Editing and writing background:

I have worked as a writer and editor since graduate school in New York, inspired by majoring in English and working at World Publishing and Macmillan, where I developed a life-long interest in manuscript editing and the publishing process. After joining the faculty at Queens College, CUNY, I continued editing independently for Macmillan and faculty colleagues, and published my own nonfiction texts with Harper & Row and Prentice-Hall

In Rhode Island, I began editing a magazine, writing for local papers, and developing book-length works such as the Bicentennial History of the First Baptist Church 1781-1981 and a 350-page feasibility study for the Massachusetts state government that eventually led to the public berthing of the USS Massachusetts. I soon took a full-time position as systems analyst and technical writer/editor at McLaughlin Research Corporation. The manuscripts varied greatly in scale and complexity, but easily the most memorable, because of its weight and breadth, was a 1500-page technical manual on electrical cables. About the same time, I returned to graduate school to finish my Ph.D. and, in 1988, joined Aquidneck Management Associates, where I was senior editor and management analyst for seventeen years.

As Senior Editor at a Fortune 500 company, I produced a wide variety of technical documentation
on engineering, environmental studies, and management planning. I have edited and/or written research reports, technical analyses, proposals, articles for national and local periodicals, slide presentations, planning documents, posters, brochures, and financial documents. These products were edited to high standards and formatted, designed, and produced with applied skill and great attention to detail.

I continue to work on novels, histories, memoirs, and other non-fiction, establishing good professional relationships with authors in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maine, Ohio, California, Montana, Virginia, and Holland.