I have been a professional copy editor and line editor for 45 years. I began on the West Coast working for Stanford University News and Publications and Stanford Press; since moving to New York in 1993 I have been senior copy editor for Marie Claire, Talk Magazine, and Travel+Leisure, where I became copy chief, and have freelanced for More, Self, and Time. I have also been freelance copy and line editor for books published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Melville House Press, and Verso Press, among other clients, and am about to retire from the staff of The Week magazine, where I have worked for the past 10 years.More...