Need fresh web content rich with keywords for search engine optimization (SEO)? How about a new brochure to market your business or services? Are you a self-publisher trying to make your book the best it can be? A generalist with a passion for old books, new words, and homemade raspberry jam (how’s that for a non sequitur?), I may be able to help. More about me: I have worked on words since 1990, when I began a five-year stint at the venerable/notorious Vancouver weekly the Georgia Straight. There, editing fine writers such as the late James Barber, I learned to respect a writer’s style. I went on to pursue a master’s in publishing and establish a freelance business as a writer, editor, and sometime indexer. Since 1997, Paper Trail Publishing has provided editorial services to a broad range of clients, including regional and national book publishers, self-publishing authors, academic journals, corporations, and think-tanks. Here are three award-winning books I am proud to have worked on: The Trade, breakout historical novel by the Calgary author Fred Stenson. I copy-edited this winner of the Grant MacEwan Author's Award, also nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. (Note: I now focus on non-fiction.) A Sto:lo Coast Salish Historical Atlas. I copy-edited and proofread this landmark publication, winner of the Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prizes, 2002) and the City of Vancouver Book Award. The talented designer was Jan Perrier of Perrier Design. Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley. I copy-edited and proofread this atlas (and five others!) by the prolific author Derek Hayes. It won the BC Historical Federation Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Here are three publications I edit regularly: Amphora, the journal of the Alcuin Society Canadian Journal of Communication, cjc-online.ca Children's Mental Health Research Quarterly Questions about writing or editing? Answers to word puzzles? Contact me today to move your publishing project forward. | 
