Protect and Project Your Image
Your business documents should reflect the values and standards of your organization and the quality of the products and services you market. Any letter, handout, or other piece of information you put in the hands of potential clients is, in effect, you. Prospects may not read beyond the first few lines if they lack clarity, succinctness, and impact. A polished presentation can make the difference between a business that flourishes and one that falters or even fails.
Simple Solutions
We can help you to project a first-class, professional image with every document you release, both internally and externally. Every writing or editing project, big or small, has our undivided attention, and we honor your deadlines whether you are a one-person operation or represent a corporation with thousands of employees.
Business Writers and Editors
Deanna Brady is a highly versatile freelance writer and editor with more than two decades of experience. Known as an "editor's editor," she ghostwrites, rewrites, develops, and copyedits a wide range of material, including self-help/how-to books, novels (both literary and genre fiction), creative nonfiction, biographies/memoirs, proposals, cover and query letters, articles, essays, scripts, business communications, and Web content. She has written and edited marketing and advertising copy for Fortune 500 companies and is adept at editing ESL and translated text, as well as scientific/technical material. In addition, she specializes in projects concerning spirituality, ecology, Native American Indian culture, psychology, allopathic and complementary medicine, and health, and she particularly enjoys working with& fantasy, science fiction, historical, romance, adventure, mystery, and young adult literature.
Deanna spent more than a decade as a magazine editor. She also taught at California State University for a dozen years, has written several children's textbooks, and is an award-winning author of short fiction and poetry. Her many happy clients greatly appreciate her expertise, gentle guidance, and ability to preserve their individual voices and help make their manuscripts shine.
Esther David-Roland is a writer and editor whose experience includes writing and editing in technical and non-technical subject areas. She has worked as a journalist, writer, and editor for more than 25 years and brings her many years of experience to each project. As a freelance copyeditor, Esther has worked with major publishers, businesses, and individuals, and has worked extensively with authors whose native language is not English.
Recent books she has edited include:
American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War (Dorn), 2007.
Domain Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools (Cook, Jones, Kent, Wills), 2007.
Stock Options and Executive Compensation, Stock Option Alternatives
Cisco Routers for the Desperate: Router Management, The Easy Way (Lucas).
The Linux Enterprise Cluster (Kopper).
ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated (Homer and Sussman)
Advanced Technologies in Biopharmaceutical Processing (Dutton and Scharer)
The Feline Patient: Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment, 3rd Edition (Norsworthy).
* Book editing (nonfiction)
* Developmental editing (nonfiction)
* Manuscript copyediting and proofreading
* Technical, medical, and scientific copyediting
* Website copyediting and proofreading
Debra Fisher is president and owner of an independent education, learning, and communications consulting business. She graduated summa cum laude with majors in English and education from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. With a minor in philosophy, critical thinking permeates all her work as a writing consultant and instructional designer for online learning. She holds a post-baccalaureate certification in instructional design from the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instructions (IBSTPI) and a secondary education teaching certification in English from the State of Arizona.
Jo-Ann Langtree writes and edits books, stories, and articles in the following fields: business, medical, insurance, health, holistic health, spirituality, religion, psychic phenomena, young-adult fiction, children's books, mystical experience, self-help, New Age, nutrition, diet, exercise, saints & masters, gurus, theosophy, Christianity, homeopathy, vitamins & minerals, herbs, and food supplements. She was a writer and editor for Aetna Life & Casualty. As editor of Life NEWS, she had sole responsibility for finding, developing, writing, editing, and proofing all articles. Topics included new products, sales campaigns, insurance-agent interviews, accolades, seminars, Company acquisitions and policies. Jo-Ann also edits personal and business sites.
Tom Grant Lemons is a successful novelist, editorial consultant, publisher, ghostwriter, and managing editor. His historical fiction has won awards and appeared on bestseller lists, and his novels have been translated and published in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Poland.
Tom is passionate about the written word, and he is eager to bring his passion and expertise to your writing project. Authors Tom has worked with include Oliver North, T.D. Jakes, Bob Hamer, Joe Moscheo, and Hamilton Gayden. The fiction and nonfiction books Tom has worked on both as developmental editor and ghostwriter have been published by major houses including Broadman & Holman, Warner Faith Publishing, Hachette/Center Street, and Greenleaf Book Group.
Suzanne Manness teaches technical and business writing. As a freelancer, he has done such projects as writing total electrical manuals for Gulf Power Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Power Company in Atlanta. She has rewritten and redesigned informational brochures for University of West Florida, prepared business proposals, written grants, and designed fundraising booklets for community groups. She has also written computer user manuals and technical instrumentation directions. She is an expert in all documentation systems such as Chicago Style, Harvard, APA, American Anthropological Association, and MLA. Her specialty is taking complex material and translating that material into a clear, concise, audience-friendly document.
Arlene W. Robinson makes complicated terminology interesting, lively, and reader-friendly, and can make your advertising copy irresistible. From Americanization of documents for her international clients to complete policy and procedure manuals, Arlene is sensitive to each client's unique needs and budget, and has a proven track record of client satisfaction. Arlene also offers assistance to business clients who want to produce full-length self-help and how-to books.
Nancy Rosenbaum specializes in writing, proofreading, fact-checking, and editing of business and technical documentation. She has more than 20 years of experience writing and editing technical documentation for industries ranging from computer hardware and software to banking and finance, environmental engineering and heavy/highway construction, pharmaceuticals, consulting, biometrics, and security. Her work has included client-facing materials such as proposals, multi-volume permit applications, user guides, release notes, and marketing copy to internal materials such as functional specifications, test plans with use cases, and progress reports. Nancy has also edited articles on topics including clean technologies, business and marketing, computer science and learning, industrial technology, and other subjects for journals and symposia such as World Congress on Computer Science; Educause Quarterly; IEEE national and international conferences, workshops, and journals; Journal of Computer Security; Journal of Industrial Teacher Education; International Journal of Computer Applications; International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; Eastern Economic Journal; and European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.
Nancy earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Mt. Holyoke College and studied technical documentation and business communications at Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"The network's prompt response detailing potential editors allowed our text to be in the hands of an editing professional in no time. The knowledge, professionalism, and editing service offered by Nancy greatly enhanced the content and flow of the textbook. Additionally, Nancy provided comments and insight that went well beyond the service paid, and returned the ~44,000 word textbook within weeks. I highly recommend the network and Nancy."
"I couldn’t have dreamt of receiving the thoroughness of editing, knowledge, and follow through that was provided by Nancy. She caught an error in my reference list that I would never have found. I don’t know how she did it! I am so pleased!"
Elana Shippen, P.E., is a licensed professional engineer in mechanical engineering At Boeing, she worked as an engineering manager and lead project engineer in their commercial airplanes program. As a consulting engineer, documented design specifications HVAC systems. She edits scientific and technical material such as engineering reports, design specifications, process documents, requests for proposals (RFPs), reference guides, case studies, and mathematics research documents. Elana completed the Technical Writing and Editing Certificate Program at the University of Washington in 2001. She is experienced with various style manuals.
Known for her quick turnaround time and attention to
detail, Melissa Simpson specializes in proofreading, copyediting, and APA and MLA styles. In addition to
addressing issues of organization, grammar, usage, and style, Melissa has a
knack for "tightening up" a document by making sure it is clear and concise.
She can also format headings and page numbers and create tables of contents at
a client's request and always double-checks that parenthetical references parallel
the references/works cited section of a document. She is skilled at ensuring
that documents not only comply with the APA or MLA style guides but also with a
university-specific guide, if applicable.
Melissa's 10+ years of editing experience is based
on a B.A. in English from Hendrix College, where she
graduated summa cum laude with
distinction, and an M.A. in English from Texas Woman's University. She has also
worked as a technical writer and has taught various writing and literature
courses on both the high school and college levels for over 15 years in both
traditional and online classrooms. Her editing work includes numerous
proposals, textbooks, dissertations, theses, academic papers, technical
documents, and journal articles on a broad range of subjects, including
education, psychology, nursing, business, government, speech pathology,
literature, philosophy, economics, and art. She is skilled at meeting the needs
of ESL students as well.
An accomplished writer herself, Melissa has published
many articles and a biography of Southern author Flannery O'Connor. She is
currently a community editor with Little Rock Family magazine, an award-winning magazine for families in central Arkansas.
A. J. Sobczak is an editor, proofreader, and writer (business writing, business methods, business history, communication, literary analysis) with more than
20 years of experience in the publishing industry. He works directly with authors of academic articles and books as well as working for publishers. As an in-house editor for Salem Press (6 years) and freelance editor for Sage Publications (since 1993), along with work for University of California Press, ABC-CLIO, Rowman & Littlefield, and other clients, he has edited dozens of books and journals in various topics in the social and hard sciences, including economics, research methods, mathematics, political science, psychology, business and management, supply chain theory, and history.
He is an expert in APA and Chicago styles and is on several publishers' lists of "go-to" editors for books with mathematical content.. His writing on business and economics has appeared in several reference volumes, and he is the editor of and a contributor to Great Events from History II: Business and Commerce, containing approximately 500 articles on critical events in 20th-century business history.
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