I have been a professional freelance writer and editor since 2005. I am a ghostwriter, collaborator, and sympathetic copyeditor. If you are ready with ideas, but don't quite have the words, I can help you. If you have written something that you want "polished" or streamlined or edited for clarity and correctness, I'll do that for you.I have written books, white papers, website copy, newsletter articles, magazine essays, blogs, and more. Much of my client work has been ghostwritten but I have also published a good deal under my own name. My website, marcwordsmith.com, contains many writing samples, including excerpts from my books and other published works.I am particularly proficient at synthesizing information from diverse sources, and at paraphrasing complicated or technical data into easily understood language. I've done a great deal of medical writing for lay audiences over the years.

I authored a textbook, The Poetry Reader’s Toolkit, which demystifies poetry for readers. Still in print after 19 years. http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Readers-Toolkit-Reading-Understanding/dp/0844259888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415687950&sr=8-1&keywords=the+poetry+reader%27s+toolkit

Have composed web pages, letters, and emails for Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Hematology departments, as well for Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

I ghostwrite sections or chapters of books on a per-project contract basis.

I performed extensive copyedits on public policy reports, toolkits, and fact sheets. I do this working from home, on a contract basis.

I authored numerous grant proposals, web copy, letters of inquiry, and direct mail fundraising letters. I also developmentally edited Invitation to Service, COTS’ book of volunteer and client stories.

I authored text for advertising postcards, door hangars, and promotional emails, as well as long-form profiles of graduates that were featured on the DMAC website.

I composed educational materials (including a portfolio of all IONS’ fundable projects) and grant proposals.

I ghostwrote columns on the topic of tantric sexuality. (I was credited at the bottom of these columns, though the author of record was Suzie Heumann of tantra.com.) Here is one of them:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suzie-heumann/sex-plain-or-profound-wha_b_1018594.html

In about a year, I ghostwrote over a hundred articles about various medical conditions for Kaiser’s “My Doctor Online” web sites.

I composed and edited text for the company’s Web site, newsletters, datasheets, promotional emails, and other marketing materials.

I composed newsletter articles and annual reports.

I composed a series of booklets for stroke survivors, which are now distributed by—and bear the imprint of—the American Stroke Association. I also composed numerous informed consent and patient education documents.

I authored newsletter and newspaper articles, brochures, speeches, Web site copy, press releases, ad copy, letters of appeal to donors, grant proposals, event materials, and a series of essays about the history and culture of the hospital.Also, though I left the formal employ of the hospital in '05, I continued on as the ghostwriter for Seton's San Francisco Heart and Vascular newsletter for another 6 years. Here is an example of a short article I researched and wrote for this newsletter:http://marcwordsmith.com/pdfs/lowfat.pdf