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Carrie Andrews is an honors graduate with a BA in English. She has worked in the publishing industry for several years as a project editor, copyeditor, and proofreader, with specialties in fiction, entertainment, and college-level textbooks. She works with companies such as Reader’s Digest, Random House, Inc., Kensington Publishing, and Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. A bibliophile her entire life, Carrie has a natural talent for language. Her avid reading has helped her develop a sharp eye for detail and has honed her sense of flow. While copyediting, she strikes that delicate balance between maintaining an author's voice and making the language clear and vibrant. She is also a meticulous proofreader and fact checker. Clients have called her work "superb" and "astute." Authors enjoy Carrie's personable style and find her easy to work with.
Fiction: African American, inspirational, thrillers, suspense, historical, fantasy, romance, and the classics.

Non-Fiction: World history, world politics, American government, singing, psychology, philosophy, speech, physical chemistry, oral history, self-help, alternative medicine articles, and scientific journals.

Entertainment: Video game strategy guides, behind-the-scenes books, and art books.

Stephanie Rose Bird, MFA has won numerous awards and honors including funding from the Illinois Arts Council, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ford Foundation and Australian American Educational Foundation. She was an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for 15 years. Her work has been published in a variety of publications including Natural Home Magazine, Sage Woman Magazine, Llewellyn’s Herbal Almanac, The International Journal of Aromatherapy, Country Marketplace Magazine, ePregnancy.com, Herb Companion, The Beltane Papers, and the anthology, Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number. Commissioned projects include exhibition catalogs, kits and a textbook. She has new features in the works for Cat Fancy, Herb Quarterly, and PanGaia.

Fiction: Psychic / Supernatural, Literary Fiction, Inspirational , Horror, Romance, Action / Adventure, Children's Books

Nonfiction: Theses / Dissertations (see: Thesis and Dissertation Advisors On Call), Personal Essays, Biographies / Genealogies, Self-Help / How-to, Music / Art, Diet and Nutrition, Ethnic, Religion / Spirituality, Lifestyle / Cooking / Travel.
 

Bruce Bradley is a journalist, book editor, ghostwriter, and literary attorney. He also assists writers with contract negotiations and book marketing. His clients are unpublished and published authors, and agents. Besides offering manuscript critiques as a starting point, he edits for structure, content, and grammar. He can assist with marketing plans and book proposals. He knows how to get the attention of acquisition editors. He can create and put together a proposal package that includes materials such as a query letter, book outline, author biography, polished chapter samples, marketing plan, and any other ancillary materials that will help close the sale of your book.

Deanna Brady ghostwrites, rewrites, and edits self-help books, novels, biographies, cover and query letters, proposals, articles, essays, scripts, textbooks, business communications, Web content, and literary fiction. In addition to writing several children’s textbooks, she is an award-winning author of short fiction and poetry.  For more than two decades, Deanna has written and edited virtually every type of nonfiction literature, including advertising and marketing copy, prospectuses, and training materials, for major corporations, magazines, and publishing firms. She also works with most genres of fiction, including children's, young adult, romance, historical, biographical, autobiographical, mystery, adult, fantasy, and science fiction. She is adept at editing ESL text, dialects, and British language variation and also specializes in subjects concerning spirituality, ecology, alternative healing, and Native American Indian culture.

Beth Bruno is a columnist, author, and book editor. Hundreds of her articles have been published in print and online, and her first book, Wild Tulips, came out in 2001 and went into a second printing in 2002. Beth's proximity to New York and her position as President of the CT Authors and Publishers Association give her unique access to literary agents and publishers in and around New York City. Several of the authors whose manuscripts she has edited have been published in the mainstream, thanks to her referrals on their behalf. Beth's editing interests are electic and include a delicious mix of fiction, nonfiction, young adult, and children's works. 

Specialties: adventure, children's books, contemporary, education, humor, memoir/biography, mystery, romance/women's fiction, historical, creative nonfiction, literary fiction.

Faith Hickman Brynie specializes in science and health, especially for children and young adults. She has a Ph.D. in science curriculum and instruction, and she is an experienced editor of science activity books, trade books for middle school and high school, and textbooks K-12. She has worked for major publishers as writer, substantive editor, developmental editor, copyeditor, and fact checker. She excels at communicating complex ideas clearly and simply.

She loves fiction, and has written three novels, all published by Geneses under a pseudonym. She has won several contests and awards for her short fiction, which has been published in such magazines as Thema, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Midnight Zoo, Aberrations, Over My Dead Body!, Haunts, and others. She critiques mainstream, science fiction, horror, and mystery manuscripts, helping authors develop their characters, plot, dialogue, voice, and style. She also does developmental editing and copyediting of fiction manuscripts.

Michael Carr has edited 300+ titles for major publishers including Time Warner Books, Penguin Putnam, Kensington, Regnery, Holcomb Hathaway, and Globo Libros. His fiction editing and copyediting credits include hardback literary and historical, crime/mystery, adult and young adult drama, romance, fantasy, and science fiction. Representative crime fiction titles include New York Times Notable Book of the Year winner Archer Mayor’s Gatekeeper and The Surrogate Thief, Brad Meltzer’s political thriller The Zero Game (#3 NY Times best-seller), Robert Greer’s Heat Shock, and Patricia Smiley’s Cover Your Assets (L.A. Times best-seller). Fantasy and science fiction works include Beyond Infinity, by Gregory Benford (who has cowritten with Arthur C. Clarke), Stewart and Cohen’s Heaven, and Michael Moorcock’s The White Wolf’s Son, to name but a few. Nonfiction titles include scholarly, self-help, business, motivation, health, psychology, history, politics, world affairs, and popular culture, with a little forensic science and true crime thrown in. Representative nonfiction titles include Bernard Goldberg’s Arrogance (NY Times best-seller), CNN Crossfire host Tucker Carlson’s Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites, the Reverend Al Sharpton’s Al on America, and CNN host Lou Dobbs’s Exporting America. Michael has an MA in English and has taught creative writing and poetry at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Rosanne Catalano's  experience screening submissions has taught her exactly what polish to use to get the author's voice heard. Her passion is for children’s and young adult books. She edited Runt the Brave by Daniel Schwabauer (Clear Water Press, 2004, Ben Franklin Award, 2005) and The Adventures of the Book Battling Kids by Richard Brian Harvell (Waterwood Publishing Group, 2006), both young adult fantasy books. She enjoys sci/fi, too, and frequently edits in that genre. She has also written and edited for VeggieTales, Scooby-Doo, Strawberry Shortcake, and the Power Rangers, among others. In the inspirational sector, Rosanne’s work includes THE good book. My Favorite Bible Storybook for Early Readers (435 pages), which has been a top-seller for Dalmatian Press, as well as anthologies (Stories of Friendship, Jesus Touched Them, In Search of Christmas, Memories of Times Past) and children’s books (Conversations from the Ark, Let’s Share, ABC I Love You, The Story of Samson) for Ideals Publications. She also edited a Sunday school curriculum for Cook Ministries’ Bible-In-Life series. 

Jeannette Cezanne is passionate about language. As a freelance writer and editor, she blends grammatical correctness with scintillating prose for projects as diverse as documentary and educational videos, articles and magazine columns, business plans, press releases, patent applications, technical documentation and business manuals, marketing collateral, Web site copy, brochures, advertising campaigns, and academic work. Edited fiction projects include mainstream, historical, mystery, romance, and speculative fiction manuscripts.

Virginia Clark has proofread and copy edited over 200 titles. She specializes in literary and popular fiction, detective/crime fiction, biography, self-help, history, music, and the visual arts, especially film. She was a staff copyeditor for Simon & Schuster in New York starting in 1989 for five years and has continued to freelance for them ever since, as well as for other presses including Algonquin; Duke University; Farrar, Straus, & Giroux; and the University of California. Fiction she has copyedited includes Richard Condon, The Emperor of America; Quinn Dalton, High-Strung; David Freeman, A Hollywood Life and It’s All True; Kem Nunn, The Dogs of Winter; Kate Walbert, The Gardens of Kyoto and Our Kind; and Meg Wolitzer, Surrender, Dorothy. Detective/crime authors include Jan Burke, George C. Chesbro, Nick Gaitano, Alison Glen, Philip Harper, David Osborn, Ian Rankin, and Jan Roberts. She has copyedited autobiographies including Miles Davis, Miles; Faye Dunaway, Looking for Gatsby; Charlton Heston, In the Arena; and Neil Simon, Rewrites: A Memoir; as well as biographies such as Joseph McBride, The Catastrophe of Success: Frank Capra and McBride’s Steven Spielberg. She has also worked on large collections including The Companion to 20th-Century Music, Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide, and The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Virginia holds a Ph.D. in English and has taught writing, literature, and film. Her own writing includes several books on film (Aldous Huxley and Film; What Women Wrote: Scenarios, 1912-1929); numerous articles on film history; and several screenplays, one of which won a script writing contest sponsored by HBO, Aaron Spelling, and John Truby, and another which was optioned by Hollywood producers.

The award-winning writing of Karen Davis prompted one of many loyal clients to call her his "secret weapon in attaining communications supremacy." She earned magna cum laude degrees in English and history and world-class journalism credentials from the London Times and Regional Newspapers. Since 1976 she has been an international correspondent and author of hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles; publishing house editor (several books won American Library Association Outstanding Reference Source awards); acclaimed advertising writer (First Place in the Pacific Northwest, direct mail campaign) and technical writer ($10,000 First Place in North America, engineering paper); director of publications and marketing; author of style manuals; university lecturer in writing; and published lyricist and poet. She brings clarity and conciseness to confusing language and organization to chaos. She researches, writes, rewrites, edits, and proofreads everything from books (fiction and nonfiction) and screenplays to business, scientific, and government documents. Her areas of expertise include anthologies and compendiums, autobiography and biography, British language and culture, crime and mystery, children’s books, drama and theatrical, education and textbooks, entertainment and Hollywood, essays, fables and fairy tales, horse racing, humor, history and politics, historical fiction, music, mythology and folklore, nature and the environment, philosophy and religion, poetry and verse, psychology, romance, short stories, science and science fiction, space flight, sports, travel, and young adult fiction. Clients value her meticulousness, intelligence, honesty, reliability, creativity, and cooperative spirit. She’s a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.

Diane L. Foose has 20 years of experience as a full-time freelance copy editor and proofreader of books and journals in the fields of medicine and health, engineering, mathematics, law, the environment, and the social sciences. Some of the journals she has worked on are The Journal of Legal Medicine, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, Health Care for Women International, Ocean Development and International Law, Comparative Strategy, Traffic Injury Prevention, and Numerical Heat Transfer. Diane's assignments require an in-depth knowledge of editorial practices, familiarity with specific editorial styles (Chicago, APA, AMA), an understanding of scientific and technical terms, and the ability to handle tables, figures, equations, and other materials.more

William Fox graduated from the highly rated School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and has been writing and editing at newspapers for three decades. He’s an expert in editing stories about business, finance, sports, politics, government and international affairs. On the lighter side, he has top knowledge about anything in the sports field: baseball, basketball, football, hockey, tennis.  His stories have been published in magazines in Europe, plus The Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Daily Breeze in Torrance, Calif. Mr. Fox has been an editor at a national business publication the last five years. His daily work includes checking for grammar and punctuation problems with nearly every story that appears in the newspaper. He also organizes stories, headlines and photos for special sections.
 

Jennifer Gardner is a proofreader, structural editor, and copyeditor who loves fact checking. Her background is primarily in scientific and scholarly journals and books for publishers such as Taylor & Francis books and CRC Press as well as in soft science publications for such presses as Allworth and Pointed Leaf. 

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Val Gerard is a research biologist. Val has published over fifty papers in the fields of ecology, botany, zoology, physiology, biochemistry, oceanography, and mathematical modelling (see her publication list). She has written a million dollars worth of successful grant proposals to federal, state, and private funding agencies. She has also acted as associate editor, editorial board member, and/or reviewer for over twenty scientific journals, including Science. Val served as advisor and/or mentor to several dozen graduate students, and has over thirty years of experience in classroom teaching, including scientific writing courses. As a freelance editor, she assists both professionals and students, writing about such diverse topics as biochemical indicators of disease in elderly populations, marsh restoration in the Netherlands, new methods of mass spectrometry, physiological effects of space travel, and advertising brochures for Chinese health supplements

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J. Gerke, M.Div. knows what it’s like on both sides of the author/editor equation. He has published six Christian novels of his own and co-written two nonfiction books on Christian living topics. His seminary degree served him well as a staff editor with three Christian publishing companies. His specialty is Christian speculative fiction, an umbrella term that encompasses Christian science fiction, fantasy, time travel, supernatural thrillers, and spiritual warfare fiction. As he likes to say, “Anything weird.” He’s also edited almost all other genres of Christian fiction, including chick-lit, mom-lit, mystery, thriller, contemporary, women’s fiction, and humorous fiction. J. Gerke has managed fiction lines for Christian publishing companies, so he can tell you whether or not your book would receive a welcome at publishers.

Hugh  Glenn, EdD, has written or contributed to numerous academic and educational publications, including ERIC, The Commentator, The Elementary School Journal, and The Reading Teacher. A former professor at three campuses of the California State University, he served as Director of Reading Education at Pepperdine University. His books include Glenn’s Guide to Formal Writing, Glenn’s Guide to Technical Writing, and Readings in Reading. Dr. Glenn has worked for major publishers (Benefic, Holt Rinehart & Winston, NCTE) as an author, substantive editor, and developmental editor. His outstanding strength is helping clients create clear, direct writing.

Anne Greenberg was an in-house editor of children’s books for 16 years at Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, specializing in fiction for readers 5–8, 8–12, and young adult. As a freelancer, she focuses on developmental editing, editing, and copyediting of adult fiction and nonfiction, in addition to children’s books. At Pocket/S&S she edited more than 550 books (including all-new Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys titles) and worked with seasoned and first-time authors. Honors for her list include The Queen of Everything by Deb Caletti, a teen novel that garnered two starred reviews and the cover of the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books; Why Do They Hate Me?, a nonfiction compilation that was named a VOYA Nonfiction Honor Book; and Violet Eyes by Nicole Luiken, a teen science fiction novel that was a YALSA Quick Pick nominee. As a freelance she has edited Walking the Line by Mike Lude with Bill Knight (sports autobiography/Classic Day Publishing), Sniper Shot by Barry Ozeroff (adult thriller/ibooks), Spider Riders: The Shards of the Oracle by Tedd Anasti and Patsy Cameron-Anasti with Stephen D. Sullivan (children’s sf/Newmarket Press), and Defender: Hyperswarm by Tim Waggoner (sf/ibooks). Copyedited works include Winning by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch (business/HarperCollins); Shine by Star Jones Reynolds (HarperCollins); The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty by Buster Olney (sports/HarperCollins); Arthritis by John D. Clough, MD (Cleveland Clinic Press); One Stroke, Two Survivors by Bernice Kleiman with Herb Kleiman; The Van Gogh Conspiracy by J. Madison Davis (thriller/ibooks); The Rare and The Beautiful by Cressida Connolly (biography/HarperCollins); and Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score by Andy Kessler (business/HarperCollins).

Specialties:: Young adult fiction; children’s fiction (chapter books and middle grade); adult trade fiction and nonfiction, including self-help, how-to, diet and nutrition.

Susan Grossman offers highly personalized, customized editing. She has worked in publishing for nearly twenty years, in all aspects of the process—from acquisitions and developmental editing to copyediting and proofreading. Captivated early on by the idea of other worlds, she has worked for highly regarded publishers of science fiction and fantasy such as Ace, Baen, Bantam, and Random House Spectra and was a managing editor at Macmillan Children's Books. A writer as well as an editor, Susan has published nonfiction children's books as well as short fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, and technical articles. She has also been heavily involved in producing award-winning CD-ROMs for Microsoft. She believes her role is to offer feedback that helps bring the writer's vision into reality and maximizes the story's chances of consideration by an agent or publisher. Says one client, "I've come to rely on Susan for that gift the very best fiction editors have for recommending that one small change that dramatically improves the whole work"--an editorial ideal Susan strives to consistently meet. 

Specialties: Biology, psychology, art, folklore, religion, spirituality, computers and technology, young adult, gay and lesbian, Jewish fiction and nonfiction, and science fiction..

Bonnie Hearn Hill is a writer-friendly editor/mentor who has helped numerous authors break into print. She teaches workshops for Writer's Digest Online Workshops and speaks at writing conferences across the country. Her workshop members have won awards (such as the Hackney Literary Prize for fiction) and sold everything from novels to nonfiction books, essays and cowboy poetry to top publishers such as Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan, Writer's Digest, Story Line Press, Santa Monica Press, and Simon & Schuster.  Bonnie is completing a six-book contract with MIRA Books. Killer Body, a thriller set in the weight-loss industry, was published in February 2004 and was a Cosmopolitan magazine "pick." Her thriller, Intern, about the disappearance of an intern/lover of a California state senator, was published in 2003—and called "a page-turner" by Publishers Weekly. Double Exposure was published this year and will be followed by a series of mass-market paperback newspaper thrillers. She has sold hundreds of freelance articles to such magazines as Writer's Digest, Writing for Money, Family Circle and others. The (Expanded) Freelancer's Rulebook was published in 2002 by Story Line Press and named one of the top 25 writing books by The Writer magazine. Bonnie feels that most writers don't lack talent—they lack focus. And she believes character, especially internal conflict, is the key to creating marketable fiction. She also believes that whatever the genre, fiction provides closure in the way real life doesn't always do. She reads widely and enjoys teaching and editing writers in all genres, especially writers who are passionate about their work. "Passion," she says, "is the one ingredient you can't edit in later."

Specialties: Women's fiction, thrillers, chick lit, mystery/crime fiction, literary, short stories, articles, essays, memoir, nonfiction.

Carol Hegberg copyedits, rewrites, and proofreads speeches, short stories or collections, articles, essays, and fiction/nonfiction manuscripts. She can help develop and edit inspirational, Christian, and picture-book manuscripts, children and young-adult fiction and nonfiction. She’s available for proofreading or writing help with manuscript submissions, query letters, and book proposals. Her published works include a novel, a nonfiction health book, short stories, anthologies, poetry, columns, magazines and newspaper articles, skits and play scripts.

Linda Hines specializes in substantive editing, copyediting, rewriting, and proofreading. She has edited over 100 fiction and non-fiction works. Clients have praised her precision, creativity, insight, dedication, and talent. Linda works with most genres of fiction including literary, adult, humor, mystery, autobiographical, and historical. She also specializes in essays, short stories, and nonfiction books, including business, education, medical, current events and politics, psychology, entertainment, travel, Eastern philosophy, new age, spirituality, aromatherapy, alternative medicine, holistic healing, organic gardening, nature and the environment, self-help, how-to, beauty, fashion, weight loss, fitness, health, diet and nutrition.

She prides herself on providing a seamless experience for her clients, from developmental editing, to copyediting, through final proofing.

Kate Johnson is a developmental editor and rewriting specialist. She has edited nonfiction books, textbooks, encyclopedia and journal articles, technical manuals, conference proceedings, newsletters, and online publications in a wide range of topics for professional, academic, and lay audiences. She especially enjoys working with medical, biological, and other natural science materials. Kate earned her BA in psychobiology from Yale University and did post-graduate coursework in anatomy at CCRI. She has worked with students and professors--including many for whom English is a second language--to refine research articles, grant proposals, and dissertations. She is literate in scientific and medical terminology, familiar with various style requirements (such as Chicago, AMA, and GPO), and adaptable to authors' or publishers' preferences.

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Floyd Largent is a writer/editor specializing in history, natural history, anthropology, the sciences, and literature on the non-fiction front, and speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and allied fields) otherwise. He has published his own e-book on fiction marketing (100 Great Places to Sell Your Short Stories, Both On and Off the Web), and is intimately familiar with technical writing, having worked as a technical writer and editor for ten years. Mr. Largent can provide publishing assistance (especially with short stories and journal articles), content development, ghostwriting, and mentoring services, supplemented with advice concerning manuscript mechanics, query letters, book synopses, and proposals.

Jo-Ann Langtree write and edits books, stories, and articles in the following fields: business, medical, insurance, health, holistic health, spirituality, religion, psychic phenomena, young-adult fiction, childrens books, mystical experience, self-help, New Age, nutrition, diet, exercise, saints & masters, gurus, theosophy, Christianity, homeopathy, vitamins & minerals, herbs, food supplements. She was a writer and editor for Aetna Life & Casualty. As editor of Life NEWS, she had sole responsibility for finding, developing, writing, editing, and proofing all articles. Topics included new products, sales campaigns, insurance-agent interviews, accolades, seminars, Company acquisitions and policies. Jo-Ann also edits personal and business sites.

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Herbert M. Levine focuses on nonfiction books and articles. Publishers of his edited works include St. Martin’s Press, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, M.E. Sharpe, Franklin Watts, Wadsworth, Regnery, and the University of North Texas Press. His books consist of trade books for the general public, college texts, a biography, and young adult publications. The subject matter of these books includes American government, state and local government, world politics, terrorism, arms control, state and local government, public administration, civil liberties, gun control, illegal drugs, chemical and biological weapons, and immigration. His articles have appeared in newspapers, magazines, journals, and reference books (including an encyclopedia). From 1999-2004 he served as a consultant for book projects on counterterrorism and evaluated and edited the work of academics and former government officials that appeared in these works. He holds a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University. He taught courses in American government, international relations, arms control, U.S. foreign policy, and introduction to politics.

Lorna Lynch has edited and proofread 50+ published books to date. She co-owned a monthly newspaper for seven years, where she wrote and edited hundreds of articles. She has a tremendous instinct for what "works" and what doesn’t in both fiction and non-fiction, and has guided numerous authors to publishing success. Her primary goal is to see that writing with some potential becomes writing with great potential, and she works closely with authors to achieve that goal. Her area of expertise is character-driven fiction; however, she has edited books of all stripes, including political commentary, how-to books, mysteries, romance novels, and psychological thrillers.

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Ron Marmarelli is a specialist in nonfiction, especially biography, history, and literary journalism, with expertise in scholarly writing and documentation (MLA, Chicago/Turabian, APA). He also is experienced in editing fiction manuscripts, especially historical fiction and literary fiction, and can assist in preparation of book proposals, synopses, and queries. He is a published biographer and historian, a former newspaper journalist, and a university professor who also has been a freelance editor since 2000. He has taught university courses in writing and editing for more than 20 years, has written more than 20 biographical articles for reference works, and has written articles, essays, and book reviews for anthologies and journals. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and has done doctoral work in American studies.

Jim McDonough has edited books on such different subjects as translations from Greek and Latin prose and poetry, Roman history, Catholic schools, Jews and Gentiles in the ancient world, Martin Luther, World War II, the Bible, foreign phrases used in English contexts, and biography. He has also edited a medical dictionary, a historical novel on the First Crusade, and encyclopedia articles. He prefers the Chicago/Turabian style. When he receives a manuscript with great idea but less than ideal presentation of these ideas, he takes great delight in helping the author give form, organization, and polish to the work so as to increase its chances of publication and of getting the author’s ideas across effectively to the public.

Karl Morgan is a book editor, script doctor, and writer. Since 1981, he has written for Epicurious, Thinkwell,  and nerve.com, among many print and on-line publications. His fiction has appeared in the Austin Chronicle and been read at Borders Books and on KUT public radio in Austin. Books he's edited have been singled out by the Chicago Review Press and Independent Publishers Group and have been praised by the likes of Deepak Chopra and David Zucker (writer/director of Airplane! and Naked Gun). In 1997, he was named Boston University's Helen Deutsch Fellow--the school’s most prestigious graduate writing fellowship. 

Dorrie O'Brien has been in the editing and publishing business for 30+ years. She spent ten years in an advertising agency editing ad copy and agency proposals, and another ten working for an aerospace company writing and editing technical documents. She began The Write Way Shop in 1992, a freelance editing service for fiction and non-fiction works, which eventually became Write Way Publishing, Inc., an independent publishing house which focused on mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and horror titles. As Editorial Director, Dorrie published almost 100 titles, garnering several awards in "Best Of" categories. Almost half of the titles were bought for paperback reprints, and two were optioned for TV/movie rights. As the owner of a publishing house, she has invaluable knowledge about the industry, the type of people who run it, how to work within it, tips for getting your foot in the door, and suggestions for how not to inadvertently shoot yourself in the foot. She received thousands of manuscripts through the years, and now uses that knowledge to help her clients produce results-driven query letters and synopses, as well as beautiful manuscripts that just scream: "Read me! Read me!" to a buying editor or agent. 

Dorrie edits genre fiction, but is also well-versed in what makes a trade book work, too. She especially likes to take a jumbled book and streamline it to make sense, take out all the unnecessary bits, strengthen the good parts, polish the prose, fix the mechanics and blow life into the characters by killing the "tell" (adverbs are not your friends!) in any book and making dialogue sound like real people are talking. She works particular hard at making sure the facts and dialogue match the time period in which the book is set. In short, she’s a good mentor, hard worker, and in many cases, has ultimately become a good friend.

Mark Orrin has authored ten published books, scores of articles and poems, and taught writing on college and university levels. A seasoned publications editor, he has also mentored numerous successful American and international authors and poets. During a career in fund raising, Mark was considered one of America’s leading copywriters, copy chiefs and creative/strategic consultants. He has been listed in Who's Who In the West, Who's Who In America, Who's Who In Entertainment and The Dictionary of International Biography. His services include mentoring, critiques and evaluations, substantive editing and content development; submission materials (synopses, book proposals, query letters); ghost writing; line editing; and help with “self-agenting” your own work. His fiction focuses are sci-fi, fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, Westerns, mysteries, adolescent and children’s books, action-suspense; non-fiction includes memoirs, inspirational, public issues, self-help. Mentors projects into royalty-paying (non-“subsidy”) print in the general book market.

Geoff Pope has been editing poetry for 20 years. In the Seattle area he is the lead faculty member for written communications at University of Phoenix (Washington Campus), and he works for Projectline Services, editing case studies for Microsoft. Geoff graduated from the University of Iowa, where he was an editor for the International Writing Program. His poetry has appeared in many magazines, journals and anthologies, including Christianity and Literature, Chronicles, Cornerstone, Radix, Voice of Many Waters: A Sacred Anthology for Today, and The Penwood Review.

Karen  Schader has earned the respect of authors as a sensitive, skilled editor—productive, creative, and talented. She views each editing job as a challenging, exciting puzzle: How can she arrange your words to make the best possible written work? One of her most remarkable qualities is her ability to edit without treading on the author’s ego, even when deep cuts are needed. With extensive in-house experience, Karen has now chosen to work freelance, making her skills available to a wider network of authors. She has edited storybooks, workbooks, teachers’ guides, pamphlets, and books used by educators and mental health professionals. A graduate of Cornell University with a major in child development, she understands kids: how they learn, what they need, and how reading helps them develop. She has an intuitive ear for what reads well and the compulsive personality of a born editor, so you can count on her to check your facts, perfect your grammar and punctuation, and make your writing soar.  

A. J. Sobczak is an editor, proofreader, and writer (business writing, business methods, business history, communication, literary analysis) with more than 18 years of experience in the publishing industry. He works directly with authors of academic articles and books as well as working for publishers. As an in-house editor for Salem Press (6 years) and freelance editor for Sage Publications (since 1993), along with work for University of California Press, ABC-CLIO, Rowman & Littlefield, and other clients, he has edited dozens of books and journals in various topics in the social and hard sciences, including economics, research methods, mathematics, political science, psychology, business and management, supply chain theory, and history. He holds an MA in economics from UCLA, has done graduate-level coursework in mathematics, and taught economics at California State University, Northridge, for 4 years. He is an expert in APA and Chicago styles and is Sage Publications freelance editor of choice for books with heavy math content. His writing on business and economics has appeared in several reference volumes, and he is the editor of and a contributor to Great Events from History II: Business and Commerce, containing approximately 500 articles on critical events in 20th-century business history.

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