With a passion for words, collecting quotes, and reading books, I love all things writing related. I will admit to having a love-hate relationship with writing as I am constantly critical, but I feel a grand sense of accomplishment spending hours editing my own writing.

Lest you think I don’t have much of a life, I should add I also enjoy dancing, singing, acting, eating out, and spending quality time with my husband and daughter.

I’m pretty cool. And you may want to be my friend. But in order for that to happen, you will need to know more about me than this tiny box allows.

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Categories

Bite-Sized Punctuation (13)

Using En Dashes
Colons with Independent Clauses
Colons with Lists
Commas with Dates
Semicolons with Complex Lists
Commas with Interrupters Part Three: Regular Interrupters
Commas with Interrupters Part Two: Appositives
Commas with Interrupters Part One: Direct Address
Semicolons with Independent Clauses Part 2
Semicolons with Independent Clauses Part 1
Commas with Dependent Clauses
Commas with Independent Clauses
Commas with Adjectives

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Professional Course List

ACES COURSES

Substantive Editing: Untangling the Weeds

EFA COURSES

Developmental (Substantive) Editing of Nonfiction
Developmental (Substantive) Editing of Fiction, Three-part Series: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced
Copyediting Fiction
Copyediting Intermediate
Introduction to Children’s Literature
Book Mapping for Developmental Editors

COPYEDITING.COM WEBINARS

Copyediting Fiction
Editing for the Web

MISCELLANEOUS COURSES

Fiction Copyediting and Line Editing (Jennifer Lawler)
Using Sentence-Level Clues to Diagnose Developmental Issues in Fiction (Jennifer Lawler)

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