A Better Editor ^SM

Professional proofreading/copy editing to fit your budget and meet your deadline! Business correspondence, reports; personal writing, letters, memoirs; Web site proofing/navigation; and APA style theses, dissertations, bibliographies, and journal articles.

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Thanks for visiting A Better Editor ^SM and my Web site.

I enjoy editing in all forms, and I learn a lot from every author. You have the knowledge, experience, and expertise. I honor and respect that. I work with you to polish your work because you have worked on it so much you are too close to it!

I will consider almost any type of manuscript except obscenity, pornography, sexist, racist, or hate material, and complicated formulas, technical terms, and numerical content.

My background includes a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in Humanism and Cultural Change, an M.Div from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Counseling and Health Ministry from The Union Institute and University. My dissertation was Ministry Needs in Adult-Onset Chronic Illness (APA style).

I was a weekly newspaper columnist for The United Methodist Reporter for five years. I also served five years as editor of an international newsletter, The ACPE Research Network Newsletter, for CPE Supervisors, Chaplains, Pastors, and others in Ministry who are interested in many different kinds of research.

I had both an invited editorial and an article published in the Journal of Pastoral Care, Spring and Fall issues, 1995. My special interests are the humanities and social sciences, ministry, research, counseling, and business/personal coaching. I am also on a journey to find ways to help bring peace and harmony with equity and justice to individuals, families, schools, congregations, communities, countries, and the whole planet through my SavvyTalk Skills program.

My dissertation was in APA (3rd edition) style. APA then went to a 4th edition that I used extensively. I now have the APA 5th edition for those who need it. I am also familiar with several other style manuals. Along with editing, I continue to write for myself (a novel and a couple of other books in progress!) as well as for others. I know I need an editor for my own writing because I am just too close to it! I also understand the back and forth process involved in getting published.

Some time ago, I copy edited a story-article for a Viet Nam vet about his experience in service there. I learned a lot! In addition, I enjoyed working with a number of graduate students on their Masters' Theses in nursing. I enjoyed editing the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) catalog for six years and the Bay Business Journal of the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce nearly that long, too. Although I am basically retired now, I still keep my hand in. I just really enjoy it!

Good editing takes time. Please don't wait until the last minute and then want a miracle. I am fresh out!

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Telephone 1-800-301-8847 (near Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA)

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