I am a freelance editor (“book doctor”) who
will help you get your manuscript ready for presentation to agents and
publishers. To me, editing is a skill, a challenge, and an art.
I take every job seriously and will not let a manuscript out of my hands
until I feel that I have done my absolute best for the writer. If, in my
opinion, a manuscript is not of publishing quality (no matter how much work I
were to do on it), I will return it to you, rather than waste your money and
my time. For the most part, however, I love reading the manuscripts writers
send me. I open each envelope with great anticipation and can't wait to get
to work! I am every bit as conscientious about my clients’ work as I am
about my own.
Please visit my "references,"
because what my clients say about my editing work for them is far more
important than anything I could tell you about myself.
CREDENTIALS
Author of 14 books and over 500 published articles in major publications,
including Parents, McCalls, Mothering, Working
Mother, Lady’s Circle and Chicago Parent.
An essay of mine was included in The Writer's Handbook, 2004, featured as
one of "50 valuable essays by
America
's
greatest writers."
Recipient of two Education-Press Awards for “Outstanding
Journalism."
Honored by the Illinois Library
Association for “Contribution to Literature.”
Freelance editor for 20 years, both for individual clients and publishing
companies: Rand McNally; Scott Foresman; National
Textbook; and Evanston Publishing.
I am very proud of the following clients of mine who were published in 2009:
Live Symptom Free with the MS Recovery Diet by Ann Sawyer (Penguin Group)
Our Fractured Wholeness: Making the Courageous Journey from Brokenness to Love by Diana Ventura (Wipf and Stock)
Snickers, the Preachers Cat by Pollee Frier (Their Universe)
An Academic Plan for Success by Gaines Bradford Jackson, PhD (Xlibris)
Stop Aging-- Start Training by Salvatore Fichera ( Basic Health Publications)
Hawk’s Crossing by Dr. Mark Varnum (Cold Book Publishing)
Hearts Upon a Fragile Bough by Jane Clark (iUniverse)
Myrriddin: Book 2 of the Merlin Factor (Purple Haze Press)
Cornbread Faces the School Bully by Vincent Taylor (Tri Eclipse, Inc.) Cornbread Has a Bad Habit by Vincent Taylor (Tri Eclipse, Inc.)
1089 Nights: An Odyssey Through the Middle East, Africa and Asia by Ann von Lossberg (iUniverse)
Run Amuck System: Out of Control American Judiciary by Gaines B. Jackson, Ph.D. (Xlibris)
An Endless River by Samuel Alesich (Publish America)
How Big Are the Pancakes? Three Biker Chicks Cycle Across America by Kathryn Krull ( Trent 's Prints and Publishing)
Nomad’s Land by Susan Kathleen (Outskirts Press)
Wildflowers; Bridie's Daughter; Secrets (a trilogy) by Robert Noonan (iUniverse)
My Castle in Spain by John Mattson (Publish America)
Touching the American Rainbow by Tapiwa Kapurura ( iUniverse)
Constancy in Courage by Dan Greenig (TSW Promotions)
And the following clients published between 2007 and 2009:
A Place for Me by Walter Allen (Bookmasters)
Apparitions by Robert Chan (iUniverse)
Deparate to Survive by Gordon Baker (Llumina Publishing)
Fontana by Brian Barger (Publish America)
Force a Miracle by Darryl Didder (i-universe)
God's Special Angels by Louis Joseph
Cuccia (Morris Publishing)
Hope Amid the Shadows by Dr. Ralph Morales Jr. (Chicago Spectrum
Press)
Jenna's Song by Dr. Ralph J. Morales
Jr. (Chicago Spectrum Press)
Leftovers by John Matson (Publish
America
)
Longinus by Steven Maines (iUniverse)
Love Never Dies by Dr. Ralph Morales Jr. (Chicago
Spectrum Press)
Massacre at Baxter
Springs by Tom Smith (Author House)
Once Upon a Bavarian Winter by Ronald Harmon (Publish
America
)
Out of the Darkness by Dr. Ralph Morales Jr. (Chicago
Spectrum Press)
Shadow of Gold by Arnold
Marsh (Publish
America
)
Tales from the Turf by John Madson (Publish America)
Tears for Grandma by Linda Campbell (Publish
America
)
The Bottle Tree by Louis J.Cuccia, (Morris Publishing)
The Feel Good Society by Dr. James Hutton (Pentegram Publishers)
The Intelligent Guide to Texas Hold'em Poker by Sam Braids (Intelligent Games Publishing)
The Right1.com by Naomi Doiuglas Davis (Omnipublishing)
When Cotton Was King by Louis J. Cuccia (Morris Publishing)
Witch & Whimsy by Ann Sawyer (Publish America)
Other books I have developmentally
edited are:
Bogan Rutha’s The Rat Palace; Ken Dachman’s The Dachman Permanent Weight Loss Diet; Samuel Alesich’s Going Home; Gene Eric Salecker’s Disaster on the Mississippi; Gary Ockunzzi’s Latin Soulmates Live Forever; Alice
Conway’s The Green Branch; Bob Noonan’s Wild Flowers;
Edith Milestone’s God Writes the Music For Our Life; Wendy Meckel’s Red River
Rising; Dennis Flannery's Benevolent Takeover; Jeffrey
Strauss’ Pro Bono; Arthur Rhodes’ The Crying of the Wind; Jane
Cook's End of a Whisper; Ann Sawyer's Facing the Moon and Daughters of Eden; Robert
Chan's Axe of the Gods and The Law Is a Jealous Mistress; Susan
Bonifant's Edit/Undo; Raul Hernandez' La Mariposa Cafe; P.B. Odinfish's Murder by Proxy; Desperate to Survive by Gordon Baker; Charles Cook's Soft Shadows; Linda Vogel's Drew Alliance; Sabir Mirza's Shanti; Lee Anderson's The Iron Bridge; Ronald L. Lewis's The Legend of the Golden Apple; Steven Maine's Longinus, Book I of the Merlin Factor; Peggy Ekbert's Homeschooling a Scholar; John Mattson's My Castle in Spain; Diana Ventura's From Brokenness to Love; Salvatore Fichera's Stop Aging-Start Training; Susan Kathleen's Nomad's Land; Raul Hernandez's The Serape Notebook.
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