Lydia Melby Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

- Work closely with business stakeholders and UX partners to create user-focused content solutions in support of two product labs.- Contribute to Vanguard voice and tone style guide and ensure style adherence.- Edit for Vanguard UX blog, providing both collaborative structural guidance and copy editing.- Write for many different channels and use cases.- Research new content needs and audit existing content.- Collaborate with legal experts to ensure compliance and accuracy.

Remote

- Guided marketing content creation with a focus on target markets, channels, campaigns, and international versatility for 15 product teams. - Provided in-depth, empathetic content editing and copyediting for multiple types of content (including articles, blog posts, case studies, social media copy, help guides, and award applications).- Reviewed and edited UI/UX text and in-app microcopy for all Zoho products.- Managed Zoho marketing style guide.- Co-led editorial team, guiding direct reports, leading editorial meetings, and assisting in hiring and training new editors.

Austin, Texas Area

- Edited and copyedited weekly or biweekly essays by Raymond Brimble for String Theory blog. - Edited essay collection manuscript "Cumulus," guiding overarching structural changes and contributing to research for new work. - Restructured String Theory website to highlight content and make interface more intuitive.- Edited all copy for SeedPod website.- Managed blog, social media outreach, bimonthly newsletter.

Austin, Texas Area

- Planned and created content for website, blog, biweekly newsletters, and all social media accounts.- Created public-facing, press, and outgoing communications for Texas Book Festival and Texas Teen Book Festival.- Edited documents and copy according to AP style and TBF house style.- Created and managed in-house style guide.- Designed web and social media graphics and visuals, as well as print collateral, event signs, and banners.- Updated, edited, and managed TBF and TTBF websites.- Hired and directed Communications/Graphic Design intern; assisted in directing Programming interns.- Previously: programmed annual Festival events and panels for Romance and Young Adult book genres.

Remote

Copyedited manuscripts, website copy, and book spreads for Hightree Publishing.

Houston, Texas Area

- Wrote and edited copy for website, blog, weekly newsletter, and all social media. - Managed public-facing and press communications.- Updated, edited, and troubleshot website.- Planned and hosted in-store events; managed store event calendar (4-5 events per week).- Assisted with customer service, bookselling, POS, stocking, shelving, and cleaning.

Remote

- Wrote and edited copy for galley letters, press releases, website content, newsletters, and social media accounts. - Researched media outlets and built contact lists for targeted media outreach.- Managed several social media accounts and campaigns for clients. - Scheduled events, reviews, and interviews.- Fielded emails, publicity requests, and queries.

Austin, Texas Area

- Edited novel manuscripts for consistency, accuracy, and stylistic language. - Copyedited manuscripts according to AP style and in-house stylebook before release. - Proofed and typeset titles for print.-Wrote copy for website and blog.- Designed and/or formatted ebook cover images, jacket copy, titles, and other information for print covers.- Managed metadata for print books on distributor's website.

Remote

- Read Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Early Adult submissions, both solicited and unsolicited. - Wrote detailed reader's reports on submissions' content and quality, with an eye for how closely they matched what Ms. Heske wanted to represent.

Ames, Ia/ Remote

Copyedited “Fundamentals of Canine Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology” by Dr. Etsuro Uemura.

Greater New York City Area

Wrote copy for galley letters and social media campaigns.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

- Wrote and edited copy for galley letters, website, monthly newsletter, social media, and blog posts.- Spearheaded publisher’s first social media advertising campaign.- Updated website and distributor’s page; contributed to social media.- Evaluated and responded to submitted manuscripts

Taught 3 credit courses on 1/2 schedule, with 26 students per class. Responsibilities included lecturing, grading, filing grades and other administrative duties.

Ames, Ia

• Managed all fiction submissions, book review content and schedule, ARC requests, fiction publishing contracts, general administrative duties. • Worked closely with authors to edit work for publication under deadline, and solicit writers and visual artists. • Contributed blog content, promotional copy and design, marketing strategies.

• Lectured 1-5 hours per day on various subjects for many different age levels; led group discussions after each.• Completed both collaborative and individual long-term projects well before deadline.• Managed overnight and long-term visiting groups, maintaining meticulous records for all lodging and activity arrangements, health and legal forms, and fees.• Managed daily paperwork, money and cost receipts, organized equipment storage and various filing systems.

• Managed and organized submissions, voting, various expenses, website, database of past subscribers and submitters.• Lead authors in editing accepted work, organized fundraisers.

Abilene, Texas Area

• Managed and wrote Arts, basic news, Op./Ed. colums, and audio-visual content• Designed two full pages and copy-edited 4-10 full pages biweekly under deadline.

Master Of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Creative Writing (Fiction)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English, 4.0

Activities and Societies: The Shinnery Review (literary journal), The Optimist (university newspaper), Sigma Tau Delta, Honors College.