Deanna Brady

Here is a brief biography of Deanna Brady, writer-editor:

Deanna Brady is a highly versatile freelance writer and editor with more than two decades of experience in both fiction and nonfiction literature. She edits, rewrites, and ghostwrites novels and stories (including literary fiction), self-help books, biographies and memoirs, cover and query letters, proposals, articles, scripts, textbooks, business communications, marketing material, and Web content. Her many happy clients greatly appreciate her expertise, gentle guidance, meticulous care, and ability to preserve their individual voices and help make their work shine.

Known as an “editor’s editor,” Deanna is adept with ESL, dialects, and translated text. She specializes in fantasy and young adult fiction, historical and creative nonfiction, as well as projects concerning spirituality, ecology, Native American Indian and other indigenous cultures, psychology, and complementary medicine. For ten years she was the editor of an internationally published monthly inspirational magazine. She has written and edited numerous children's textbooks and is an award-winning author of short fiction and poetry. She taught for a dozen years in the Continuing Education Department at California State University and speaks regularly at literary conferences.

Deanna works with a broad spectrum of clients in widely varied fields. She has written and edited advertising and marketing copy, prospectuses, and training materials for such diverse clients as IBM, AT&T, Omnicom Group Worldwide, George Marciano/Guess, Learning Tree International, Crabtree Publishing Company, Canon Communications, and the RAND Corporation. She has an extensive background in the entertainment industry and is a voter for the SAG Awards and the Film Independent Spirit Awards. She has volunteered her services on behalf of various charitable organizations, and her grant proposals have garnered nearly half a million dollars for nonprofit groups.

Contact Deanna at getwords (a) gmail.com -or- writeditor (a) gmail.com to request additional information about writing or editorial assistance.

Links to articles on rewriting your manuscripts:

www.wcwriters.com/faculty/Brady_Deanna/RewriteQuestionsforAuthors-db4.pdf

www.wcwriters.com/faculty/Brady_Deanna/RefiningYourVision-TheArtofRewrite-4a.pdf

Projects include the following works available at Amazon.com, among others.

Editing, Rewriting, and Ghostwriting:

Magical Manifesting; From Ecstasy to Success; and The Seven Lost Secrets…, Dr. Kala H. Kos

Help Me Understand My Child, Florence Bracy

Monkey Business: A History of Nonhuman Primate Rights, Erika Fleury

One Wizard Place; Sentinel; and Sidhe, D. M. Paul

The Low-Cost Pilot’s License, Cody Bias

The Divine Tempest, Herrick Erickson-Brigl

Unplugging the Patriarchy, Lucia René

The Big AHA!: Breakthroughs in Resolving and Preventing Workplace Conflict, Bill Wiersma

Mayday! Asking for Help in Time of Need, M. Nora Klaver

Native Nations of North America, series, Crabtree Publishing Company

Writing:

The Woodworkers, Crabtree Publishing

Guess/Georges Marciano presentation book (for Ben Cziller at LaunchCraft Design)

The Raven Chronicles literary journal

Writer’s Digest - 2018 Short Short Story competition (winner)

Contact: getwords at gmail.com / writediting at gmail.com