If you're looking for someone to take your manuscript to a professional level so it's ready for submission to publishers, I can help you organize your text and and enhance the development of your ideas and concepts so your work invites the reader to want to read more. From conception of the idea to design, I oversaw image acquisition, permissions editing, proofreading, sales and marketing. I created my own small press in 1993 to publish a fine art-appointed engagement calendar, Return of the Goddess that I distributed internationally prior to licensing it to a larger publisher. I began as a technical editor in the science industry and branched off into working with creative manuscripts, dissertations, memoirs, and art books. I'm also a tour guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum.Īfter thirty years of professional experience - editing, writing, and publishing, I still love working with words.
My latest projects have taught me even more about Greek goddesses, Emily Dickinson, and African elephants. When I'm not writing, I lead writing workshops for children and adults and edit the work of other authors. I live in the woods of western Massachusetts where hawks soar and owls glide and the sunlight dapples the forest floor. When I discovered that there was a time on Earth when women and girls were considered sacred, I wrote a book about goddesses from many cultures so girls would know about the powers that have been attributed to female deities from prehistoric times till now. When I found out that Emily Dickinson had a playful relationship with the children in her life, I wrote a middle grade verse novel about her inviting them to meet her at midnight to watch the circus train arrive in town. I write about topics I want other people to know about. My favorite book was (and still is) the dictionary. My favorite place was the school library, where I read everything on Greek mythology.
I began collecting words as a child: night words, flight words, colors, textures, water words, even contractions.
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