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..

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.