I write. I edit. I typeset. Where other things happen to words—inbetween things—I do those too. To be specific:

Types of writing: Copywriting, script writing, journalism, creative non-fiction, feature articles, online copy, and media/press kits.

Types of editing: Substantive and structural editing, copy editing, and proofreading.

Types of typesetting: Book design, layout, and typesetting.

Care to see more?

Book layout and typesetting:

The Decameron: Selected Tales (2017) coming soon

Coryat’s Crudities: Selected Tales (2017) coming soon

How to Be Good with Words (2017)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (2017)

A Plea for Emigration (2016)

Online print publications include:

Incline: Vancouver Island’s Online Magazine 2014

– Feature – The youngest ventriloquist in the world

Incline: Vancouver Island’s Online Magazine 2013
– Feature – Home again
– Feature – Moving day for VIU’s sturgeon

Articles for print publications include:

Nanaimo’s Gateway to Commerce Magazine, 2015
– Multiple Features
Nanaimo’s Gateway to Commerce Magazine, 2014
– Multiple Features
The Navigator Volume 45 Issue 14, Vancouver Island University
– Feature – The Hepburn Stone: witness of an unexplored time
The Navigator Volume 45 Issue 13, Vancouver Island University
– Feature – The youngest ventriloquist in the world
The Navigator Volume 45 Issue 9, Vancouver Island University
– News – CHLY Special General Meeting
The Navigator Volume 45 Issue 1, Vancouver Island University
– Feature – Farmers Appreciation Week
– Feature – Nanaimo caps off Farmers Appreciation Week with its own celebration: Harvest Festival
The Navigator Volume 44 Issue 7, Vancouver Island University
– Feature – On a consumer crazy train
The Navigator Volume 44 Issue 6, Vancouver Island University
– Feature – Behaviour is communication
The Nanaimo Daily News, 2012
– Homes By Design featuring David Gogo
The Navigator Volume 42, Vancouver Island University
– Book Review – Nettwerk: 25 Years of Music We Love
Speaking of Children, BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, Summer 2007
– Focus on the Future: BC teen named in Canada’s Top 20
The Nanaimo Daily News and Harbour City Star, 2004 – 2007
Weekly column: Sound Check
—Ryan McMahon
—Matt Mays
—Canadian Singer Songwriters

Copywriting, editing, and proofreading credits include:
– Nettwerk Music Group: Various compact disc liner notes and marketing materials
– Plenty: A Collection of Sarah McLachlan’s Favorite Recipes

Published creative non-fiction:
– Portal 2011, Vancouver Island University: Bye-bye Pants

And just for kicks, a first-year criminology class paper I wrote at Vancouver Island University (then Malaspina College). I include this not so much for the pithy prose—less with the pithy in those days—but for the quaint nostalgia attached to belief systems around digital rights management at the time. Man , if I’d known what was coming…
– Making Sense of Copyright Infringement Under Social Learning Theory