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David C Smith
I am a retired medical editor, having served most recently for 16 years as the managing editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, so I have a great deal of experience copy editing medical review articles and original studies.
Also, I write fiction and have 27 paperback originals to my credit going back to 1977 (the six Red Sonja novels I coauthored for Ace Books in the early 1980s remain popular today). Most of these are heroic fantasy and horror, although recently I have moved into other areas: Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography (2018) won the award for Outstanding Achievement, Book, from the Robert E. Howard Foundation, and Bright Star (2019), a historical mystery set in the period of silent movies, earned a very good review from Kirkus Reviews, which called it “an engrossing tale of a fictional star’s memoir and her puzzling fate.”
In addition, I am the author of Understanding English: How Sentences Work, a grammar text/workbook (1989), based on my teaching business students the fundamentals of English grammar and syntax. I am comfortable describing myself as a genial prescriptivist.
Email: daves1952@att.net
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Years in the field: 45
Years freelancing: 2
David Smith
I am a retired medical editor, having served most recently for 16 years as the managing editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, so I have a great deal of experience copy editing medical review articles and original studies.
Also, I write fiction and have 27 paperback originals to my credit going back to 1977 (the six Red Sonja novels I coauthored for Ace Books in the early 1980s remain popular today). Most of these are heroic fantasy and horror, although recently I have moved into other areas: Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography (2018) won the award for Outstanding Achievement, Book, from the Robert E. Howard Foundation, and Bright Star (2019), a historical mystery set in the period of silent movies, earned a very good review from Kirkus Reviews, which called it “an engrossing tale of a fictional star’s memoir and her puzzling fate.”
In addition, I am the author of Understanding English: How Sentences Work, a grammar text/workbook (1989), based on my teaching business students the fundamentals of English grammar and syntax. I am comfortable describing myself as a genial prescriptivist.
