Working with Jeff Deck

For Readings and Speaking Appearances only, please contact jodisolomonspkrs@gmail.com.

I am an editor and a writer with years of experience in editing, copy editing, proofreading, writing, and editorial production.  If you are interested in putting that experience to work for your project or organization, drop me a line at jeffdeck [at] jeffdeck.com.  I offer competitive rates and fast turnaround.  Credentials below:

JEFF DECK

EDITING EXPERIENCE

Seacoast Media Group, Portsmouth, NH
Part-time Paginator and Copy Editor, March 2012 – present

  • Copyedit, lay out pages, and perform other production duties for the various papers of Seacoast Media Group, including Portsmouth Herald, Exeter News-Letter, Hampton Union, York Weekly, York County Coast Star

 PreMediaGlobal, Plymouth, MA
Freelance Copy Editor, December 2011 – present

  • Copyedit academic journal articles for SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

M|C Communications, Boston, MA
Freelance Copy Editor, January 2011 – present

  • Copyedit and proofread medical conference syllabus material, speaker slides, and marketing material
  • Fact check speaker slides

Capcom, Japan
Freelance Dialogue Editor for Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, April 2011 – June 2011

  • Edited in-game dialogue for style and content, for major publisher’s video game for the Xbox 360
  • Met weekly and daily deadlines for submitting dialogue editing
  • Researched regional dialects and expressions to add authenticity and color to dialogue

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time (Crown Publishers), United States
Co-author, Speaker, and Promoter, April 2009 – October 2010

  • Wrote full-length narrative nonfiction book based on cross-country typo-hunting journey, The Great Typo Hunt, which became a Boston Globe and Amazon bestseller and Indie Next Notable pick
  • Promoted book on three-month, 36-city national book tour with co-author Benjamin D. Herson, through reading events at bookstores, media interviews and guest pieces, and airport book signings
  • Endorsed by Steven Pinker, David Crystal, Richard Lederer, and other accomplished authors
  • Covered by NPR, Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC World News, Washington Post, Boston Globe, New Yorker, Salon, CTV, and many other print, radio, TV, and online outlets: partial listing with links

M|C Communications, Boston, MA
Editorial Production Assistant/Associate, July 2008 – May 2010

  • Proofread and assembled syllabus material for multiple medical conferences
  • Managed editorial production schedule for conference syllabi and presentation slides
  • Wrote marketing copy for promotional e-mails and letters; worked onsite at two conferences

Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL), United States
Founder and Member, March 2008 – May 2008

  • Traveled around the United States to find and correct typos in public signage
  • Maintained daily blog detailing typo-hunting
  • Received press coverage from NPR, ABC World News, Today Show, BBC, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, CBC, and dozens of other local, national, and international media outlets

Heldref Publications, Washington, DC
Managing Editor of ReVision and Associate Editor of Rocks & Minerals, April 2003 – September 2005

  • Collected and edited articles for ReVision, an academic journal exploring the fields of consciousness studies and transpersonal psychology; formatted articles in Quark and directed graphics department in journal design
  • Edited and formatted articles in Adobe InDesign for Rocks & Minerals, a magazine for collectors and geologists; acted as in-house liaison for Cincinnati-based managing editor; edited and proofread layout
  • Managed five to nine contributors per issue of ReVision and solicited content from executive and consulting editorial boards; coordinated the journal’s peer review process for manuscript submissions; worked with marketing department for Rocks & Minerals and ReVision

EDUCATION & SKILLS

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
B. A. in English: Creative Writing & Literature, June 2002
French Foreign Study: Paris, France, March 2001 – June 2001

Computer Skills: Windows and Mac OS; Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook; OpenOffice; Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, InCopy, Pagemaker, Illustrator; WordPress, Joomla; QuarkXPress, Eudora, Final Cut Pro, Pinnacle Studio, SalesLogix, QuickBooks; various social media

3 thoughts on “Working with Jeff Deck”

  1. Michael Godfrey

    If you’re looking for things to correct, try Microsoft Office 2010. In the Publisher program, the words business and colorful are misspelled. One would think software that enhances your business would take care that there are no mistakes.

  2. David

    Hi, I heard Benjamin and Jeff on NPR’s “Here and Now”. Interesting interview and I was thinking that if spelling is going to be corrected then maybe pronunciation should also be corrected. On “Here and Now” one of you said “To err is human”. The correct pronunciation is “er” not “air”.

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