User:Editrx

A professional editor,† writer, and book production specialist of some twenty-five years in the mainstream book publishing field, Editrx also runs her own book production company and in her copious spare time knits too much.

She was diagnosed with lupus-related syndromes back in the 1990s and wrote a book for new and continuing lupus patients, The First Year: Lupus (Marlowe, 2003), which will go into a new, updated edition sometimes in 2007. She's been known to write as a columnist for BYTE.com, as a ghost- co-writer on technology & other nonfiction books, as a stringer reporter for WIRED News, and for just about anybody else who will pay her to put words on a screen and call it work.

She was the community manager for Excite Corp. during the heyday of the dot coms, moving them from static bulletin boards to incorporate live chat and interactive websites. She became wiser, less well slept, more caffeinated, slightly more cynical about online communities, and went back to editing and the book field before the dot com bust. Talk about good timing.

She ran Baen Publishing Enterprise's (Baen Books) production department from 1997-2005 and worked for Baen in general (copyediting, proofreading, typesetting, design, kvetching) for a little over sixteen years.

She likes writing about herself in the third person.

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† Anyone who tells you a writer can edit his or her own words perfectly is a fool. Editors who say they can edit their own words perfectly are even more foolish. Typos, grammatical mistakes, and stray cat fur are all attributable to this unedited editor/writer (myself) and thoughtful, gently suggested corrections are always appreciated.