Writing
Articles
Cool Canada: Winter adventures that won’t cost the earth, alive magazine, December 2007
Spice Up Your World: Conscious home colours, alive magazine, July 2007
Also, I am currently writing profiles of Vancouver area businesses for VancouverPlus.ca.
Reviews
Ja No Man by Richard Poplak, book review in Issue 48 of subTerrain
Port Moody’s indie film event a night to remember (opens PDF file) Review of community event, Coquitlam Now, August 2004
Essay
Communication for the Real World (opens PDF file) Winning essay for the 2007 Julia Broderick Scholarship, Society for Technical Communication, Westcoast Chapter
Webwriting and Business Writing
Jack’s New and Used Building Materials. Provided re-writing services for the site’s home, salvage, rentals and delivery pages, and re-designed the information on the Contact Us pages.
Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks. Wrote several reviews of books for the store’s website to promote upcoming or little-known titles, such as At the Japanese Table.
I also have experience writing instructions, proposals, media releases, bios, information sheets, reports, and many other business and technical documents - samples are available on request.
Editing
Samples of editing work are not posted here to protect client privacy, but may be available on request.
Clients and Employers
- Teldon Publishing Group
- Self-Counsel Press
- Granville Island Publishing
- Mt Seymour Resorts Ltd.
- New Forms Festival
Editing Skills (as defined by the EAC’s Professional Editorial Standards)
- Structural
- Stylistic
- Copy editing
- Proofreading
- Fact checking
Publishing/Document Design
AntiSocialite (opens PDF file) Magazine created as a project for the Document Design class in Print Futures using PhotoShop and InDesign.
JETAABC Newsletter (opens PDF file) Coordinated the planning, writing, design and publication of this newsletter, which was distributed quarterly to the membership of JETAABC. Created using PageMaker.
