Editorial Freelancers Association
Member Profile
Maggie Lyons
Editor: comprehensive services including business (books, marketing/PR materials, manuals, websites, reports, working papers, etc.), academic (books, theses, journal articles, essays, etc.), children’s/juvenile literature; English as a Second Language (ESL) documents, personal documents; self-help books.
International experience (30+ years): educational, business, and corporate communications in USA, Europe, and UK (trade, federal sales, public affairs, legal, manufacturing, and nonprofit organizations, symphony orchestras, Oxford University, and business and academic publishers.
Recent projects: business books for Advantage/Forbes Books; academic reference books for Harvard University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Columbia University Press; case studies for Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; project research working papers (public policy papers) for The World Bank; business materials for MidAmerican Energy Company (subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway); academic documents in English by writers for whom English is a second language (ESL); academic papers for graduate students; and books and other types of literature for individual, self-publishing, business, academic, and self-help writers.
Academic editing: reviewed, developed, copyedited manuscripts in a broad variety of disciplines including history, literature, religion, philosophy, politics, fine arts, geology, sociology, climate change, marketing theory, and much more.
Corporate Communications: copyeditor, and writer of newsletters, press releases, magazine articles, op-eds, speeches on trade, legal, educational, and small business issues, technical training manuals in eight languages for a medical instrument manufacturer, operating manual for an energy company, business plans, print/radio/TV advertising copy, brochures, proposals, and so on.
Writing/teaching: PR and marketing materials; published children’s author; teacher of English, piano, and music theory.
Specialties include American, Australian, British, and Canadian English styles, following guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style, Oxford Style Manual, AP, MLA, Turabian, Harvard, Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage, and other editorial style guides.
Education: MA in public communication
Email: welshcake42@protonmail.com
http://www.lyonseditorialservices.yolasite.com/
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Years in the field: 40
Years freelancing: 16
Maggie Lyons
Editor: comprehensive services including business (books, marketing/PR materials, manuals, websites, reports, working papers, etc.), academic (books, theses, journal articles, essays, etc.), children’s/juvenile literature; English as a Second Language (ESL) documents, personal documents; self-help books.
International experience (30+ years): educational, business, and corporate communications in USA, Europe, and UK (trade, federal sales, public affairs, legal, manufacturing, and nonprofit organizations, symphony orchestras, Oxford University, and business and academic publishers.
Recent projects: business books for Advantage/Forbes Books; academic reference books for Harvard University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Columbia University Press; case studies for Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; project research working papers (public policy papers) for The World Bank; business materials for MidAmerican Energy Company (subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway); academic documents in English by writers for whom English is a second language (ESL); academic papers for graduate students; and books and other types of literature for individual, self-publishing, business, academic, and self-help writers.
Academic editing: reviewed, developed, copyedited manuscripts in a broad variety of disciplines including history, literature, religion, philosophy, politics, fine arts, geology, sociology, climate change, marketing theory, and much more.
Corporate Communications: copyeditor, and writer of newsletters, press releases, magazine articles, op-eds, speeches on trade, legal, educational, and small business issues, technical training manuals in eight languages for a medical instrument manufacturer, operating manual for an energy company, business plans, print/radio/TV advertising copy, brochures, proposals, and so on.
Writing/teaching: PR and marketing materials; published children’s author; teacher of English, piano, and music theory.
Specialties include American, Australian, British, and Canadian English styles, following guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style, Oxford Style Manual, AP, MLA, Turabian, Harvard, Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage, and other editorial style guides.
Education: MA in public communication
