Fields

• sciences, particularly molecular biology & medicine
• travel guides
• religion
• cooking, wine
• gardening
• how-to & crafts

Skills

• copyediting and edit clean-up
• hard copy (including tagging)
• electronic (including revision tracking)
• indexing
• back-of-the-book
• database indexing
• proofreading

Style Manuals I Have Worked With:

• American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th Edition
• The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th and 15th Editions
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition
• Recipes into Type

Current and Past Clients Include:

• AAA World
• Angelus Press
• Ave Maria Press
• Broadway Books/Doubleday Books
• Gold Rush Games
• Hermitage Publishing Services
• Houghton Mifflin
• Indiana University Press
• John Wiley and Sons /TechBooks (For Dummies & Frommer's books)
• Libreria Editrice Vaticana
• Marble Institute of America
• Prima Tech
• Sapienta Press at Ave Maria College
• Stackpole Books
• State University of New York Press
• Sunset Publishing
• Thomson Delmar Publishing
• Tyr Publishing

List of publications worked on can be found here.

Professional Affiliations and Activities

• American Society for Indexing (2000-2008)
• 2001-2002 Vice-President/Program Chair Golden Gate chapter
• Culinary SIG
  
• Gardening/Environmental Studies SIG
• Scholarly Indexing SIG
• Science/Medicine SIG

• "What If I Can't Be in Two Places at Once?" In Entry Points, 17:3 (August 2000). (article)

Educational Background

• Entrepreneurial Training Program
  Greater Sacramento Small Business Development Center
• Beginning Indexing
  USDA Graduate School Correspondence Course
• M.A. Molecular and Cellular Biology
  University of California Berkeley
• B.S. Biochemistry, magna cum laude
  University of Nevada-Reno

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Last updated: January 19, 2012

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