This page presents some of my past and on-going projects and some samples, if I have them.
CopyEditing & Proofreading
- Project Manager and Content and Copy Editor for Lachesis Publishing, Nova Scotia, Canada (www.lachesispublishing.com) (see Book Releases for titles)
- Judge for 2008 Silicon Valley RWA Gotcha! Contest
- Alternate judge EPIC 2009 EPPIES competition (annual award for e-published books)
- Editor (on referral basis) for rebel e Publishers, South Africa
- Edited website content for BasicBlack Bookkeeping (www.basicblackbookkeeping.ca)
- Editor of the Space Opera and Time Travel storylines for The Magazine of Unbelievable Stories, working one-on-one with writers to get their stories ready for publication - since this Magazine has since folded I am preparing the leftover stories to be published as an anthology, one per storyline.
- Editor for Dr. Vanessa S. O'Neal for her non-fiction book "Grant Me the Money"; ongoing work for book-length works, personal projects and articles for her e-zine
- Edited a professional-level document for the Creators Copyright Coalition (Canada)
- Proofread book for Sam Kucey (see transcription)
- Proofread newsletter for Senator Donald H. Oliver, Senate of Canada
Transcription
- Transcriptionist for the UrbanCowgirl.com (webinars and radio programs); I also organize the transcribed material into handouts and training scripts
- 2 1/2 years of transcribing minutes of AGMs and board meetings for The Micronutrient Initiative (Ottawa, Canada)
6 years of oral surgery clinical experience: office documents, treatment plans, letters to patients and referring dentists, personal correspondence, e-mails, minutes and agendas
Transcribed interviews for Sam Kucey for use in a book on Canadian Women's Soccer Team Coach Even Pellerud published 2005
Transcribed handwritten sermons from the 1700s
Transcribed handwritten Native/Government of Canada treaties from the 1800s
Transcribed letters for Senator Donald H. Oliver, Senate of Canada
Article Writing
- Writer of content for dental service websites
- Writer of women's health issues for empowHer.com
- 3 articles published by the Salvation Army in The War Cry and The Salvationist (Canada)
- Wrote three-way rewrites of article and "spun" for use on a variety of websites (on original content only)
- Wrote 12-article series on Indoor Air Quality
- Wrote 3 articles on snowmobiles and 2 articles on Motorized scooters
Website content writing/editing
- Copywriter for TheSearchGuru.com
- Wrote SEO web content and blog posts for clients of webPromoSEO (Toronto) - 4 months (see www.number9.ca and the blog posts for April for samples)
- Write own content for personal blog (http://girlfriendnetwork.blogspot.com) and http://everydaybloggers.blogspot.com
- "Personalize" dental website information for a variety of dental websites including press releases; topics include: dental implants, sedation dentistry, root canals.
Speechwriting/Ghostwriting
- Ghostwriting pastoral book
- Wrote speeches and Senator's Statments for Senator (Dr.) Wilbert Keon and Senator Terry Stratton; compiling information from research into an oral presentation
Document Duplication and Design
Designed
letterhead for Dr. Helmut Ragnitz, and myself.
Newsletters & Brochures
- Wrote, designed and proofread Senator Stratton's 2006 newsletter.
- Designed sales brochure for personal use