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Batchelder, Edward
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Buffalo - NY
United States
Email: work@edwardbatchelder.com
Website: www.edwardbatchelder.com
Years in field: 20
Years as freelancer: 10
Member info:
I've worked as an editor, copyeditor, proofreader, and fact checker since the late 1980s, when I began as an editorial assistant for MIT's Journal of Fusion Energy and then moved to Houghton Mifflin to read submissions and write manuscript reports. At around the same time, I began working as a journalist, writing everything from film and theater reviews to articles on Boston's nursing shortage.
Since then I've continued to work as an editor and writer in a variety of capacities -- I've copyedited product descriptions for Test & Measurement World; written and edited sales presentations for Polaroid; logged in several years as a legal and business proofreader in New York City; been managing editor of a neighborhood newspaper in Manhattan; and produced the second edition of The Real Guide to Grad School for the academic journal, Lingua Franca. My own writing focuses on the arts -- primarily music and literature -- but I've also written political and travel pieces and done a fair amount of writing for hire.
Currently, I copyedit for Ballantine Books, Viking Penguin, Fordham University, and Camden House, as well as for SRSsoft, a medical software firm, and the nationally syndicated motorcycle-and-cooking column, "Biker Billy Cooks With Fire."
Skills include fluent German, limited French, Spanish, and Greek, and a working knowledge of a variety of word processing and graphics programs. Please see my Web site for more information, including a list of titles I've worked on and articles I've published.