Stephen Evans

Current

editor / proofreader / ghostwriter / fact-checker at the-freelance-editor

Past

Editor at North Carolina Museum of History
Reference Librarian at Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library

Education

Winter Park Tech
Manchester College
Beavercreek High School

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Industry

Writing and Editing

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Stephen Evans’s Summary

the-freelance-editor provides editorial guidance to clients of all sizes, writers of all levels, projects of all intentions. If you need assistance with word choice, punctuation, grammar, and readability—the elements you want to be perfect for your readers or listeners—contact the-freelance-editor.

As a freelance editor, I'll work with you—the author—to reach your ultimate goals: (1) to say what you want to say to the audience you want to reach and (2) to have your readers concentrate on your message, not your mistakes. I also provide ghostwriting, proofreading, and fact-checking services.

Serving individuals, small business and large corporations (on contract and retainer arrangements), nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. Specializing in getting your intended message to your intended reader.

Stephen Evans’s Specialties:

logical organization of documents (verbal and written); application of Chicago Manual of Style decisions, grammatical rules, and usage decisions to prose constructions; and guiding writers to reveal their true intentions and meanings!

Stephen Evans’s Experience

editor / proofreader / ghostwriter / fact-checker

the-freelance-editor

(Writing and Editing industry)

January 1987 — Present (22 years 11 months)

provide editorial guidance, ghostwriting services, and fact-checking services to clients located around the world!
Editor

North Carolina Museum of History

(Writing and Editing industry)

March 1992 — October 2000 (8 years 8 months)

served as copy editor for general museum publications (promotional and educational), exhibit labels, study guides, and audio-visual scripts; served as project editor for The Tar Heel Junior Historian history magazine
Reference Librarian

Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Libraries industry)

1976 — 1987 (11 years )

assisted phone-in and walk-in clients in research related to science- and business-related questions; assisted in local history research; compiled and edited monthly new-book newsletter

Stephen Evans’s Education

Winter Park Tech

no , continuing adult education , 2004 — 2007

Activities and Societies:

training in HTML and XHTML coding to aid in refining Web sites for clients, training in Adobe InDesign for print projects
Manchester College

BA , Education, Journalism, School Media Svcs , 1976 — 1980

worked in Funderburg Library all four years; edited Oak Leaves, the campus newspaper
Beavercreek High School

1973 — 1976

Activities and Societies:

worked in Ferguson Jr Hi library, 1970-1976; served as a manager and student trainer on HS wrestling team, 1973-1976

Additional Information

Stephen Evans’s Websites:

Stephen Evans’s Interests:

ghostwriting, editing, simple Web site design, blogging, teaching old dogs new tricks!

Stephen Evans’s Groups:

Editorial Freelancers Association, Association of Personal Historians, SCBWI: The Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, University Club of Winter Park, Florida Writers Association (Orlando Area group leader)