Editing Portfolio

Because I am a writer as well as an editor and translator, words are the most important things to me.  They represent ideas, feelings, stories, and hopes, and so I want the words I write to be immaculate.  I want the same thing for those who ask me to help them edit, revise, and/or index their projects.  These are a few of the people whom I’ve helped to create immaculate writing:

1. David Stuart, author of Anasazi America (2000), The Guaymas Chronicles (2003), The Ecuador Effect* (2007), Flight of Souls* (2008), Angel of Vilcabamba* (2009), The Morganza, 1967* (2009), and others

(Titles marked with an * are books I helped Dr. Stuart to edit)

When I met Dr. Stuart years ago, he’d never written a novel—only textbooks and scholarly essays for academic journals.  So when he produced an entire first draft on a stack of yellow legal pads, I was both astonished and excited to work with him on developing his handwritten pages into a finished novel with a strong, focused voice.  That was The Ecuador Effect. Stuart went on to write two more novels and a memoir, and I was his lucky typist, editor, and reviser.

2. Gary Glazner, author of Sparking Memories: The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Anthology (2005), How to Make a Life as a Poet (2007), among others

Glazner had an idea to take his nationally-recognized poetry project, the APP, in which he worked with Alzheimer’s patients to recall childhood stories and poems, and expand it to include Spanish-speaking patients who live with the disease.  He had already compiled and edited a book of poetry in English, and needed an equivalent anthology in Spanish.

I helped Glazner to compile, edit, and translate a bilingual edition, called Nútreme Hoy, No en la Muerte.  The Spanish anthology debuted in May, 2010.  See this page for more information and an excerpt from the book.

3. Diane Thiel, author of several books of poetry and nonfiction, including Echolocations (2000), Resistance Fantasies (2004), and American Fugue (2008)

Thiel is also the creator of two creative writing textbooks, Crossroads and Open Roads (2005), both of which I indexed and formatted the tables of contents.

4. Anna Redsand, author of Viktor Frankl:  A Life Worth Living (2006)

Redsand’s first book is an intriguing, glossy-paged biography containing many photos, maps, and other images.  For Redsand, I helped compile, edit, and format the images she needed to send on to her publishers, Clarion Books.