Marion Soublière Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

M.E.S. Editing and Writing Services (www.meseditingandwriting.com) researches, writes, edits and oversees production of web and print products to client specifications, on budget and on time. Plain language writing and editing provided as needed. Can also arrange for translation, website development and maintenance, and desktop publishing. M.E.S. Editing and Writing Services delivers high-quality products with quick turn-around, courtesy of the flexibility as a micro-business to work to irregular client schedules.Clients past and present include: • Global Affairs Canada• Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat• Justice Canada• Natural Resources Canada• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation• Library of Parliament• Health Canada• Genome Canada• CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health)• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada• Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board• Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada• WebDrive Canada Inc.• Ayaya Marketing and Communications• The Ottawa Citizen.

Wrote, edited and managed production of print, electronic and other products to client specifications, on budget and on time, for Nortext (www.nortext.com) and its strategic partner, Ayaya Marketing and Communications (www.ayaya.ca). Also helped develop and write communications plans and internal documents such as proposals, and occasionally assisted in organizing conferences, meetings, workshops and consultative processes for clients. Was also responsible for projects published by Nortext, including a highly acclaimed travel guidebook (http://amzn.to/1AqFLM2), an award-winning commemorative magazine called "Nunavut '99" (http://bit.ly/1aHO0u3) and special newspaper supplements for "Nunatsiaq News" (www.nunatsiaq.com). Key accomplishments included production of the 1998 and 1999 editions of the 400-page "Nunavut Handbook" and its companion website. This travel guidebook employed more than 50 freelance writers, most of them based in Canada's Arctic.

Contributed story ideas, edited magazine articles by contributors, wrote feature stories, did copywriting, proofed galleys. These efforts helped the "Ottawa Magazine" team to produce incisive, compelling editorial for a local Ottawa audience.Among the feature stories I wrote for “Ottawa Magazine” and its sister publication, “Ottawa Business Magazine,” were these:• “The Dark Side,” an investigation into Ottawa’s illicit drugs industry (March/April 1992, Ottawa Magazine)• “Does Bilingualism Pay?,” a look at the dollar value of knowing both official languages in Canada’s capital (April 1990, Ottawa Business Magazine)• “Against the Current,” an in-depth profile of Museum of Civilization architect Douglas Cardinal (June/July 1989, Ottawa Magazine)