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