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ghostwriters

      and editors

Meet the team of creative writing professionals known as Writers in the Sky. Our alliance includes ghostwriters, business writers, copy editors, proofreaders and book marketers, as well manuscript development assistants, a children's manuscript critic, a writing instructor and a virtual assistant. 

 

Contracted independently, the multi-talented members of this group have distinct backgrounds and a wide variety of experience that allows them to specialize in writing, editing and proofreading for all genres. 

 

Because our team works in collaboration with one another, we are able to produce a high-quality product with prompt turnaround on just about any type of writing, editing or book marketing projects.

Cindi Brown
Ghostwriter

 

Cindi Brown is a versatile writer and editor and a lifelong resident of Nashville. She received her BA in English and Religious Studies from Vanderbilt University, where she edited Slightly Amusing, the campus humor magazine. 

 

Since graduating, Cindi has written for print and electronic media, as well as radio and television. She has worked as a news producer at WKRN News 2, a stringer for States News Service, and an item/passage writer for large-scale academic assessments. She is currently at work on a grant-funded project to create a year-long curriculum exploring the sacred texts of the world's major religions. 

 

When not engaging in professional writing pursuits, Cindi enjoys blogging about spirituality and personality psychology (www.enneagramagency.blogspot.com), judging mystery novel contests, and tinkering with her own science fiction novel-in-progress.

 

Cindi is comfortable working in a variety of genres and mediums and is happy to provide clients with audio transcription, editing, manuscript critiques, copy editing, and ghostwriting services as needed.  

 
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Deborah Wilbrink
Editor, ghostwriter, developmental editor and proofreader

 

Deborah Wilbrink specializes in the genres of memoir and history. Whether a personal memoir or history of a family, business, church or community, Deborah can manage your book project from conception to your eager readers' hands!

 

Deborah offers private or group lessons in creative and academic writing, with an emphasis on originality. She has written four grants for non-profits, all of which were granted; and she appropriately monitored and reported to the grantors for the grantees. "For a successful grant, not only must one clearly meet requirements; but one must also network strong partners and gather significant endorsement," she advises.

 

Deborah's first works were a graphic novel she wrote at the age of nine and a poem, "Beauties of the Earth", which was published the same year. A degree in Journalism and Film from the University of Georgia led to work at CNN, and to writing Ad Club award-winning commercials and corporate videos. She also won awards from the Associate Press and the Phoenix Press Club. Even overseas, in 2000, Deborah was acclaimed for her writing and received a special scholarship to Oxford University in England. 

 
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Megan Pacella
Editor
 

Megan Pacella's wide range of expertise and skills includes writing and editing human interest stories, history features, music news and reviews, business content, healthcare content, and healthy living tips. 

 

Megan's first paying writing gig was manning the writing center at Lipscomb University from 2006 to 2007. There, she worked evenings tutoring individual students to become better writers. It didn't take long for her to realize two things: she loved improving manuscripts, and she had a knack for it.

 

After graduating with a B.A. in English from Lipscomb University, Megan immediately started working for Hammock., Inc, a custom content firm in Nashville, Tennessee. For three years, she helped manage three magazines: MyBusiness, American Spirit, and Soldier and Family Foundations. In that time, Megan rose through the ranks from editorial assistant, to assistant editor, to managing editor. 

 

In 2010, she moved on to Creek Content, a content strategy firm that focuses on improving content for healthcare companies. There, she works on curating and improving healthcare content related to exercise, tobacco cessation, appointment, adherence, and depression prevention. She also writes and edits a bi-annual newsletter for Vanderbilt Orthopedics. 

 

Today, Megan splits her time writing and editing music, healthcare, business, history, and human interest content. Yes, that's a lot of different hats to wear! And she wears each of them well. You can follow Megan's current work and adventures atMegan_Writes.com

Whether you need a friendly editor who will guide you through the process of improving your work, or you need a ghostwriter who will work tirelessly to nail down the tone and scope of your work, ask for Megan

 
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Margaret DaisleyEditor

 

Margaret Daisley is an editor with a long history of conducting market research and writing or editing reports of research results for various companies. Sample projects include for instance, how satisfied employees are with their work situations, how happy customers are with a company’s service, how impressed clients are with a web site re-design, what the real estate trends in a given region have been during a particular time frame, and lists — i.e. the top law firms in the U.S. and the world, the top real estate agencies in New York City and Long Island’s East End, the most frequently-used software — basically the “top” in a given category, based on the client’s criteria.

 

Depending upon the project, Margaret has been involved from inception, advising on questionnaire and project design, to hosting web surveys and compiling data and graph samples, to conducting interviews, archival and internet research, to data analysis and report writing, to report design and publication.

 

Margaret’s graduate school work (M.A in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) included a department-wide survey and resulting (co-written) article, “Grading as a Rhetorical Construct,” published in The Theory and Practice of Grading (SUNY Press, 1998), still in publication and used by academics. As a grad student, she also published many scholarly articles based on her ethnographic research about the technologies students were adapting to at the time (early 1990s).  

 

Margaret worked for many years at ALM Media as head of research for The American Lawyer, National Law Journal and Corporate Counsel, publications which cover the world’s top law firms and corporate legal departments. When ALM launched its business-side research division, Margaret joined their team, to edit research reports written by outside experts. She also conducted original research for ALM (of one million lawyers) and wrote a very popular report on “Billing Rates and Billing Practices” of U.S. lawyers.

 

Margaret has also done extensive work as a consulting research editor for The Real Deal, which covers the commercial and residential real estate market in New York City and the tri-state area. She also worked with Portfolio Media / Law360, now part of Lexis-Nexis, to develop a research division. She continues to conduct research and provide research support for a variety of corporate and media clients around the U.S.

 

WHY YOU MIGHT NEED MARGARET’S ASSISTANCE WITH YOUR RESEARCH:

 

  • You are considering conducting research or a survey but need direction and planning assistance.

  • You have already conducted that survey but need someone to analyze the results and write an executive report (and/or create a PowerPoint) of the survey results.

  • You have the basis for a White Paper that you’d like to distribute to clients, but need someone to fine-tune the writing and graphs and make it “look nice.”

  • You are a writer of a non-fiction work and want to incorporate supporting data that goes beyond anecdotal evidence. In short, you need someone to conduct that survey for you.

  • You want to create your own nightly “Top 10 Lists,” now that David Letterman is retiring.

 

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Dawn Daisley
Graphic Design/Art Direction
 

Dawn is a seasoned designer and  works in publishing and advertising. She is  proficient in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop and flies through these applications creating book design, websites, custom supplements for flagship magazines, sponsored publications, directories, newsletters, brochures, press kits, and various other promotional strategies. She also has access to a worldwide network of photographers and illustrators. She also had the opportunity to work extensively in film, annimations, and video productions

 

Dawn is  a strong team player and through her career has managed staff, overseen launching of new campaigns, new business proposals, worked on global campaigns, worked on conceptual and branding of new products and campaigns, and presented to clients.

 
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Katie Perry
Virtual Administrative Assistant
 

Serving as the virtual administrative assistant to the WITS team is Tennessee native Katie Perry, who now lives and works remotely from the Charleston, South Carolina area. She is responsible for much of the online distribution of articles, media releases, podcast guest info, blog posts, blog tours and social marketing pieces written by our network members. 

 

Reporting directly to WITS owner Dana Micheli, Katie is in charge of putting together each issue of the WITS Newsletter. 

 

She is also available to work with clients who need a virtual assistant on a per-project basis. 

 
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