Selected work
Case studies
Three projects in depth, plus the technical and B2B editing that came before them. I've linked public samples where I can.
Web content & editorial operations
Wizards Play Network retailer content
What I'm working on
The Wizards Play Network is Wizards of the Coast's retailer program, and it's going through a major update. That means the guidance retailers use has to move with the program.
A lot of the problems show up between documents: an article disagrees with the dashboard, an older page still uses outdated wording, or something gets drafted before the underlying decision is settled. I spend a lot of my time catching those issues before they reach retailers.
My role on the team
I own assigned retailer-facing content, including drafting, revision, editorial QA, CMS preparation, and review coordination. I support the content calendar and maintain the article tracker, coordinating timing and dependencies with program managers as pieces move through release cycles. Much of the QA is on material I didn't originate. The calendar itself, program policy, final approvals, and launch strategy sit elsewhere on the team.
Scope
- 25+Retailer-facing assets created, substantially revised, or QA'd across six formats
- 90+Editorial QA and cross-document consistency passes across about 30 connected assets
- 16Pieces prepared as Contentful-ready markup with final consistency checks
- 10Asset education suite: five written explainers, five instructional video scripts
- 6Article guidance series led end to end, standardizing voice, structure, and terminology
Public samples
- Get Ready for the October 1 Quarterly Metrics Refresh wpn.wizards.com
- The Evolution of WPN Premium wpn.wizards.com
- WPN Metrics Framework Overview wpn.wizards.com
- WPN Benefits Program Overview wpn.wizards.com
These are live WPN articles I created, substantially revised, or supported through editorial QA and publishing preparation. WPN content is a team effort, and these pages reflect contributions from more than one person. Program specifics beyond what's already published stay confidential.
How a piece actually comes together
Briefs come from program managers. I gather the source material and partner input, pin down the retailer question the piece needs to answer, and clarify anything that's still unsettled before I draft.
I write and revise web articles, FAQs, segmented emails, instructional scripts, interface copy, and partner materials. I also review connected content as a set, checking terminology, program details, dashboard behavior, and older guidance that may have gone stale.
Published content keeps moving too. When program details change, I go back through the related pieces and update them together so the guidance stays consistent across the set.
Unresolved questions stay on a cross-functional decision tracker until there's an answer. That keeps uncertain program information out of retailer-facing copy and makes ownership visible while the team works through it.
The piece I'd point to first is a coordinated education suite: five written explainers paired with five instructional video scripts and detailed visual direction, with the written and video treatment of each subject developed together.
I also led editorial development and consistency review for a complete six-article guidance series, standardizing voice, structure, terminology, and calls to action across all six.
Tools and handoffs
Briefs and tracking live in Smartsheet and Confluence. I draft in Word and stage in Contentful, handling formatting, metadata, link QA, and localization preparation. I coordinate stakeholder review, manage follow-ups, and route material changes for legal review when needed.
I also use AI for synthesis: digesting meetings, comparing source documents, and surfacing inconsistencies across a group of articles. Anything it surfaces gets checked against current documentation before I act on it.
Publishing
Fiction editing for Vinspire Publishing
How the work was set up
I edited five titles for Vinspire Publishing from 2019 to 2021 as a contracted editor paid on royalties. The work followed the publisher's house process, and in one case meant coming back to the same author for a second book.
How the rounds worked
Vinspire called the first round a content edit. It covered grammar and style, sentence structure, paragraphing, dialogue, clarity, plus plot and continuity queries.
After the author revised, I reviewed the changes, reread for final corrections, and prepared the clean manuscript for the publisher. The rounds blended sentence-level, style, continuity, and correctness work, so I use Vinspire's own terminology here.
Titles
- Pockets of Promise Content edit through final manuscript preparation, with grammar and style work, clarity edits, and plot and continuity queries.
- The Mystery of the Golden Ball Content edit through final manuscript preparation, including sentence restructuring, dialogue, paragraphing, and plot and clarity queries.
- Rebekah's Dress Content edit through final manuscript preparation, with sentence-level editing, continuity and plot queries, and Chicago style work.
- The Test of Gold Content edit through final manuscript preparation, including flow, consistency, historical and fact-checking queries, foreign-language styling, and formatting review.
- Pockets of Purpose Second-round editing after another editor's first pass, covering continuity, clarity, grammar and style, character and plot, factual queries, and final preparation.
Lydia, The Mythik Wars, Book 2
A multi-round proofreading assignment covering a full first pass, author and publisher feedback, a second pass, and final manuscript delivery.
Proofreading at the end of a production cycle is where consistency problems that survived every earlier stage finally have to be caught, because there's no round after yours.
Also in this period
Completed editorial evaluation and cold reads of commercial fiction for publishing clients, reviewing manuscripts for accuracy, consistency, continuity, and publication issues. Individual title assignments aren't named here.
Publishing
Editing practicum with May McGoldrick
What it was
The capstone of my University of Washington Certificate in Editing was a practicum with working authors. I edited a 3,000-word section of Thanksgiving in Connecticut, a novella by May McGoldrick, the pen name of Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick.
What it included
The assignment included an editorial proposal and schedule, developmental and line editing, author queries, Track Changes and margin comments, a style sheet, a revision round, final cleanup, and delivery. I managed the schedule myself and hit every date.
Why it's here
Most editing work is invisible by design. This is one of the few projects where I have permission to describe the whole process, so it gives a clear picture of how I work with an author.
“Your edits were insightful and on target.”
Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick, writing as May McGoldrick. Shared with permission.
They also praised the clarity of my communication and project management and noted that I met every deadline.
Technical & B2B editing
Engineering reports, legal reports, and training manuals
Editing engineering and legal reports taught me to check facts and contradictions before polishing sentences. I carried that habit into training materials at Mallory, and it still shapes how I review content now.
Report Coordinator, Rimkus
Edited technical engineering and legal reports for clarity and consistency while preserving expert meaning. I coordinated revisions across departments and worked directly with subject matter experts to resolve unclear or conflicting information, often with several reports moving at once and none of the deadlines moving.
Client Partnership Representative, Mallory Safety & Supply
Developed and edited training manuals, instructional content, and internal documentation. I also translated technical product information for B2B audiences, kept customer-facing and internal materials consistent as details changed, and provided bilingual English and Spanish support.
Those materials are confidential, so I don't show samples from these roles.
Questions about any of this?
Ask me about the process, the tools, or how I'd approach a specific content problem.