Resume
Experience/Skills
Freelance copyeditor and line editor working with authors, publishers, and book packagers since 2006
More than two hundred completed book-length projects, including
- general interest/informational books (art, film, health, history, leadership, music, personal finance, psychology, religion/spirituality, self-help, sports, women’s studies)
- memoir and biography
- educational texts for students and teachers
- professional and scholarly titles in the social sciences
- adult and young adult fiction (action/adventure, fantasy, sci-fi)
Since 2013, sole copyeditor for Rowman & Littlefield’s young adult nonfiction series It Happened to Me
Reputation for delivering a thorough edit at the requested level in the desired time frame
Well versed in The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.), and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.)
Edit in Microsoft Word using track changes, comments, and styles
Clients (selected)
Book in a Box
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
Steel Sports, Inc.
Trivium Test Prep Partners
Other Experience
Eighth Grade English Teacher, 1989–1999
Los Angles Baptist Middle School/High School, North Hills, California
Author, informational texts for grades 3–6
Example: Economies around the World (Heinemann-Raintree, 2012), selected by Junior Library Guild/SLJ Curriculum Levels
Author, biographies for grades 3–6
Example: Malcolm X (Heinemann-Raintree, 2013)
Author, YA informational text
Sports: The Ultimate Teen Guide (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)
Education
BA in English (magna cum laude)
University of California at Los Angeles, June 1988
Professional Memberships
Editorial Freelancers Association since 2007
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators since 2013