Baraka_Guru

I'm an editor for a trade book publisher, editing anything from poetry and fiction to business and new age.
I'm also a freelance editor of various types of textual materials.
I'm also a web designer/webmaster, blogging coach, market researcher, marketing director, and database administrator, amongst other things.

The editing process is largely misunderstood by the general public. It's more than just fixing spelling, grammar, and punctuation. It's also about word usage, stylistic considerations, and the logical flow of the overall work.

When I'm not editing books, etc., much of my day-to-day activities include emailing, writing business communications such as press releases and catalog copy, maintaining a media contact database, designing and implementing author websites and blogs, and so on.

I leaf through my Canadian Oxford Dictionary and Chicago Manual of Style with delight, but, unfortunately, not nearly enough.

I must needs wear many hats.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot