Ten Years’ Corporate Experience. One Sharp Editor. Whether you need developmental editing for your book draft or a detail-oriented pair of eyes to proof your galleys, you can count on me. With more than ten years’ experience as a full-time staff proofreader for a major global law firm in San Francisco, I’ve edited everything from biographies to scientific abstracts to magazine galleys. Let’s talk about your vision for your mission-critical text and the role I can play in maximizing its impact. I look forward to hearing from you. I have: - Developmentally edited a full-length spirituality book for submission to an agent - Developmentally edited the full-length biography of a high-profile lawyer - Developed style sheets for projects and in-house departments - Presented programs on proofreading basics to in-house departments Highlights: - Chicago Manual of Style proficiency - ESL text correction/elevation - UK, US, and EU English proficiency - Eye for punctuation, style, formatting, and sense - Extreme attention to detail I have edited: - Marketing collateral - Scientific abstracts - Correspondence - Patent filings - Keynote speech slides I catch: - Incorrect usage of words like comprise - One character in the wrong font or size - En dashes versus em dashes - A piece of punctuation incorrectly italicized - An incorrect or missing diacritic in a foreign word - A second space between words - Inconsistent punctuation in a bulleted list Software skills: - MS Word - Scrivener