FREELANCER DIRECTORY

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FREELANCER DIRECTORY

Freelancers listed are members of the American Copy Editors Society, which provides

this list as a service for its members and for those seeking copy-editing services. ACES

makes no guarantees about the information in this listing and plays no part in any

contract for services. Editors should be contacted through the provided contact

information.

Editors are listed alphabetically with details regarding specialties and experience

provided.

Copy editors who would like to be listed in a future directory should contact Mark

Allen at

[email protected]

for information.

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Lisa Bovee

Green Pen Editing

greenpenediting.com • [email protected] • 855.MY.EDITS

Green Pen Editing provides content writing and comprehensive editing services for authors, entrepreneurs, and executives. We also conduct fun, interactive, and engaging writing workshops.

Lisa Bovee Owner-‐Writer-‐Editor B.A. English/Literature University of Texas at Austin B.A. Rhetoric/Writing University of Texas at Austin M.A. Rhetoric/Composition Texas State University

Mark Allen

Mark Allen Editorial

markalleneditorial.com • [email protected] • 614-‐961-‐9666 • Columbus, Ohio

For 25 years, my focus has been on clarity and accuracy with the reader in mind. Recent projects include in-‐house contract editing and writing for a Fortune 100 financial company, copy editing an early-‐childhood education website, and copy editing scholarly papers on New Orleans schools post Katrina. I teach and mentor copy editors, and I have presented on various topics in editing and freelancing. I post daily editing tips on Twitter as EditorMark and blog for Copyediting.com. I have served on the national board of the American Copy Editors Society since 2012.

Erin Brenner

Right Touch Editing

http://righttouchediting.com • [email protected] • 978-‐996-‐0389

Erin Brenner has been an editing professional for two decades. She founded Right Touch Editing in 2005 to offer businesses and self-‐publishing authors just what they need for editorial services: highly skilled editing, decades of expertise in publishing, and top-‐ notch professionalism.

Businesses like to hire Erin to edit their content marketing and other publications, including email newsletters, blog posts, white papers, marketing research and analysis, e-‐books, and websites. Your materials need to please many stakeholders, and Erin will follow your directions to the letter. She’ll even create a style sheet to record all those demands and keep your copy consistent with the rest of your brand. Self-‐publishing authors hire her for different reasons. Erin holds a master’s degree in literature and works with other editors who are equally knowledgeable about literature and book publishing. There’s only one content owner in this relationship—you.

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If it might be interesting, I could edit it. My experience includes nonfiction and fiction books, business case studies, public relations material, and decades of journalism. I teach a college course in reporting and I've led more than 170 seminars on aspects of editing.

Alex Cruden

Second Thought LLC [email protected] • 313-‐467-‐6824

Daire Coco

DMC Translations www.dmctranslations.com • [email protected]

With more than 15 years in the editorial field, I have a wide range of experience. I started out in TV news working as a writer and copy editor at CNN and then as a financial news writer at CNBC. As a freelancer, I have worked for companies ranging from career advice site Vault.com to Mexico's English-‐language weekly The Guadalajara Reporter. Currently, I work as a Spanish-‐to-‐English translator and editor of English-‐ language translations, most of which are legal and financial documents. I am certified by the Organización Mexicana de Traductores as a Spanish-‐to-‐English translator and hold a master's degree in Spanish translation from NYU.

Laura M. Browning

laurambrowning.com • [email protected]

I have 14 years of experience with substantive/developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading. I've edited alumni magazines, nonfiction books, legal manuscripts, various Encyclopaedia Britannica products, pop culture and alternative-‐media websites, and marketing collateral.

Stephanie Carmel

Carmel Editing Services

www.stephaniecarmel.com • [email protected]

An experienced copy editor, I specialize in marketing and high-‐tech communications. Core competencies include editing content to ensure it complies with client style guidelines, is appropriate for the target audience, is optimized for search and localization, and meets client objectives. I know the difference between a "stop the presses!" change that must be made and one that's merely nice to have. I understand and foster the relationship between writer and copy editor.

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Kate Karp

Freelancer www.lbpost.com/pets • [email protected] • (562) 212-‐0313

I’ve been sole copy editor for three Arizona lifestyle magazines for 10 years. I copyedit at the heavy level, caption photographs, and check PDFs and final book for errors and consistency, using Adobe Acrobat Professional. For 11 years, I’ve proofread a genre newspaper, School News Roll Call. Duties include light fact checking and writing two columns, one for children’s music and the other about local personalities.

I’ve been a part-‐time proofreader for Teacher Created Materials, an educational-‐ materials publishing company, for more than six years. Although my job title is proofreading, I also fact-‐check, check reference lists for style, make content suggestions, and transfer corrections, insertions, etc. to InCopy. I have 30 years of experience as a teacher and am fluent in Spanish.

Marla Markman

Markman Editorial Services

www.MarlaMarkman.com • [email protected] • 951-‐660-‐0607

I am an award-‐winning editor with 20 years of experience creating and managing books from conception to completion. Markman Editorial Services provides editing, proofreading, book design, indexing, and ghostwriting services for authors, experts, and traditional and self-‐publishers. My clients have gone on to win numerous awards, including a National Indie Excellence Award, a Global eBook Award, and an International Book Award. I specialize in nonfiction, including self-‐help, business, finance, legal, travel, health and wellness, historical, memoir, and cookbooks. Although there is a plethora of information available to self-‐publishers, it can be overwhelming and confusing, but I enjoy guiding authors through the self-‐publishing process. In between book projects, I edit everything from web content and CD packages to recipes, magazine articles and educational materials for clients such as Albertsons, Amacom Books, Build (an off-‐shoot of Inc. magazine), Rhino Entertainment, SCORE, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. I provide a range of editing levels, from copy editing to substantive and

Tammy Ditmore

eDitmore Editorial Services

www.editmore.com • [email protected] • 501-‐I South Reino Road #194 Newbury Park, CA 91320 • (805) 630-‐6809

I provide editing and proofreading to authors, publishers, editors, grad students, and business owners. Specialties include working with nonfiction authors and publishers, academic material in the humanities and social science fields, Christian publishers and writers, and ESL authors. I am familiar with Chicago, APA, MLA, SBL, and AP styles.

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Lori Paximadis

Pax Studio LLC

http://loripax.com • [email protected] • 20515 Bunker Hill Dr. Fairview Park OH 44126

Copyediting, proofreading, and project management since 1991. Specialties include fiction, memoir, trade and academic nonfiction, history, art, crafts, and social sciences.

Molly McCowan

Inkbot Editing, LLC

http://www.inkbotediting.com • [email protected]

Utilizing her background in English, Molly has served on editorial staffs for more than eight years. She has held jobs as a music journalist, editor in chief of a Colorado-‐based music and arts magazine, marketing director, and professional blogger. In addition to owning and operating Inkbot Editing, LLC, she is also the managing editor of a small nonprofit publishing house. Molly specializes in academic copyediting, and has edited nonfiction books, dissertations, research papers, business reports, magazines, websites, quarterly newspapers, marketing materials, online courses, and more. She loves

partnering with writers to ensure that the reader comes first, and that clarity and consistency are top priority. Molly is your partner in good writing—contact her today to see how she can help you!

H.E. Saunders

Just the Write Type

http://www.justthewritetype.com • [email protected]

I specialize in literary manuscript revision and STM (science, technical, medical) editing. With two graduate degrees and years of experience, I am an expert. With an obsession for perfect print bordering on OCD, I am thorough. With passion for editing, I am happy and enjoy making your documents pristine.

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Tracy Wilson-‐Burns

Cascade Indexing & Editorial

www.cascadeIndexing.com •[email protected]

Fiction copy editing and line-‐editing. Non-‐fiction copy editing, line-‐editing, and back-‐of-‐ the-‐book indexing since 2009. Published author. MA in Writing Popular Fiction, Seton Hill University. MA in Communications, Fairfield University. Certificate course in Copy Editing, U.C. San Diego. BS Computer Science, Albright College.

Karen Yin

www.APvsChicago.com • [email protected] • Altadena, CA

I catch what other editors miss℠ . . . since 1992. • E-‐book formatting, design, and conversion

• Copyediting: corporate, advertising, books, magazines, screenplays, teleplays, and résumés

• Proofreading

Herbert E. Swett

[email protected] • (503) 584-‐1508 • 1330 Wallace Road NW, Apt. 60 Salem, OR • 97304-‐3094

"My varied journalism career has involved copy editing for more than 30 years. I am now a freelance writer for several publications in the mid-‐Willamette Valley, especially two weekly newspapers. I also am a medical transcriptionist and recently obtained the status of Certified Healthcare Documentation Specialist. I have a first-‐rate command of the English language, am familiar with several style guides and have many years of experience at writing headlines. My reporting lately has focused on sports but over the years has involved mostly general news."

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