The Copper Fern Studio, LLC offers custom editorial project management and virtual assistance. That means you have a project to start (or finish!) and it gets handled while you go about the important functions of your day-to-day business. You’ll get the best of both worlds: classically trained experience with a contemporary sensibility.

It is fairly easy to find freelance editors to who can edit a book manuscript, or write marketing content. In fact, I serve those industries, too! It is harder to find someone who understands the complicated process of shepherding an idea through all of the steps it takes to have a properly registered business.

For example, all strong businesses require a clearly written business plan, a Statement of Use, policy guides, and procedure guides. If your organization is a nonprofit, you’ll also need surveys, program evaluations, grant proposals, and general communication for stakeholders. Don’t panic! It’s a lot to manage when all you want to do is focus on your dream of planning a coffee shop or feeding your neighbors. But The Copper Fern Studio can manage it. My services are especially suited for entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations that are concerned with education, community ties, social science, and the humanities. Because I love people, too!

Heart-Centered Clients

My clients include entrepreneurs and small businesses; independent schools and university departments; book publishers; nature conservation organizations; museums, to name a few. The services are fairly priced and flexible. Select a Fiddlehead package if you just need a handful of services. Select The Full Frond package if you want the entire project planned and executed on schedule and within budget. In either case, you decide what you need and I will provide it.

Sometimes you just might another pair of hands for a few hours or few a few days. In that case, choose the hourly Stomata package, which gives you room to breathe and helps you to meet urgent, short-term goals. If your environment needs a background check ahead of time, let me know.

Listening Carefully

By listening carefully to clients, I am able to discern and distill key information to combine trends and new technologies with traditional common sense. To do this, I extract from experience within corporate, educational, and entrepreneurial environments as well as university admissions, independent schools, trade book publishing, book packaging, and corporate technical editing organizations.

The Copper Fern Studio builds positive relationships with adults and students from all ideologies and backgrounds based on respect, sensitivity, and discretion.

Empathy Matters

After over thirty years of experience, I enhanced my research skills at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. My graduate research examines emotion expression on social media and the effects of neuroplasticity on empathy in children. How can preschool teachers can modify classroom management strategies to encourage peaceful neural development? Read more at the NeuroPacific Classroom.™

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