You might have seen my work.

 

What follows is a selection of some of my past work.

See my full resumé here.

 

Copy Editing

 

Books

• How to Stay Ahead of Your Business Blog Forever by Randy Clark

• Make Your Own Music: A Creative Curriculum Using Music
  Technology by Richard McCready

• Music 4.1: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age
  by Bobby Owsinski

• Building Flash Web Sites For Dummies

• Cutting Edge PowerPoint For Dummies

• Home Theater For Dummies

• RFID For Dummies

• Trading Card Games For Dummies

• and others

 

Periodicals

• The Saturday Evening Post — copy editor since the March/April 2016 edition

• Demography, the quarterly journal of the Population Association of America — various articles between 2004 and 2012

 

Writing

 

Short Fiction

• The Saturday Evening Post, "The Perfect Gift"

• Seasonal Work, a self-published collect of short stories, via Smashwords

 

Copyediting.com

My weekly column appears every Wednesday morning. Here is a short selection:

• The Editorial Nuances of Logging On

• On Begging the Question

• Majority, Plurality, and History

• Book Review: From Skedaddle to Selfie

• Writing About Gender Identity

 

Dummies.com

• Labor Day and the Pullman Strike of 1894

• What Cinco de Mayo Really Celebrates

• What Is a Tsunami?

 

Relevance.com

• The Unconventional Wisdom of Ultra-Long-Form Content

• How to Emulate Upworthy, and Why You Probably Shouldn’t

• Is Web Content Turning Art into a Commodity?

 

Business2Community

• 5 Reasons Hummingbird Could Bring Back Copy Editors

• Should You Write Online Content Like a Reporter or a Storyteller?

• Are You Really Editing Your Blog? Should You Be?

 

The Indiana Wind Symphony Blog

• On Performing the Star-Spangled Banner

• Music as Competition: How Music Is Like Football, and Why It Shouldn’t Be

 

Supply Chains Rock

• Plausible Claus: Santa’s Possible Distribution Network

 

Some of my favorites from the Logophilius blog

• Great Works of Copy Editing Literature

• My Response to Infinite Jest

• The Butcher's Son (A Short Story)

 

Speaking

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• Copyediting the Web -- audioconference for Copyediting.com, 3/15/12

• Editing Online Content for the New SEO -- presentation at the 2014 Conference of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES2014), 3/21/14

• Zombies and Hummingbirds: What Google Updates Mean for Content -- presentation at the 2014 Mixwest Conference, 7/1/2014

• Optimizing for Search or Social: Is It Really a Tradeoff? -- presentation at ACES2015, 3/27/2015

• SEO for Editors -- audioconference for Copyediting.com, 5/15/15