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As a preteen, I won a summer camp award for
best writing. I was a circus aerialist and newspaper columnist in high
school (Sarasota, Florida). For the formal stuff about my education and
work, see the resumé below. I'm a full member of the Society
of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and have taken creative
writing classes from published authors Edwin Granberry, Denise Gess, and
Greg Frost.
My late husband was Richard Staton, an applications
engineer retired from the automotive industry. Our grown children are
Christopher (Crick) Staton, the technical director for the historic Strand
Theater in Lakewood, NJ; and Dr. Valerie Staton, a professor of psychology
at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus. We've had fifteen ferrets, one
the inspiration for Tattletails’ Ferdo. I’ve had a
dog, cats, and horses, and I help sometimes as a trail guide at a riding
stable.
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Education
Northwestern University, Medill School of
Journalism, Evanston, IL (M.S.J., magazine emphasis)
Radcliffe-Harvard Publishing Procedures Course, Cambridge, MA
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL (B.A., English
major). Newspaper and yearbook staffs, literary magazine
editor, member of Rollins Publication Union
Employment
Assistant editor, then associate editor for Jack and Jill children’s
magazine, Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia, PA. Wrote
features, evaluated and edited manuscripts, proofread galleys, checked
layouts, was liaison with ABC-TV, scheduled some issues.
(five years)
Proofreader, book reviewer, photo clerk for Lindsay Newspapers, Inc.,
Sarasota, FL (one year)
Public relations assistant for New College, Sarasota, FL (one year)
Freelance Editorial Assignments
Copyedited six nonfiction books for Barron Educational Series,
Hauppauge, NY; a fantasy for Simon &
Schuster (Atheneum), Parsippany, NJ; over fifty romance novels for Dorchester
Publishing, Inc., New York, NY; two novels
for Penguin Group USA, New York, NY; three naval
history books for the Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD; a chemical
textbook by Dr. Russell S. Drago, Department
of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and remedial readers
for J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA
Proofread sociology book for Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
Copyedited Ultrapure Water and Industrial Water Treatment (chemical
industry journals) and three technical books for Tall
Oaks Publishing, Littleton, CO (eleven years)
Compiled and edited Instructor's Read-Aloud Anthology for Instructor
Books, New York, NY
Proofread for Radio Only and Inside Radio, Cherry Hill,
NJ
Copyedited, proofread proceedings of viral hepatitis symposium; proofread
medical journals for The Franklin Institute Press, Philadelphia,
PA
Copyedited technical manuscripts on computer industry for Auerbach Publishers,
Inc., Pennsauken, NJ (four years freelance, plus ten
weeks as acting chief copy editor)
Evaluated, edited manuscripts for Jack and Jill, Review Publishing,
Indianapolis, IN (four years)
Published Writing
Book reviews and features for Sarasota Herald Tribune; short stories,
articles, features, and play for Jack and Jill, Odyssey,
Stories, and Instructor; company reviews for Ultrapure Water;
short story in Grit
Computer Capabilities
Use Word, including on-screen revision; have used Word Perfect and WordStar
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