BEAR Essentials Editing
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About me
Amanda has been editing since 2013 but started Bear Essentials Editing in early 2017 after coming up with the perfect bear-based pun. Despite still working to build a professional portfolio, Amanda has been editing and critiquing writing since she was a teenager. She even got an English degree to better develop those skills as a writer and editor.
As an editor, writer, and freelance copywriter, Amanda has worked on newsletters, audio transcripts, websites for small businesses, traditional transcribing, newsletters, and novels for independent authors.
Education
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Graduated from Temple University in 2013
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Bachelor's Degree in English with a focus in literary analysis through a critical feminist/LGBT lens
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Certifications from LinkedIn Learning
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Advanced Grammar (2018)
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Editing Mastery: How to Edit Writing to Perfection (2018)
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Writing: The Craft of Story (2018)
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Other Experience
COPYEDITING
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Glenside Fire House's newsletter The Siren
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Hibu Digital Marketing (Jan 2015 - Aug 2016)
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Writing web copy & as-needed QA specialist
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"Actualization and Action" by Scout Munroe (NeonSaline), published in Game Devs & Others: Tales from the Margins (2018)
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Freelance web copy (writing and editing)
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UpWork (copyediting & developmental)
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Documentation used across Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (written and edited)
What I'm looking for
My real focus is and always has been working with independent authors. I love fun, quirky characters, plots that draw me in, subversion of tropes, romance that's founded on friendship, and especially LGBT and other marginalized identities throughout the story.
Genres
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Fantasy
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Dark fantasy
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Low/middle fantasy
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Urban fantasy/paranormal
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Thrillers/Mysteries
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Horror
Special Interests
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LGBT characters in genre fiction
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Especially bi characters
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Especially NB/agender characters
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(we love wlw in this house. we are wlw in this house)
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Ghosts
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Witches/clever magic systems
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Flipping villains to show that they were Right, Actually
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(think Nancy from The Craft; she was right)
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Dragons
Not for Me
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Rape recovery
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Think Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis or Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
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Bigotry or sexual assault to give a marginalized person their phoenix moment
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Incest or pedophilia/large age gaps (even if the younger is a teenager)