Editorial Freelancers Association
Member Profile
Kelly Besecke
Bookmark Editing
As a trained qualitative sociologist, I help scholars in the social sciences and related fields finish their books and articles. I offer two kinds of editing that reflect the two kinds of help academic authors most: detailed help with writing style and big-picture help with decisions about organization and content. My goal with both line editing and developmental editing is to help authors communicate their ideas in a clear, compelling, reader-friendly way so they end up with a manuscript they’re proud of and ready to submit for publication.
I think of my clients as experts in research who have brilliant ideas, and my goal is to help them communicate their expertise and ideas clearly and compellingly to their target audience. I work with scholars in a range of subject fields, from my home subjects of sociology, anthropology, and religious studies to art history, counseling psychology, public policy, educational studies, urban studies, African and African American Studies, communications, media studies, religious studies, modern languages, and business. My clients’ work has been published by a variety of academic journals and scholarly presses such as University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, Rutgers University Press, and Routledge. About half the authors I work with speak a language other than English as their first language.
I have a BA in sociology and anthropology from Carleton College and an MS and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I taught at Colorado College and Kenyon College before transitioning to writing and editing full time. My research has been published in top sociology journals, and my book You Can’t Put God in a Box: Thoughtful Spirituality in a Rational Age was published with Oxford University Press. I live in Austin, Texas, and work with clients all over the world.
Austin, TX
US
Business phone: 512-318-8259
Email: kelly@bookmarkediting.com
http://www.bookmarkediting.com
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Years in the field: 15
Years freelancing: 15
Kelly Besecke
As a trained qualitative sociologist, I help scholars in the social sciences and related fields finish their books and articles. I offer two kinds of editing that reflect the two kinds of help academic authors most: detailed help with writing style and big-picture help with decisions about organization and content. My goal with both line editing and developmental editing is to help authors communicate their ideas in a clear, compelling, reader-friendly way so they end up with a manuscript they’re proud of and ready to submit for publication.
I think of my clients as experts in research who have brilliant ideas, and my goal is to help them communicate their expertise and ideas clearly and compellingly to their target audience. I work with scholars in a range of subject fields, from my home subjects of sociology, anthropology, and religious studies to art history, counseling psychology, public policy, educational studies, urban studies, African and African American Studies, communications, media studies, religious studies, modern languages, and business. My clients’ work has been published by a variety of academic journals and scholarly presses such as University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, Rutgers University Press, and Routledge. About half the authors I work with speak a language other than English as their first language.
I have a BA in sociology and anthropology from Carleton College and an MS and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I taught at Colorado College and Kenyon College before transitioning to writing and editing full time. My research has been published in top sociology journals, and my book You Can’t Put God in a Box: Thoughtful Spirituality in a Rational Age was published with Oxford University Press. I live in Austin, Texas, and work with clients all over the world.
