Services
Three kinds of work, all built on the same skill: making complicated material clear without making it wrong.
Technical and regulatory editing
For documents where an error costs more than a delay.
- Policy and procedure manuals
- Research reports and briefs
- Compliance and regulatory content
- Style guides and editorial standards
- Section 508 accessibility review
- Plain language rewrites
Background: Seven years editing classified and unclassified flight test documentation for the Department of Defense, and five years as lead editor for USDA's Economic Research Service.
Executive writing
Your leaders have things worth saying and no time to write them.
- Ghostwritten articles and op-eds
- LinkedIn thought leadership
- Speeches and talking points
- Briefing materials
- Executive and business books, 30,000 to 100,000 words
Background: I wrote executive messaging for USDA leadership addressing congressional staff, federal regulators, and national media, and I ghostwrite books for CEOs and founders.
Communications support
Extra hands, or someone to build the system.
- Internal and change communications
- Crisis and rapid-response messaging
- Editorial calendars and planning
- Production workflows and approval routing
- Writing training for subject matter experts
Background: I led change communications through a full agency transformation at USDA, run crisis and stakeholder communications at TriWest Healthcare Alliance, and trained 50+ economists to write for non-technical readers.
How engagements work
Project
One defined deliverable, fixed scope, fixed quote.
Retainer
A set amount of work each month. Good for executive writing and recurring publications.
Surge capacity
Help during a deadline crunch, a reorg, or a gap between hires. A small bench of vetted editors works under my direction when the volume calls for it.