I’m a developmental editor, line editor, and copyeditor with fifteen years of experience in publishing, starting as a production editor with a book packager, moving to managing editor for an independent publisher, and continuing as a freelance editor and writer.

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I maintain active memberships in professional associations, serve as co-coordinator for the Arizona chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association, and continually develop my craft through classes, networking, and mentoring.

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My education includes bachelor’s degrees in international relations and history, coursework for a master’s degree in history, and the following classes on editing:

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Editorials Freelancers Association classes

• Advanced Copyediting

• Developmental Editing of Nonfiction

• Beginning Developmental Editing of Fiction 

• Intermediate Developmental Editing of Fiction 

• Advanced Developmental Editing of Fiction 

 

Jennifer Lawler (Club Ed for Freelancers) classes

• Copyediting and Line Editing Fiction

• Editing the Romance Novel

• DE Detective (sentence-level clues for developmental story problems)

• Naked Editing (a how-to class for developmental editors)

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