Line & copy editing | work samples
Working with authors to make their language tight, clear, and grammatically sound
October Girl
Urban fantasy with an eleven year-old protagonist, set in Seattle and various mythology-steeped side-worlds.
Conducted a thorough line- and copy edit of the first three chapters of the completed novel in preparation for sending out to agents. Also created a detailed style guide for those chapters, including characters, place names (real and imagined), invented words, and the author's preferred spellings.
How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title
A text-based parser game in the grand tradition of Zork and epic in scope—200,000+ words.
Line and copy edit, with in-depth editorial style sheet, of the tutorial section prior to the game's submission to an international competition.
The Maze Gallery
A collectively made, choice-based interactive fiction game
Collaborated with a team of editors to copyedit, proofread, and QA this game made collectively by 25 writers, with a goal of maintaining individual authorial voices while unifying the overall style and tone.
Last pie baked:
Pear pie with an almond cake topping.
Of course it's gone now. Long gone.
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