Faith Hickman Brynie specializes in science and health, especially for children and young adults. She has a Ph.D. in science curriculum and instruction, and she is an experienced editor of science activity books, trade books for middle school and high school, and textbooks K-12. She has worked for major publishers as writer, substantive editor, developmental editor, copyeditor, and fact checker. She excels at communicating complex ideas clearly and simply.

She loves fiction, and has written three novels, all published by Geneses under a pseudonym. She has won several contests and awards for her short fiction, which has been published in such magazines as Thema, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Midnight Zoo, Aberrations, Over My Dead Body!, Haunts, and others. She critiques mainstream, science fiction, horror, and mystery manuscripts, helping authors develop their characters, plot, dialogue, voice, and style. She also does developmental editing and copyediting of fiction manuscripts.

Faith is booking for March 1, 2009.

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Diane L. Foose has 20 years of experience as a full-time freelance copy editor and proofreader of books and journals in the fields of medicine and health, engineering, mathematics, law, the environment, and the social sciences. Some of the journals she has worked on are The Journal of Legal Medicine, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, Health Care for Women International, Ocean Development and International Law, Comparative Strategy, Traffic Injury Prevention, and Numerical Heat Transfer. Diane's assignments require an in-depth knowledge of editorial practices, familiarity with specific editorial styles (Chicago, APA, AMA), an understanding of scientific and technical terms, and the ability to handle tables, figures, equations, and other materials.

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Les Foxman has been a public relations professor at Utah State University and the University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in journalism and mass communication (MLA) from Ohio University.

He empathizes with those undertaking extensive writing projects, and he is willing to help writers meet the challenge at virtually any stage of the writing process — from selecting topics to framing good research questions to organizing content and to presenting results and conclusions in clear, detailed language. He is comfortable in a fairly wide realm of topics, which extend beyond public relations, including journalism history, popular culture, criticism, integrated marketing communication, public policy issue management, crisis communication, and media message planning and management for organizations.

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Kate Johnson is a developmental editor and rewriting specialist. She has edited nonfiction books, textbooks, encyclopedia and journal articles, technical manuals, conference proceedings, newsletters, and online publications in a wide range of topics for professional, academic, and lay audiences. She especially enjoys working with medical, biological, and other natural science materials. Kate earned her BA in psychobiology from Yale University and did post-graduate coursework in anatomy at CCRI. She has worked with students and professors--including many for whom English is a second language--to refine research articles, grant proposals, and dissertations. She is literate in scientific and medical terminology, familiar with various style requirements (such as Chicago, AMA, and GPO), and adaptable to authors' or publishers' preferences.

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Jennifer Kennedy offers nearly a decade of copyediting, proofreading, and fact-checking experience helping authors polish scholarly texts and journal articles. Her topics of expertise include science, medicine, and law. She has worked on full-length texts on medical genetics and journals such as The American Journal of Dermatopathology, Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, and The Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. She also worked on Lippincott Williams and Wilkins' Current Opinion series, which covers a wide range of medical/science topics from cardiology to oncology. In addition to AMA style, she has also mastered APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in English/Professional Writing, then went on to law school, where she focused on copyright law. She approaches each project with the goal of keeping the author's voice and message intact while communicating as effectively as possible with the intended reader.

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Herbert M. Levine focuses on nonfiction books and articles. Publishers of books include St. Martin's Press, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, M.E. Sharpe, Franklin Watts, Wadsworth, Regnery, and the University of North Texas Press. His books consist of trade books for the general public, college texts, a biography, and young adult publications. The subject matter of these books includes American government, state and local government, world politics, terrorism, arms control, state and local government, public administration, civil liberties, gun control, illegal drugs, chemical and biological weapons, and immigration. His articles have appeared in newspapers, magazines, journals, and reference books (including an encyclopedia). From 1999-2004 he served as a consultant for book projects on counterterrorism and evaluated and edited the work of academics and former government officials that appeared in these works. He holds a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University. He taught courses in American government, international relations, arms control, U.S. foreign policy, and introduction to politics.

Formats: APA, Chicago/Turabian

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Ron Marmarelli is a specialist in nonfiction, especially biography, history, and literary journalism, with expertise in scholarly writing and documentation (MLA, Chicago/Turabian, APA). He also is experienced in editing fiction manuscripts, especially historical fiction and literary fiction, and can assist in preparation of book proposals, synopses, and queries. He is a published biographer and historian, a former newspaper journalist, and a university professor who also has been a freelance editor since 2000. He has taught university courses in writing and editing for more than 20 years, has written more than 20 biographical articles for reference works, and has written articles, essays, and book reviews for anthologies and journals. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism and has done doctoral work in American studies.

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Holly Monty, a professional copy editor, holds a M.A. in linguistics from Rice University and a B.A. with honors in nonfiction writing from the Johns Hopkins University. She has worked as a copy editor within the scientific/technical/medical peer-reviewed journal industry for over 5 years and has extensive experience copyediting scientific and social science texts ranging from articles to theses to book manuscripts. Ms. Monty's copyediting expertise extends beyond the word level to encompass figure, table, and mathematical and chemical equation editing. Ms. Monty specializes in the APA and Chicago editorial styles.

"Holly was FANTASTIC. She was SO thorough and submitted everything back to me earlier than I needed it! Even after she was done with the edit, I had some questions, and she was very speedy in her responses. I appreciate that she took time to answer my questions. She really went above and beyond! My paper not only needed to follow APA guidelines, but my university had guidelines as well. She did both perfectly."
—Nicole Foster, Trinity International University.

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James N. Powell, with MA degrees in both English Literature and Religious Studies, is a former Professor of English Literature. He has been editing, coaching, and tutoring writers and students for over 33 years. He was inhouse APA proofreader of doctoral dissertations at the Fielding University. He excels at working with international / ESL students. Specializing in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles, he has proofread hundreds of doctoral dissertations and papers. He is an internationally published writer, with books issued by major houses: Prentice Hall, William Morrow, and Hosei University Press (Japan).

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Melissa Simpson is a writing instructor at Hendrix College and in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Distance Learning program who specializes in teaching academic writing and business and technical communication. She is skilled in MLA, APA, and Chicago manuals of style, and for several years she worked as a technical writer for DataPath Inc., a company that produces administrative software for cafeteria plans. Her work included writing, editing and testing educational/tutorial manuals and users' manuals. She has edited many other documents, including resumes, application letters, fiction and non-fiction books, textbooks, bibliographies, theses, and dissertations. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English from Texas Woman's University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction in English (summa cum laude) from Hendrix College. She is also a published author whose biography of author Flannery O'Connor was published in 2005.

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A. J. Sobczak is an editor, proofreader, and writer (business writing, business methods, business history, communication, literary analysis) with more than 18 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 holds an MA in economics from UCLA, has done graduate-level coursework in mathematics, and taught economics at California State University, Northridge, for 4 years.

He is an expert in APA and Chicago styles and is on several publishers' lists of "go-to" editors for manuscripts with heavy math 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.

Formats: APA, Chicago

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Donald Wells has more than 18 years experience as an editor and writer. He has edited for and written with accountants, agriculture researchers, economists, educational researchers, educational psychologists, engineers, historians, lawyers, Master's students, nurse researchers, nutritionists, PhD candidates, philosophers, political scientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, soil scientists, UN experts, university professors, and veterinarians. He has edited more than 200 published journal articles, some of which have won awards, many dissertations and theses, annotated bibliographies, reference books, textbooks, and academic, engineering, government, and scientific reports.

He is an expert in APA style, Chicago Manual of Style, and MLA format and is familiar with AMA. He has extensive experience with ESL writers. Don is dedicated to maintaining the individual voice of the writer, and he follows two rules of style: A document must be clear and concise. He has found that these two rules of style produce documents that are elegant and professional.

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1. Your agreement, whether oral or written, is with your thesis or dissertation editor/consultant, not with the network as a whole or its coordinator.

2. It is the client's responsibility to review all work completed to ensure accuracy and adherence to specifications.

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