About Me
Experience
I am a freelance copy editor and proofreader with more than thirty years of experience in a broad variety of professional fields, including academic, fiction, and nonfiction publishing; corporate and government sales and marketing; energy/power and medical manufacturing; litigation, trade, and arts marketing, public relations, and administration. I have also served as an English teacher at a French high school.
What I edit/proofread (US and UK English)
Business copy editing and proofreading
Marketing and sales (capability statements, product information, training and technical
manuals, brochures, reports, marketing plans, presentations, etc.)
Public relations (plans, press releases, press kits, media articles, etc.)
Audiovisual products and presentations
Academic copy editing and proofreading
Dissertations, essays, journal articles, textbooks, theses, reference books
Subjects include history, philosophy, religion, literature, art, music, law, geology, economics
Fiction and nonfiction manuscript copy editing and proofreading
Novels, short stories, poetry, and all types of nonfiction
Query letters and synopses
Children’s chapter books, picture books, magazine articles
Business and academic documents by nonnative English writers
- Capability statements, product information sheets, and Web content
for clients in the energy industry Corporate communications for a sales and marketing company
Academic reference books for Palgrave Macmillan, Continuum
Thesis and law article for ESL clients
Fiction and nonfiction manuscripts
Education
MA in Public Communications (American University, Washington, DC)
BA in French (German and music minors; University of Wales)
ATCL (piano and music theory; Trinity College of Music, London, UK)
maggielyons66@gmail.com
Member of the Editorial Freelancers Association