Independent authors bypass the publishing industry, strike out on their own, and choose to be responsible for the entire process of publishing their own work. They take the highest responsibility for their creation, and choose to take on both the risks and the rewards of all the related decisions – including choosing the design, cover, layout, marketing, and of course their editor. As an independent editor, I identify with the courageous choice of indie authors to self-publish, and I understand the value that I can provide in that process.
My career in publishing started in college, where I earned a Bachelor's degree in English and General Literature at Binghamton University in upstate New York. As part of my studies, I held a paid internship in publishing and editing with an on-campus scholarly publisher called Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (now located in Arizona). After college, I worked as a freelance proofreader for various Arizona publishing houses and publications, including an independent (and now defunct) newspaper called Tucson Motor News and Tucson Lifestyle magazine. Recently, I've edited the self-published books Anonymous Bitcoin, by Kristov Atlas and Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Jake Desyllas.
When I left Arizona to return to New York, I started a family and later went into accounting. (I also hold an Associates Degree in Business Administration, but my original major was accounting.) Now that my two children are almost grown, and the Internet has drastically changed the nature of publishing, I'm returning to my love of working with the written word.
