Warrior Women - Empowering Women, Writers, and Dreamers

I am obsessed with reading and being able to immerse myself in different worlds. My current favorite contemporary authors are John Green and Brandon Sanderson, with Louisa May Alcott and Jane Austen forever holding a spot in my heart for authors from a different century. If given the choice between reading, or going out to do an activity, I will hands down always choose to sit curled up on the couch reading a good book, with some eggnog or apple juice, and a comfy blanket. The few things that can pull me away from my current book are ballroom dancing, and my wonderful husband, whom I have been married to for over a year. Along with reading, I absolutely love writing. Ever since I was little, I would imagine myself in the worlds that I was reading about and I would find such happiness, adventure, and fulfillment from that; a chance to escape and be whatever I wanted to be. I wanted to give that joy and thrill to others; to give them the chance to immerse themselves in other worlds and h...

I wrote and completed content editing, copyediting, and proofreading for my own Senior research project in college, on creativity in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Attached is the final product.  Click here to view .

I wrote and completed content editing, copyediting, and proofreading for my own college research paper on, Charlotte Gilman’s, “The Yellow  Wall-Paper.” Attached is the final product. Click here to view .

In an editing class that I took, the teacher gave the class the opportunity to collaboratively copyedit the manuscript of her friend, the author River Ames, on her upcoming novel, “Gideon’s Justice.” Here is my twenty-two page section out of a two hundred and thirteen page novel that the class as a team copyedited. Click here to view . 

The client wanted me to do copyediting and proofreading for her essay on Margaret Atwood’s poem, “Siren Song,” before it was submitted to her Advanced Research and Literary Analysis class’s journal. In the class, they had an academic journal, entitled, “The Journal of Myth and Legends,” that they had to maintain throughout the semester. In the Formalist Approach section, her paper was the only one out of three to four applicants that got accepted and published in the journal. Click here to view .

This is the first chapter of a long-term project of editing this client’s entire novel. She wanted light content editing, to ensure that the dialogue was believable, and the story was realistic. Click here to view .

This project was for a client who wanted the first section of her novel to have comprehensive, or content editing, completed, to ensure that the dialogue was compelling and the story flowed. In addition to comprehensive editing, I also did some copy editing, for the major grammatical and diction errors. Click here to view .

This is my section of a collaborative editing project for a client’s self-reliance teaching manual for her church group in Boise. I completed proofreading, as well as copyediting. I also ensured that all links were current and that copyright laws were followed, since this manual was a local, specialized version of the client’s church overall self-reliance manual. Click here to view .