Welcome
I provide editing and writing services to individuals and publishers alike. Together, we produce projects with purpose, power, and personality.
My nose for news, ear for language, and eye for detail were honed by 40 years of eclectic media experience, mostly in New York City. After decades of urban living, I'm now based in rural New Hampshire, about two hours from Boston.
Find samples of my latest projects below. Then, click on "Find Out More" to learn more about my background and the services I offer.
*My journalism portfolio page is currently under re-construction. In the meantime, please contact me for additional samples.
Book Editing
I'm a manuscript midwife who helps people turn ideas and text into marketable books.
Recent Work
Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment
Edited by J. Timmons Roberts, Carlos R. S. Milani, Jennifer Jacquet, and Christian Downie; a project of the Climate Social Science Network at Brown University.
Climate obstruction involves intentional actions and efforts to slow or block policies on climate change that are commensurate with the current scientific consensus of what is necessary to avoid dangerous human interference with the climate system. This assessment shows that as climate action becomes globalized, efforts to obstruct it have become more deceptive, widespread, well-funded, and dangerous.
The work of 100+ authors, this first-of-its-kind volume reviews obstruction efforts undertaken by the fossil fuel industry, utilities, the transportation sector, agribusinesses, public relations firms, and organizations on the political far right. The chapters also examine the role and effects of the media in disseminating climate disinformation and misinformation. They assess climate obstruction efforts at the subnational level, in United Nations negotiations, across the Global South, and those aimed at adaptation. Finally, the reviews explore efforts to curb climate obstruction, including regulation and litigation as well as civil-society movements. -Excerpted from the publisher's website
My role: Administering the project from conception through page proofs (scheduling, trafficking, liaison with the publisher); performing developmental, line, and copy editing on all chapters; coaching authors (many of whom had English as a second language) through multiple drafts of their work. I also served as managing editor on a previous CSSN volume, Climate Obstruction in Europe, and am currently working with the team developing Climate Obstruction in Australia.
REPORTING & WRITING
I’m a freelance journalist who covers under-the-radar trends and amplifies unheard voices.
Recent Work
The Resistance Will Not Be Televised
@2500-word article for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
April 4, 2025
Excerpt:
“'Resistance is alive and well in the United States.'
So declared the headline of a March 19 article on the nonprofit news site Waging Nonviolence. Authors Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam, political scientists at Harvard’s Crowd Counting Consortium, outlined how—despite a common belief that grassroots public resistance against the depredations of the Trump Administration is lacking or lukewarm—protests are actually rising dramatically….
But if you relied on articles and broadcasts from the legacy national news media during early 2025, you wouldn’t know the extent of grassroots action prompted by this discontent. A FAIR examination of five major outlets found that coverage of anti-Trump/pro-democracy protests roughly overlapping CCC’s study timeframe (January 22 to February 26) was minimal, and downplayed the significance of this opposition, especially around the inauguration."