Freelance Editors
The University Writing Center provides the following list as a service to Texas A&M students; however, we are not responsible for discontinued e-mail accounts or changes in contact information. The University Writing Center neither endorses nor recommends any particular editor. Please contact individual editors to establish protocol and pay rates.
Always Write Proofreading and Editing Services
Email: writingspecialist@alwayswrite.us
Phone: (936) 825-1900
Education: BA and MA in English
Experience: Our service has two editors, each with at least 5 years paid editing experience with business documents (websites, newsletters, reports, etc.), books, scholarly articles, papers, and theses/ dissertations from a variety of fields. We have experience with electronic and hardcopy manuscript editing for content, organization, consistency, grammar, format, and documentation. Each editor also has extensive college-level teaching and tutoring experience. Editing services are available for graduate level and above. Visit www.alwayswrite.us for information and pricing.
BELS
The Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (http://www.bels.org/) offers a certification examination for editors in the life sciences.
Dawne Brooks, owner
Brooks Media Services
Email: dawne@brooksmediaservices.com
(614) 747-0212
15 years of experience in all aspects of journalism, from editing and writing to publishing and layout. Has worked for the last 10 years as an editor for teacher education textbooks, university course content editing, and master’s and doctoral candidate dissertations and other college papers. Extensive knowledge of AP, APA, Chicago, MLA and Turabian styles.
Linda Crenwelge, Administrative Assistant and former Associate Editor of Choices Magazine and the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Email: lsc@tamu.edu
Home: (979) 574-1843 Work: (979) 845-5223
Editing for spelling, grammar, consistency, reference check, journal style, and Thesis Manual guidelines. Proofreading of dissertations, theses, proposals, technical articles, journal galleys, etc. Twenty-six years of technical editing experience.
Bill Darnall, freelance writer, editor, and trainer. Owner of Writing and Training, Inc.
Company: Writing and Training, Inc.
Email: Bill@WritingAndTraining.com
Phone: (714) 751-6007
Education: MBA and BSEE
Bill Darnall is a professional communicator with 25+ years of experience. He crafts timely, cost-effective documents and provides training that satisfies users’ needs. He has in-depth experience in financial, business, high-technology product development, project management, and aerospace documentation. Get help with business documents, material for websites, newsletters, reports, books, scholarly articles, papers, and theses/ dissertations from any field.
Susan Dean
Email: asdean96@suddenlink.net
Phone: (979) 676-1405
Education: M.S. in Entomology
Experience: 5 years experience in editing theses, dissertations and scientific and technical publications for content, consistency, grammar and format. Please email for more information and pricing.
Suzanne Elvidge
Website: http://www.pharmawrite.co.uk/page007.html
Email: suzanne.elvidge@pharmawrite.co.uk
UK-based freelance writer and editor, with almost 20 years experience in publishing, journalism and communications. Specializes in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, and in business and marketing material, but happy to work in any field.
Allison Esposito
Email: AiEsposito@aol.com
Phone: (972) 617-8709
Education: Packer Collegiate Institute (New York), New York University, graduate courses at Harvard University
Experience: Professional copyeditor with more than 20 years experience copyediting journal articles, textbooks, dissertations, and other documents for the Harvard Business Review, Oxford University Press, Elsevier, and others. Copyediting in the arts and sciences, including architecture, tourism, and other special interests; technical copyediting in engineering and computer science applications; and medical copyediting in human medicine, including emergency medicine, teaching textbooks, and nursing, for American Medical Association, American Heart Association, American College of Emergency Physicians, Elsevier Mosby, Nature, and others, and in veterinary medicine for Wiley-Blackwell, Elsevier Saunders, and others. I work on electronic files and provide edited files with revisions marked as well as clean copies and will adapt articles to APA, AMA, Chicago, and other editorial styles for submission. I enjoy working with authors for whom English is a second language. I will provide a 1-page copyedited sample of your dissertation at no charge. Please e-mail for more information.
Jan Gerston, Technical Editor
Website: http://user.txcyber.com/~indigo
Email: jan.gerston@verizon.net
Phone: (979) 779-0262
25 years of experience in technical writing and editing, specializing in engineering and the sciences. Experienced with tables, special characters, and mathematical formulas. B.S. in Journalism.
Debbie Hobson
Email: proofreadeditor@aol.com
Phone: (979) 774-7569
Education: BBA in Accounting, Texas A&M University
Extensive experience in writing and editing business correspondence with a Big 4 CPA firm, homeowner’s association, and a non-profit corporation. Worked closely for 6 years with college students, undergraduate and MBA, with line by line editing, proofreading, thought clarification, and the review of case studies. Will review your work not only for grammar, spelling, and capitalization errors, etc., but also for overall reasonableness, appearance, and the flow of ideas.
Rod Hotz, Technical Writer and Editor
Email: hotrodz42@verizon.net
Phone: (979) 450-4722
Education: B.S. and M.A. in Physics
Experience: Contract technical writer and editor in Bryan with over 35 years of experience writing and editing technical documents, books, professional society and trade journal articles, presentations, product sheets, and case studies for Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, and several oil industry-related software companies.
Dana Lawrence
Email: danalawrence@tamu.edu
Education: B.S., College of Education, University of South Florida; M.A., Department of English, Western Carolina University; Graduate Certificate in WomenÕs Studies, Texas A&M University
Experience: 8 years of experience teaching college-level composition and literature courses. Worked in the Writing Center at Western Carolina University for one year. Will graduate with a PhD in English in August 2009, and will be a Post-Doctoral Lecturer in the English Department for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Lynne Lepley
Email: lmlepley@aol.com
Phone: (828) 381-7549
Education: B.A.(English) Wake Forest University, MLS (Master of Library Science) East Carolina University
Experience: Instructor of composition, business communication, and world religion courses, which included instructing students in the fundamentals of proper grammar, punctuation, and sentence construction. Has also done freelance writing for educational publishers, including CTB-McGraw-Hill, Trillium, and General Learning Communications.
Lynda Lotman, Academic Editing & Advising Coordinator
Website: www.Editing-Writing.com See site for contact information.
Expert editing & formatting (APA, MLA, Chicago, AAA, Harvard). Thousands of theses and dissertations edited/formatted since 1976.
Advising services: Our graduate committee experience–and our reading, critiquing, and evaluating of thousands of theses and dissertations–provide us with an insider’s perspective that will help you complete your thesis or dissertation.
Statistics/Data Analysis: Our statisticians are experts in research design, data handling, univariate and multivariate statistical analyses, statistics packages (e.g., SPSS, SAS), report writing, and the development of charts and graphs to support your research.
Amber Malinovsky
Email: amalinov03@yahoo.com
Education: BA and MA in English
Experience: 6 years paid editing experience with papers, theses and dissertations from a variety of fields. Extensive experience with electronic and hardcopy manuscript editing for content, organization, consistency, grammar, format, and documentation. 2 years directing Blinn College’s Reading and Writing tutoring labs; 1 year editor’s assistant; 6 book revisions; 5 years teaching/tutoring experience.
Sierra Mendez
Email: sierra.mendez@gmail.com
Phone: (210) 846-6314
Education: BA in English
Experience: Worked as Writing Center Consultant for two years, Undergraduate Writing Assistant for one year, Certified Writing Consultant Levels I, II, and III, dissertation editing, online instructional course editing, have experience with essays from all academic disciplines and students for whom English is a second-language.
Brenda Nelson-Porter, DM, CEO and Founder of BrigetteÕs Technology Consulting and Research Firm
Website: http://www.brigettes.com/Editing.htm
Email: brigettebrenda@aol.com
Work: (770) 251-6765
DM: Management-University of Phoenix (UOP)-Online
MIT: Information Technology-American InterContinental University (AIU)
BAS: Administrative Management-Clayton College and State University
Assist with the composition of the thesis, proposal, and dissertation. Proofread, edit (efficient in APA, 5th ed.), and format doctoral learnersÕ papers, proposal, and dissertation.
Debbie Pipes
Email: debbiepipes@suddenlink.net
Education: BA and MA in English
Experience: Ten years experience as a writing center consultant/administrator, adaptable to whatever discipline-specific documentation style is required, and well-versed in Thesis Manual guidelines.
Skip Press
Website: www.skippress.com
Email: skippress@yahoo.com
Phone: (818) 841-7600
Skip Press has edited a Hollywood entertainment magazine, produced and directed plays, made instructional videos, sold feature film scripts, served as the Hollywood correspondent for Boys Life, been a staff writer for a UPN kids show, published young adult novels and non–fiction series like Star Families, and taught an online screenwriting course that was available in 1,500 schools. He has had published and contributed to almost 40 books, including four editions of the Writer’s Guide to Hollywood, four editions of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Screenwriting (including one in Russian). His next project is working on a screenplay with Adam Sandler’s producing partner. He has at least three books coming out in 2009 including This Is My Song: A Memoir, by Patti Page with Skip Press. As an editor and consultant, he has worked with clients all over the world and will provide references on request.
Jesse L. Rester
Email: JesseLee@tamu.edu
Phone: (903) 241-1233
Experience: Professional editor who specializes in working with non-native speakers of English. Extensive contract experience with graduate students and professors, as well as in-house experience at a major academic journal. Dissertations, journal articles, and book-length manuscripts. Clients include academics and professionals from India, Korea, Lebanon, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Slovenia, Japan, and many other countries; more than half of my clients do not speak English as their first language. Most of my expertise is in the humanities and social sciences, although I do sometimes take on projects from other disciplines.
Cara Sands
Charlotte, NC
Phone: (416) 854-8188 OR (704) 577-2324
Has a B.A. in English/Scriptwriting (1995) and 16 years of senior-level experience in corporate/strategic communications, copywriting, research, writing, editing and media relations.
Ruth Schemmer, Ph.D.
Email: ruths@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 458-2062
Experience: Seven years experience editing journal articles, theses, and dissertations in architecture/planning, social sciences, engineering, physical sciences, and business. Edited one full-length book with multiple authors and disciplines.
Sarah Spring
Email: sspring@tamu.edu
Experience: Five years of teaching experience (rhetoric and composition), two years of publishing experience as an acquisitions intern for the Texas A&M University Press, and one year of writing center administration. Currently working on completing her Ph.D.
Patrick P. Stafford
Email: marcelproust37@yahoo.com
Freelance Writer, Editor, Journalist, Copywriter, Scriptwriter, Poet & English Tutor with over 30 years of experience proofreading, editing/copyediting and rewriting tomes of most every kind, including numerous genres of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Websites, book and long-manuscript editing and copyediting are each a forte of mine in that I have edited many novels as well as other forms of prose written by online businesses, regular authors and university students
Rebecca Stout
Email: rebstout@yahoo.com
Education: BA, MA & PhD in English, and a JD
Experience: 11+ years paid experience editing 75+ dissertations and MasterÕs articles for publication in multiple disciplines including architecture, computer science, and dairy science. Edited 2 editions of the journal Callaloo.
Allena Tapia
GardenWall Publications
Email: GWpublications@gmail.com
Phone: (517) 285-2081
Award-winning writer, managing editor and experienced proofreader. Has 7 years of practice editing at the college level for a peer-reviewed journal, departmental fellows and scholars. Experience with ESL students and professors. Familiar with most style guides, especially AP and CMS.
Kristi Thomas
Email: klt10415@gmail.com
Education: BA in English from Texas A&M with minors in Business and History
Experience: Writing Center Consultant for over two years, Undergraduate Writing Assistant for Economics and Education courses, CRLA Certified Tutor/Consultant at Levels I, II, and III. Has worked extensively with international and ESL students. Experience with editing documents from all disciplines, including theses and dissertations.
Daralyn Wallace
Email: RaunFalcon@aol.com
Phone: (979) 224-1046
Location: College Station, TX
B.S. in Journalism from TAMU with minors in English and History. Expert with Microsoft Office programs, over 20 years of experience with editing, excellent spelling abilities and an eye for detail. Offers editing, proofreading, formatting, and typing. Service includes checking for spelling, grammar, punctuation, coherence, consistency, reference checks, journal style, etc. All types of documents accepted, including term papers, theses, dissertations, journal articles, books, etc., nonfiction or fiction. International students welcomed. Please contact me directly for more information.
Karen Wilczewski
Email: Karen@topdogcom.com
Phone: (317) 849-9022
Education: BA Journalism; Certification in Editing (15 hrs. beyond the BA)
Experience: Ten years experience editing professional journals, including an international dental journal, two full-length published books, and a social work journal. Edit multiple disciplines, including nursing, psychology, and sociology for clarity, consistency, and grammar. Specialize in working with individuals where English is their second language (ESL). Proofread dissertations, theses, and proposals. Style manuals include Chicago and APA.
Deborah Yates
Email: yates@neo.tamu.edu
Location: 904 Pershing Drive, College Station, TX 77840
Experience: Writing Center Consultant, Research Assistant, Grader, and English Teacher
Education: MA in English, MS in Education
Fiona Young-Brown
Website: http://www.fionayoungbrown.com
Email: fiona@fionayoungbrown.com
Phone: (859) 227-2422
Kentucky-based writer and editor. Has edited a number of academic book projects, as well as several first-time novels and doctoral dissertations. Focuses on correcting spelling and grammar errors, ensuring that formatting follows prescribed guidelines, and working to make sure that the text flows naturally.
