Monica O'Rourke

Current

Editor at Dark Hart Press
Freelance Editor/Writer/Proofreader at Self

Past

Executive Assistant at Marsh
Co-chair at Killercon
Writer/Editor/Marketing at Path Medical

Executive Assistant at Continuum Health Partners
Assistant Housekeeper at Omni Hotels

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Education

Borderlands Press Bootcamp
New York University
State University of New York College at Plattsburgh

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Recommended

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Industry

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Monica O'Rourke’s Summary

Monica O'Rourke’s Specialties:

Extensive experience writing, editing, proofreading, copyediting, and marketing.

Monica O'Rourke’s Experience

Editor

Dark Hart Press

(Writing and Editing industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

 Provide consistently high standard of copyediting and proofreading.
 Correct all errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
 Ensure consistency of style.
 Correct occasional wordiness, redundancy, and errors in diction.
 Amend commonly known and minor factual errors.
 Highlight any author-specific queries (questions only the author can answer).
 Correct any hyphenation, italic, boldface, small capitals, typeface, and font, issues.
Freelance Editor/Writer/Proofreader

Self

(Writing and Editing industry)

1995 — Present (14 years )

Freelance editor/writer/proofreader for various publishing companies and Web sites. Provide consistently high standard of copyediting and proofreading; correct errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax; ensure consistency of style; other responsibilities as needed.

Several hundred short stories, articles, reviews, interviews, and newsletters have been published. Author of two novels (Suffer the Flesh, and Poisoning Eros, with Wrath James White), and a fiction collection, Experiments in Human Nature.
Executive Assistant

Marsh

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MMC; Insurance industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year )
Co-chair

Killercon

(Writing and Editing industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year )
Writer/Editor/Marketing

Path Medical

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

April 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Ghostwrote books, newsletters, articles, ads, interviews, etc. for physician/author. Handled marketing; dealt with production companies and publishers. Fascinating work while it lasted!
Executive Assistant

Continuum Health Partners

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

1997 — 2007 (10 years )
Assistant Housekeeper

Omni Hotels

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Hospitality industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )