Cassie Armstrong
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Skills
- Proofreading, copyediting, line editing, substantive editing, rewriting, and writing
- Organizational and communication skills
- Critical reading, analysis, and evaluation
- Research
Selected Clients
- Ambitious Enterprises
- Citizens Project
- Esri Press
- Harlequin Books
- Harry N Abrams
- Highspot, Inc
- Isom Global
- Junior Achievement
- Loan Packager Group, LLC
- Lydia Inglett LTD Publishing
- Meriwether Publishing
- Mother's House Publishing
- New American Library, Penguin Group (USA)
- Project WET Foundation
- Quarto Publishing
- Ronald McDonald House Charities
- Running Press
- St. Martin's Press
- Storey Publishing
- Sourcebooks
- The Experiment
- Thomas Wadsworth Publishing
- Westone
Experience
- Editorial consultant
- University classroom and online English instructor
- Reviewer and evaluator of textbooks under university consideration
- Teacher of English composition and rhetoric at the university level
- Substitute teacher and special education substitute teacher, grades K–10
- Bookseller
- Business writer and investigative reporter
- Freelance writer and research assistant
Education and Certification
- MA English, California State University, Sacramento
- Coursework in education and English, California State University, Sacramento
- BA literature, University of Arizona
- Lifetime California Community College teaching credential, language arts and literature
Professional Training
- Editorial Freelancers Association Proofreading Basics with Kris Fulsaas
- Fundamentals of Copyediting with Laura Poole and Carolyn Hassett
- Advanced Copyediting Topics with Laura Poole
- Fiction Editing Boot Camp with Alice Osborn
- Advanced Fiction Editing Boot Camp with Alice Osborn
Professional Memberships
- Editorial Freelancers Association
- Bay Area Editors Forum
- Copyediting-L
- Rocky Mountain Publishing Professionals Guild
- ACES
- Chicago Women in Publishing
- PEN