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Do you have an article, story, or book length manuscript that needs a critical eye?  I offer line-by-line proofreading and story critiquing.  Do you have an interview or recording but no time to type it up?  Do you need a report, a resume, newsletter, ad, manual, brochure, book, booklet, or mailer?  Need a website or have an event that needs a promo page?  Want to use social media sites like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, etc., but unsure how? I do this, and more, all in a timely manner and with reasonable fees.

SERVICES:

• Virtual Personal Assistant
• Online Office & Secretarial
• Full line-by-line editing
• Proofreading
• Transcription of recorded meetings, interviews, classes (microcassette, CD/DVD or digital recording)
Document duplication and design
Newsletter and pamphlet writing and design
Website content writing and editing, creation & maintenance
Website domain, subdomain, and email hosting
Website Optimization (SEO)
Letters: cover, query, form
Critiques
Ghostwriting
Customized social media planning & optimization

EXPERIENCE:

Writing: I’ve published: articles with FYI Television Features, The Fort Worth Examiner, poetry, & short stories.   I have written technical manuals, assembly instructions, test instructions, company manuals, and quality manuals for corporations like Tandy Electronics, Dallas Semiconductor (now Maxim), & Alliance Data Systems.

Websites: I create and maintain websites, especially websites for authors.  The most recent websites I’ve created are:

• Laurie Moore, author of several police procedural series, including the Constable series (Constable’s Run, Constable’s Apprehension, Constable’s Wedding), Dallas/Ft. Worth TV Series (Woman Strangled, News at Ten), and her Police Detective Series (Jury Rigged).
• NTSFW, the website for the North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop located in Ft. Worth, Texas.
• Candace Havens, a best selling and award-winning author as well as a nationally syndicated entertainment columnist for FYI Television and veteran journalist. (The Demon King & I, Charmed & Deadly, and more.)
• Britta Coleman, an award-winning author, essayist, teacher and speaker, and author of Potter Springs.

EDITING: I’m currently

• editor & search engine optimizer (SEO) for The Search Guru
• a copyeditor at Cyberwizard Publications
• the Forth Worth Writing Examiner
• freelance editor and proofreader
• editor for the newsletter of a local chapter of RWA
• editor for an anthology due out in 2009 (The 28th Dimension: Tales from the Texas Zone)

CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS:

• board member for North Texas Romance Writers
• newsletter editor for North Texas Romance Writers
• former board member of the DFW Writers’ Workshop
• former newsletter editor of the DFW Writers’ Workshop
• founder & organizer for the North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop
• Committee Member for the organization of the DFW Writers’ Workshop Writers’ Conference

AND MORE:

I have created, organized, and moderate several online and live writers’ workshops.  Some of the online workshops are:

• DFW_Authors ~ for writers in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas
• Fiction-Workshop ~ for fiction writers world-wide
• NTRWA ~ for members of the North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop
• SFF_Writers ~ for Science Fiction & Fantasy writers world-wide
• SFF_Texas ~ for Science Fictoin & Fantasy writers in the Texas area
• Texas-Writers ~ information and networking for Texas area writers, editors, agents, publishers
• Texas Writers Classifieds ~ writers resources including freelance writing & editing jobs, publishing & marketing news, special events, booksignings, workshops, writing contests, and seminars.
• Writing & Publishing ~ for writers, editors, agents, & publishers all around the world.

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