DEANNA BRADY is a highly versatile freelance writer and editor with more than two decades of experience. Known as an "editor's editor," she ghostwrites, rewrites, develops, and copyedits a wide range of material, including self-help/how-to books, novels (both literary and genre fiction), creative nonfiction, biographies/memoirs, proposals, cover and query letters, articles, essays, scripts, business communications, and Web content. She has written and edited marketing and advertising copy for Fortune 500 companies and is adept at editing ESL and translated text, as well as scientific/technical material. In addition, she specializes in projects concerning spirituality, ecology, Native American Indian culture, psychology, allopathic and complementary medicine, and health, and she particularly enjoys working with& fantasy, science fiction, historical, romance, adventure, mystery, and young adult literature.

Deanna spent more than a decade as a magazine editor. She also taught at California State University for a dozen years, has written several children's textbooks, and is an award-winning author of short fiction and poetry. Her many happy clients greatly appreciate her expertise, gentle guidance, and ability to preserve their individual voices and help make their manuscripts shine.

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Jen Bouvier has been providing writing and editing services to corporations, businesses, and individuals for over thirty years.

• GHOSTWRITING: Over the past several years I’ve ghostwritten a number of books, ranging from business/marketing to travel to fiction. Specific titles available upon request.

• FICTION: Over the past two years I’ve written and sold the first novels in what will be two mystery series, one as J.A. Squires to Echelon Press, and the other as Alicia Stone to Mainly Murder Press. Read about the first book with Echelon, Assignment: Nepal, at www.ireneadlermysteries.com.

• MARKETING/BUSINESS COLLATERAL: For going on ten years I’ve been doing all the marketing writing for an email/SEO/social media marketing company, which includes articles, press releases, email content, web content, case studies, white papers, some SEO work, and other business collateral. Based on a case study that I researched and wrote, the company won the Promo Interactive Marketing Award.

• VIDEO SCRIPTS: I continue to enjoy writing the scripts for marketing and educational video projects, working with a number of different video companies. Samples are available upon request.

• EDUCATIONAL COLLATERAL: I came out of academia and so am comfortable working on educational materials. One of my ongoing clients provides educational materials to corporations; another needs educational collateral for teaching assignments.

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Suzanne Manness is a college professor specializing in technical and business writing. She has written and edited technical manuals, informational brochures, business proposals, and grants. She has also written computer user manuals and technical instrumentation directions. Additionally, she has edited many medical textbooks and medical articles on such subjects as heart transplants, pain management, and anesthesiology.

She is an expert in all documentation systems such as Chicago Style, Harvard, APA, American Anthropological Association, and MLA. Her specialty is taking complex material and translating that material into a clear, concise, audience-friendly document.

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Since operating as a freelance editor and writer, Ms. Monty, a Microsoft Word and LaTeX expert, has worked on books and articles published by many of the world’s leading publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, MIT Press, John Wiley, Springer, Lawrence Erlbaum, Pearson-Prentice Hall, Berg, Macmillan, Berkshire, American Geophysical Union, Praeger, Greenwood, Blackwell, Elsevier, Sage, Begell House, Teacher Ideas Press, Libraries Unlimited, UTH Zürich, RAND Corporation, and other top names in academic and nonfiction publishing. To date, she has edited over 1,500 published journal articles, over 100 nonfiction books, and a wealth of dissertations and theses. An elected member of the board of governors of the Editorial Freelancers Association from 2007 to 2008, Ms. Monty is proud to have worked with a diversity of students and academics from a broad range of our nation's universities. Given her wealth of experience, she is adept at working within the precise terms of your university's thesis/dissertation guidelines or with the publication guidelines of any peer-reviewed journal.

"Holly was FANTASTIC. She was SO thorough and submitted everything back to me earlier than I needed it! Even after she was done with the edit, I had some questions, and she was very speedy in her responses. I appreciate that she took time to answer my questions. She really went above and beyond! My paper not only needed to follow APA guidelines, but my university had guidelines as well. She did both perfectly."
—Nicole Foster, Trinity International University.

Article: Chicago Manual of Style: Essential Changes in the 16th Edition

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NANCY ROSENBAUM specializes in writing, proofreading, fact-checking, and editing of business and technical documentation. She has more than 20 years of experience writing and editing technical documentation for industries ranging from computer hardware and software to banking and finance, environmental engineering and heavy/highway construction, pharmaceuticals, consulting, biometrics, and security. Her work has included client-facing materials such as proposals, multi-volume permit applications, user guides, release notes, and marketing copy to internal materials such as functional specifications, test plans with use cases, and progress reports. Nancy has also edited articles on topics including clean technologies, business and marketing, computer science and learning, industrial technology, and other subjects for journals and symposia such as World Congress on Computer Science; Educause Quarterly; IEEE national and international conferences, workshops, and journals; Journal of Computer Security; Journal of Industrial Teacher Education; International Journal of Computer Applications; International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; Eastern Economic Journal; and European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.

Nancy earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Mt. Holyoke College and studied technical documentation and business communications at Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"The network's prompt response detailing potential editors allowed our text to be in the hands of an editing professional in no time. The knowledge, professionalism, and editing service offered by Nancy greatly enhanced the content and flow of the textbook. Additionally, Nancy provided comments and insight that went well beyond the service paid, and returned the ~44,000 word textbook within weeks. I highly recommend the network and Nancy."

"I couldn’t have dreamt of receiving the thoroughness of editing, knowledge, and follow through that was provided by Nancy. She caught an error in my reference list that I would never have found. I don’t know how she did it! I am so pleased!"

"Seriously, you saved my life.  English is my second language. I was desperate looking at all the words I had to put together so that it would flow nicely using APA style.  This was an immense mountain to climb.  I decided to search the web to see if I could find help.  I did not know about your network but I figured I would search for APA Editor and there you were. I also thought it would be too late since there was only 5 days before my paper was due.   I sent the email anyway out of desperation....and ding! I got a response right away.  I could’t believe it and was afraid it was a scam. But I had nothing to lose.  Nancy took by messy words and made a wonderful essay with it.  She rearranged the headlines, wrapped it all up in APA, check my reference list to make sure I had quoted everyone.  I received an amazing final product.  I now can carry on working full-time doing a Master knowing that there is someone who can help me at the most difficult times...editing.  My husband also wants to thank you since I was so much easier to live with once I found you! Ha! Thank you so much!

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MARIE VALENTINE is skilled at making the most technical information clear and understandable to general readers. She is also comfortable reading about highly complex projects and topics that go in-depth on technical aspects. For six years, Marie edited a global business technology magazine dealing with data and analytics. Topics of specialization include:

• computer networks
• the Internet
• information technology
• information management
• business intelligence analytics
• data management
• cloud computing
• virtualization
• big data
• metadata
• structured and unstructured data
• infrastructure
• content management
• strategy
• performance management
• process management
• decision-making best practices
• web services
• social media

Marie is an honors graduate from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities English and Spanish programs and holds a master’s degree in communications from Marquette University.

10+ years proofreading experience (print, web, digital, books, magazines, news weeklies, chapbooks and more)

6 years business and technology editing experience

5 years book manuscript editing experience, both fiction and nonfiction

4 years publisher acquisitions experience - Ruminator (small press), university press (U of MN), commercial press (Llewellyn) I know what publishers look for in a book.

9 years academic editing and formatting

Services:

Content organization

Structural and substantive editing

Proofreading

Formatting and style editing (MLA, Chicago, APA, AP, project-specific)

Copy editing

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Barbara von Diether has an Ed.D. from Brigham Young University and was the graduate research and writing coordinator at Utah State University for 12 years. She counseled over 300 students a year who were seeking help with the graduate process, and published a Publication Guide for Graduate Students (Utah State University Press, 1980).

She was the final editorial review for theses and dissertations from 54 departments. She has an M.Ed. from Utah State University in education technology. President of the Utah Conference of the American Association of University Professors, she met with the Board of Regents and college and university presidents to resolve faculty conflicts. She wrote grants for research funding that supported graduate students.

"You were absolutely correct!! My advisor accepted my proposal after I incorporated your changes and recommendations and it is now in the hands of my committee. When I finish Chapters 4 and 5, I will contact you – I very much appreciate your guidance and counsel. It changed a frustrating situation into a success!"

"I did it! I passed! It was an unconditional pass from all faculty members!  The head of my department said it was one of the top 3 defenses he has ever seen and probably one of the most professional presentations ever... and he has been doing this for over 20 years!!!  Talk about feeling good!!!! I am so very happy!!!"

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