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Service Types: Book Coaching , Editing , Illustration , Website Creation Experience Level : Senior First Time Author Friendly : Yes In-House Publishing Experience: Yes Availability : Currently Booking Years in Editorial Field: 28 Years as Editorial Freelancer: 28 Member Directory Bio: Maria Siano, PhD, is a writer, editor, and adjunct professor. Since 1998 she has taught professional writing, media studies, new media, and communication courses, both online and in-person, at several institutions, currently at Johns Hopkins University. For the past 27 years, she has been a writer and editor for academic publishers, nonprofit organizations, newspapers, magazines, and fiction and non-fiction publishers. She holds a PhD from Rutgers University in Communication/Media Studies. She is also available for virtual mentoring/coaching sessions. Instructor for Intro to APA Style course available through EFA (See Education section of the EFA website). Contact: siano29@yahoo.com Skills: Book Coaching , Coaching , Consulting , Copyediting , Curriculum development , Design/Layout , Developmental/Substantive editing , Formatting , Illustration , Instructional design , Line editing , Literary coaching , Manuscript evaluation , Marketing and promotion , Project management , Proofreading , Reporting , Research , Self-publishing , Sensitivity reading , Website Creation , Writing Subject Area Specialties: Advertising-PR , Anthropology , Arts , Arts, Performing , Arts, Visual , Business , Crafts , Ecology/Environment , Education , Film/TV/Theater , Food and cooking , Gardening , Health , History , Humor , Law , Leadership , LGBTQIA , Library and information science , Lifestyle , Linguistics , Marketing , Multicultural Interest , Music , Nonprofit Organizations , Parenting/Family , Performing Arts , Personal Finance , Philosophy , Political science , Politics , Popular Culture , Psychology , Public Policy , Real Estate , Religion/Spirituality , Self-help , Social Work , Sociology , Travel , Visual Arts , Women's studies Nonfiction Genres: Academic , Bibliographies , Cookbooks , Curriculum , Dictionaries and Encyclopedias , Disability Issues , Dissertations , Glossaries , Health Professions , How-to , Humanities , Literature , Narrative Nonfiction , Personal Finance , Self-help , Social Sciences , True Crime Document Types : Academic Materials , Assessments , Autobiography , Biographies , Blogs , Book proposals , Catalogs , Corporate communications , Creative nonfiction , Dissertations/Theses , Ebooks , E-learning , Essays , Family histories , Government documents , Grant proposals , Journals , Magazines , Memoirs , Multimedia , Newsletters , Newspapers , Novellas , Novels , Obituaries , Promotional materials , Recipes , Reference materials , Resumes and cover letters , Reviews , Short stories , Social media , Speeches , Technical materials , Textbooks , Training materials , Websites , White papers Audience Types: Adult , Children , College , High school , Middle school , New adult , Young adult Editing Languages: English Editorial Styles: American Psychological Association (APA) , Associated Press (AP) , Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) , Modern Language Association (MLA) Other Styles: House/author styles Software: Acrobat , Excel , Google Docs , Google Forms , Google Sheets , PowerPoint , Word