Business Services
- General and technical editing
- Word Processing (MS Word 2007)
- via email, fax, Denver metro
Experience
- 25 industries, on-the-job and contract
- 500 business materials edited or written, on-the-job and contract
- 41 nonfiction and business books freelance-edited since 1994
Contract Editing
- 83 entrepreneur booklet, sales manuals and workbooks, business plans, procedure guides, proposals, project histories, corporate newsletters, journals, articles, web copy, resumes
- 100 edit research reports
- 155 develop research reports
Contract Writing
- 97 research reports, letters
- 1 arbitration-meditation booklet
- 33 fillers for a company magazine
- 24 humor columns for a company magazine
Testimonials
“Most people don’t even know they need you ... I am completely confident in Charol’s abilities as an editor. I don’t even hesitate to turn my unfinished work over to her, because I know she’ll take care of it. This is especially important when I am swamped and pressed for time. I know I don’t have to take four hours to get the work right before I turn it over to Charol. It always comes back fixed and all I have to do is follow her revisions—much easier, and faster, than doing it all myself.” LAFARGE Corporation 6.5 years, Kelley Baily, Executive Editor, 1999-summer 2005 (retired)
“Charol’s proficiency, expertise, and attention to detail played a critical and essential role in creating my firm’s corporate sponsorship sales training manual. This 200-page manual—the most comprehensive one of its kind—has become the foundation for my firm’s growth.” David Dorin, Sponsorship Advisement, Acquisition & Management, Denver
“I have known Charol since 1998 and know her work well. She is a true professional and has loads of experience in editing. She outshines other editors in her ability to handle all sorts of editing problems (both fiction and nonfiction books) and also has that creative spark needed to find the perfect phrase or add just the right polish. I often refer authors to her when I am busy or when I feel she is better equipped to handle the job.” Barbara Munson, book authors project manager
2009 Silver Medal Winner, sales manual, Axiom Business Books Awards: “Editors are like dentists; writers need them more than want them. Mine’s a monster talent in a pint-sized package. Best of all, she’s a great teacher and I’m lucky and grateful to have her….Charol, you teach me a lot and challenge me to get better. I’m proud to have you on my team.” Ocean Palmer, Maximum Horsepower: How to strengthen your sales force quickly is one of seven book projects together (extensive revision and reconstruction, in-depth content-line editing; first edit avg 1250 wds/hr).
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Contract editor writer in 25 industries:
Advertising
Consulting firms
Education
Engineering
Entrepreneurs
Environmental
Financial
Geological
Governmental agencies (federal, state)
Health
Legal (artibration, meditation, position statements)
Manufacturing
Oil and gas
Publishing (magazines, journals, newsletters...)
Real estate
Transportation
Companies include:
AORN
Array Technologies
CDOT (four long-term contracts)
Fluor Daniel
Lafarge (freelance 6.5 years)
International Typographical Union
La Marick Beauty System
Quantel Systems
Raytheon
Rocky Flats
Rolm
URS
WMC
Especially adept:
- Collect and organize numerous materials
- Active verbs and sentence structures, punctuation, grammar
- Continuity in logic and voice
- Tighten/trim, reduce redundancy
(not specialized tech language such as for: medical, computer, scientific, math equations)
Professional tips on the process of writing and editing: nonfiction, business, novels, screenplays, spiritual. Business and personal experiences as an editor, ghostwriter, and author.
Learned life tools. Personal musings on events of the day, and how coping, or not.
