Sandra Spicher Email & Phone Number

Bellingham, Wa, Us

Remote

Austin, Texas Area

I edit books, websites, and articles for authors and publishers. I also create book indexes from unboundpage proofs, especially for books that include Spanish. This work requires attention to detail andadherence to deadlines and style guides. Microsoft Office, G Suite, HTML, SEO, WordPress, SKY Index Professional, and Adobe Creative Suite are tools I use regularly.

Remote

Editing training materials for Microsoft. Focusing on style, accessibility, and readability as a GP Strategies staff member.

Austin, Texas Area

Working with writers and instructional designers, I edit online course content and test questions, surveys, presentations, and emails. Readability and audience engagement guide my approach. I also coordinate the team’s Spanish projects, answering queries and reviewing translations. I write in-house newsletters. And I built our in-house style guides for English and Spanish.

Austin, Texas Area

Proofreading, copyediting, and indexing for academic and trade books, specializing in books that include Spanish.

Austin, Texas Area

During my fellowship year as a project manager, I supervised the editing and production of books. I’d also resolve questions between authors, freelancers, acquisitions editors, and production staff. During my fellowship, I also indexed one book and copyedited three.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

As a writer for Lake Travis Lifestyle, I would discover local businesses and research, interview, and write about them. You can read my work here: https://laketravislifestyle.com/author/sandra-spicher/. Lake Travis Lifestyle was a content marketing site for Todd Hower Realty.

Austin, Texas Area

When Planview releases new versions of its enterprise project management software, online documentation and training materials need to be updated. I made sure those materials were clear and accurate so that customers can easily grasp new features. I also went through the online help files using MindTouch CMS and updated articles and illustrations so that they matched the articles in the training books.

Technical writer/editor and publication manager for the Institute for Advanced Technology (IAT), a grant-funded university research center. Editing, proofreading, and tracking submissions for scientific and technical papers, proposals, and progress reports to sponsors as well as brochures, proposals, and posters for use at conferences.

Evaluating and critiquing fiction and nonfiction manuscripts for publication and recommending editorial services and awards.

I evaluated manuscript submissions and maintained the website. Once a manuscript was accepted, I did a substantive edit, ensuring that all the story lines were complete and fulfilling, characterization consistent, and dialogue not stilted or used to dump information.

Writing and posting content for hybridcars.com and ethicalshopping.com. On a part-time basis, I researched and wrote blogs and assigned articles, performed website administration tasks such as monitoring forums and blocking spam, and provided graphics for the sites.

Mfa, Fiction And Screenwriting

Bachelor Of Arts, English (Creative Writing Concentration), Spanish Minor

As an editorial assistant at the Bellingham Review, I was a preliminary reader of entries for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction.

Education record