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With over 200 successful freelance projects completed in the past five years on Upwork and a track record of consistently high client satisfaction, I bring both experience and reliability to every job. I’ve spent 25+ years helping clients tell their stories, elevate their brands, and communicate clearly—across industries and platforms. What I Do Best: • Book editing (40+ titles and counting!) • Article & blog writing (including incorporating SEO) • Web & social media content • Press releases & white papers • Training manuals, scripts, and more I’ve served as the managing editor for trade magazines, a medical journal (my current role), and a community newspaper—so I know how to manage content at every stage, from brainstorm to polished publication. I also bring graphic design skills to the table when needed, creating eye-catching layouts and visuals that support your message. Industries I’ve Worked In: Healthcare, insurance, B2B/B2C business, nonprofits, science, politics, tech, pet care, religion, and more. I'm always learning—and that’s one of my favorite parts of the job! Clients say I’m: ✓ Reliable and responsive ✓ Detail-oriented but deadline-driven ✓ Collaborative, curious, and easy to work with On the personal side, I’m a military spouse, proud mom to two grown kids, and pet parent to a senior dog and a handful of foster-fail cats. Let’s talk about how I can help bring your next project to life!

With degrees in broadcast journalism and advertising, I have worked in marketing and journalism. I also worked as a marketing and revisions editor at New Degree Press, helping authors prepare their manuscripts for publication. My previous work includes press releases, top-ranking website copy, social media posts, and many other types of content. I also offer editing and proofreading services for authors and have edited both fiction and non-fiction books.

5 years as a Copywriter, Journalist, and Content Creator. Previous 3-year Creative Director for a retail card game company, encompassing product development, marketing, graphic design, sales, manufacturing, management, and e-commerce. Current Strategic Marketing Lead for a marketing agency. Skills: - Copywriting - Editing - AI Literacy - Klaviyo Email Marketing - Marketing Strategy - Graphic Design - Product Development - GTM Strategy - Shopify Management & Customization - Media Buying Management - MS Office - LandingCube - Replo

As a Top-Rated writer with a 100% Job Success Score, I specialize in helping brands move beyond 'random acts of content' and start building clean, organized writing systems that perform and scale. Here is what it looks like when we work together: ➤ Content that Connects the Dots: Instead of writing isolated, one-off blog posts that never seem to rank, I build content clusters. Essentially, we create one big, authoritative pillar page about your main topic and a series of smaller, highly focused blog posts to support it (which link to one another where appropriate). Search engines love this cluster approach because it allows them to see the full scope of your expertise, and it keeps visitors clicking through your site. ➤ Structure That Supports Search: I will use your targeted keywords to write a clean, optimized draft that's ready to publish. My drafts feature logical heading hierarchy, skim-friendly formatting, and strategically placed internal links. You get publish-ready content that's easier for search engines to crawl, readers to skim and your editors to review, upload and publish. ➤ Writing that Works: Once the structure is set, I focus on writing it clean. If your brand is selling something complex or trying to explain something convoluted, sciencey, technical, whatever—I wordify it into simple, confident English. I write in a way that makes your buyers feel related to and informed, not confused, overwhelmed, or sold to. Content strategy is hard. I can help make it easier. Message me to get started!

It is lovely to meet you, and I am keen to help with all research, writing, and editorial needs. I am especially interested in helping to tell personal stories. I am an historian by both training and profession. For two decades, I have studied legal, political, and rhetorical histories, and I have often used biography as a lens into these. I have decided to bring this experience to Upwork in order to better serve people who wish to write about their lives and world. In this process of my research, I have worked with families and individuals to help them tell their stories, often including difficult retelling. I excel in helping the individual story to shine while also contextualizing it within a bigger picture. My additional strengths lie in research and argument crafting, as well as all stages of the writing process--from drafts to writing to copy-editing and proofreading. Much of my work has focused on telling and helping to tell very personal and often sensitive stories. I have also written dozens of successful grant applications to fund my work and can assist you with your applications as well. I am primarily a writer, but I also serve as a reviewer and an editor for academic presses. I have experience in writing for academic audiences as well as for the general public. I am keen to help make your work more appealing, readable, and public facing. I have worked internationally and in the US, so I enjoy assisting with cultural translation. My experience includes planning and leading international study opportunities, and I hope to bring these travel planning skills to my Upwork clients. While my particular interests lie within these fields, I look forward to working outside of them as well. Additionally, I am a college professor so am well trained and equipped to coach writers toward specific goals in a way that is accessible and easy to understand. Overall, I hope to help you craft more engaging interactions with the world around you during whatever stage you need.

If you're looking for a lowest-common-denominator editor that will take your work, run it through an automated grammar checker, and toss it back to you, I am not the person for you. If you want someone who will treat your work as if it were their own, nurture it, and make it bloom to its full potential, we should talk! I thoroughly enjoy fixing phrases that might not sound quite right, building more descriptive text in areas you feel need improvement, and ensuring consistency of flow and structure. Proofreader: I've corrected spelling, grammar, and punctuation for hundreds of items, from one-page letters to epic-length novels. The subjects range from simple children's books to quantum mechanics and everything in between. If unsure about a topic, I don't hesitate to ask the client questions about the text to ensure a phrase conveys the intended meaning. Senior Editor: As the sole text editor for DracoArts Studio since February 2003, my responsibilities include: Writing copy for advertisements and newspaper articles Editing the text of my own and others' articles Writing promotional materials and slogans Participating in marketing brainstorming Critiquing marketing designs My skills contribute to improved marketing campaigns for the companies whose promotions in which I participate. That work included proofreading County Woman Magazine, a monthly multi-subject edition of 48-64 pages. I consistently improved the quality of the articles I edited. Books: Besides being a published fiction and non-fiction author, I have edited and written copy for over twenty years. I thoroughly enjoy the detail required for such work, even in cases where the original author has little knowledge of grammar or even English language usage. I have successfully copy, line, and developmentally edited manuscripts up to 150,000 words. Children's Books: As one of my favorite subjects to work on, I have written, edited, or developmentally edited over eighty children's books for ages 4-16. This work includes numerous foreign writers who wanted to make their text work for English speakers and ESL (English as Second Language) readers for ages 4-11. Your work will not be handed off to someone you've never spoken to after you hire me, like many of the expensive agencies that make grandiose promises. All work and communication will be done directly with me. I will be far from the least costly freelancer you could find on Upwork, but my experience and expertise are worth the extra investment.