A N DREW D OT Y St. Louis, MO | 618 580 6524 | acdoty@gmail.com SUMMARY:
Professional freelance copyeditor and proofreader with 5+ years’ experience working remotely for diverse clientele in a wide scope of editorial responsibilities. Extremely analytical and organized; maintain efficient and productive work habits without supervision. Able to prioritize numerous tasks concurrently in order to meet strict deadlines. Excellent grasp of rhetoric, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Core competencies: Copyediting | Proofreading | Developmental editing | Substantive editing Line editing | Interior layout design | Microsoft Word & Excel | InDesign WORK EXPERIENCE: EDITWRIGHT LLC Owner / Editor
{since February 2012}
Editwright is a small editorial services company that helps independent authors, small publishers, author services companies, and small businesses quality-check their publications. Responsibilities and key accomplishments: • Catch and correct hundreds of typesetting errors before publication daily. • Led editorial decision-making process in two bestselling novels. • Ghostwrote four articles accepted for publication by Inc. Magazine and Huffington Post. PUNCTUM BOOKS
Chief Associate Editor / Creative Director / Production Director
{since November 2011}
punctum is an open-access publisher with nine imprints, specializing in scholarship, academia, para-academia, philosophy, literature, sociology, language studies, and ontology. Responsibilities: • Performed layout design, formatting, copyediting, and proofreading for journals, novels, poetry, and essays of varying lengths across multiple imprints. • Establish and maintain unique style guides for each imprint. SOMETHING OR OTHER PUBLISHING (SOOP) Director of Editorial Services
{December 2013 – January 2016}
A modern, democratic publisher leveraging readers’ votes to steer publication sponsorship decisions. Responsibilities and key accomplishments: • Managed publishing house style guide, editorial policy, and production cycles. • Maintained, planned, wrote, and edited web content for SOOP and authors. • Consulted and advised for developmental strategy, publication tactics, and acquisitions. • Serve as developmental editor and copyeditor for bestselling novel The Time Manipulator’s Son; performed developmental and substantive editing, copyediting, and proofreading for other books. VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: ST. LOUIS PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION (SLPA) Publicity Chair / Communications Director ST. LOUIS SMALL PRESS EXPO (SPEX) Volunteer
{since July 2015} {since September 2014}
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English, minor in Creative Writing, focus in Poetry Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), Edwardsville, IL