Shamontiel V.
Chicago, IL
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Top Rated Plus
18-year journalist/editor (Does not ghostwrite or do flat-rate jobs)
$50.00/hr
Thank you for visiting my profile. I have had the pleasure of being on Upwork since 2014.
I am a full-time freelancer with 18 years of journalism experience, 17 years of editing experience (largely Associated Press style), 15 years of digital editing experience (including intermediate HTML coding), seven years in mid-level management roles (largely for magazines and publishing teams) and 24 years of social media experience.
From part-time freelancer to full-time freelancer, I am grateful for any invite I receive. However, transparency is the best way to find suitable candidates (and long-term) clients.
These HOURLY-ONLY jobs are the kinds of projects that make me leap to my laptop to apply:
* Financial literacy and financial news copy (editing and writing)
* Legal copy (editing and writing)
* Real estate copy (editing and writing)
* K-12 literature and books (LOVE African- and African-American history books)
* Adult-education books and tech tutorials (editing finance/investing and real estate books are my favorites)
* National and world news, political news (editing, fact-checking, writing)
* Dog-related content of any kind (editing and writing)
* Healthy eating and nutrition topics that focus on veganism and vegetarianism (editing and writing)
Ideal Client: My CliftonStrengths results are Achiever, Command, Executor and Influencer, meaning I excel in leadership positions with minimal supervision. I thrive in virtual work environments with serious clients who are deadline-driven and ready to start! My long-term clients are quite fond of Upwork Messenger, Slack, Asana, Loom and/or email as a primary way to connect. They almost always (as in 99% of the time) have the same outlook as Mark Cuban regarding long/daily meetings; if it's not absolutely necessary, we rarely if ever have them.
Does that describe you? I'd love to hear from you then.
Work History
Editorial Copy Editor Needed
Dec 28, 2022
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Jun 28, 2023
No feedback given
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Content Editor - Copy Editing
May 2, 2023
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May 19, 2023
No feedback given
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Versatile Content Writer/Researcher with Tremendous Attention to Detail
5.00
Nov 7, 2022
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Dec 4, 2022
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Blog Post Editor
Oct 17, 2022
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Nov 20, 2022
No feedback given
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Final Copy Editing for Children’s Book
5.00
Jul 4, 2022
"Shamontiel responded to my invite quickly and gave excellent and prompt feedback on my work. She was very accessible for any additional questions I had, and was very precise and thorough with her corrections and suggestions. She was also excellent in Taylor ing her edits to fit my specific genre and target audience. Without question, I will definitely use her services again."
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Website Ad Copy
5.00
May 13, 2022
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May 16, 2022
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Strong writer to help create/modify copy for our company profile brochure
Feb 20, 2022
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Feb 22, 2022
No feedback given
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Edit two page of acknowledgment
5.00
Dec 19, 2021
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Policy Documents Copy Editor Needed--SHORT TURNAROUND
Dec 9, 2021
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Dec 16, 2021
No feedback given
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[ER] debate speech writing Pro & Con
5.00
Oct 22, 2021
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Seeking a skilled fact-checker to review email marketing content
Feb 15, 2022
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Present
Job in progress
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Skills
- Fact-Checking
- Developmental Editing
- General Transcription
- Slack
- AP Style Writing
- Document Review
- Track Changes
- Newspaper
- Content Management
- Magazine
- Google Docs
- Proofreading
- Asana