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About Me

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Education

Bachelor's degree in English from Temple University (2013); multiple time recipient of Dean's List honors (College of Liberal Arts)

LinkedIn Learning

  • Writing with Flair: How to Become an Exceptional Writer, Shani Raja (2018)

  • Writing: The Craft of Story, Lisa Cron (2018)

  • Editing Mastery: How to Edit Writing to Perfection, Shani Raja (2018)

  • Advanced Grammar (2017), Judy Steiner-Williams (2018)

Experience

  • Hibu Digital Marketing (Jan 2015 - Aug 2016)

    • Web copy writer, consistently scored 100% on random QA checks​

      • Specially chosen to join a team doing QA during period of in-house QA team being weeks behind schedule

  • "Actualization and Action" by NeonSaline, published in Game Devs & Others: Tales from the Margins (2018)

    • Copyediting​

  • Freelance web copy (writing and editing)

    • See projects page for details​

  • ​UpWork (copyediting & developmental)​

  • Documentation used across Beth Israel Lahey Health (2022-ongoing)

    • Tool compiling info about health insurance and what plans to choose in Epic, used and shared across the BILH network of 13 hospitals (written, edited, maintained)​

    • Training documents detailing team operations for Central Registration and Insurance Verification Specialist teams in the patient access department of BIDMC (written, edited, maintained)

My real focus is and always has been working with independent authors. I love fun, quirky characters, plots that draw me in, strong character development, subversion of tropes, romance that's founded on friendship, and especially LGBT and other marginalized identities throughout the story. Open to YA but prefer Adult.

Genres

  • Fantasy

    • especially dark fantasy/the blend of fantasy and horror​

  • Sci/Fi

    • Mostly low sci-fi​ or science-fantasy

  • Horror

  • Supernatural/Paranormal

Special Interests

  • LGBT characters in genre fiction

    • Especially bi characters​

    • Especially Non-Binary/agender characters​

  • Witches/clever magic systems

  • Goth & Metal Vibes

  • Flipping traditionally villainized characters to show that they were Right, Actually​

  • Dragons and Creachers

Comps

  • The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix

  • Anything by Grady Hendrix

  • The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samatha Shannon

  • The Dragon Prince series by Melanie Rawn

  • Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

  • The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

  • The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey

  • Darker Shades of Magic series by V.E. Schwab

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Experience

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