals general
- Plays and screenplays
- Policies and procedures
- Proposals and evaluations
- Public relations materials
- Reference materials general
- Reports annual
- Reports other
- Résumés and CVs
- Speeches
- Study guides
- Style guides
- Subtitles
- Surveys
- Tests and assessment materials
- Transcripts and minutes
- Websites
Subjects
- Administration
- Arts
- Biography
- Business
- Communications
- Ecology and environment
- Construction and real estate
- Culture
- Earth sciences
- Economics
- Entertainment
- Family
- Finance and taxation
- Food and drink
- Gardening and horticulture
- Government
- Grammar and linguistics
- Health
- Health and medicine general
- Health care
- Humanities general
- Industry and manufacturing
- Information technology
- Labour and employment
- Leisure general
- Life sciences
- Lifestyles
- Literature
- Psychology and mental health
- Society general
- Travel and tourism
- Technology
Working Languages
- English