With seventeen years of editing experience and two graduate degrees that have honed my literary instincts, I value the written word highly as the best effective mode of creative expression, interpersonal communication, and exploration of possibility. My editorial work has helped bring success to authors of long- and short-form fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and experimental genre blends. Some of my professional passions include exquisitely crafted syntax, perfectly placed line breaks, and the Oxford comma. On a more personal note, I love tea and Broadway musicals, am a stubbornly optimistic hobby gardener, and routinely subject myself to the whims of two cats and two dogs.
As an editor and a researcher, I am always wholly engaged in the book--my communication with the author is constant, prompt, and can span hours of real-time conversation wherein we closely examine nuances of style, tone, and diction together. I make it a point to have a quick turnaround for each stage of a project, keenly aware that time is currency in the professional literary world. Though I consider myself an expert writer and reader, I respect the author as artist: the end product will always reflect the author's creative autonomy and vision.
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