Gillian Bagwell

Berkeley, CA USA
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Professional Experience

Writer and editor, adept at completing projects on deadline and with attention to detail. I copyedit fiction for Samhain Publishing and provide substantive editing and copyediting to freelance clients. I’m the author of three historical novels and have written much non-fiction in many areas.

Expertise

Copy Editor
2 Years
Book Author
8 Years
Writer
20 Years

Specialty

Books & Literature
8 Years
Law
25 Years
Theater
20 Years

Industries


Marketing (in-house) - Small to mid-sized corp. cl
10 Years
Book Publishing Consumer
8 Years
Other
25 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

25 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Samhain Publishing (10+)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

DepoSums (10+), Steve Fisher Deposition Summaries (10+), Epstein Becker & Green (1-2)

Other Work History

Founder and producing artistic director, Pasadena Shakespeare Company, 1993-2003. More than twenty years of experience summarizing transcripts of depositions and other legal proceedings on topics that are frequently technical and complex, in litigation involving business, finance, medical issues, science and technology, labor, construction defects, intellectual property, entertainment industry, law, finance, and economics, including much testimony by expert witnesses.

Foreign Language Skills

Some Spanish; a little French and Italian.

Unions

Actors' Equity Association, SAG/AFTRA.

Computer Skills

Word, WordPerfect, Windows 8, Microsoft Publisher

References

Imogen Howson, Editorial Supervisor, Samhain Publishing Heather Osborn, Editorial Director, Samhain Publishing

Associations

Bay Area Editors' Forum, Historical Novel Society, Historical Writers' Association, Romance Writers of America, Shakespeare Theatre Association

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Writing Samples

I wrote this article for the History in an Hour blog, as part of the commemoration of the the seventieth anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation in World War II.