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Putting the Right
Words in the Write Places
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Meet the Nashville, Tennessee network of ghostwriters, business writers, manuscript development assistant, copy editors, proofreaders, book marketers,
children's manuscript critiquer, writing instructor, and virtual
assistant known as Writers in the Sky Team.
Contracted independently, the multi-talented members of this
alliance 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 a produce
a high-quality product with prompt turnaround on just
about any type of writing, editing, or book marketing project.
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The Writers in the sky team |
Nashville resident Yvonne Perry is published author,
public speaker, and the owner of Writers in the
Sky Creative Writing Services. Perry is a graduate of American Institute of Holistic Theology where
she earned a Bachelor of Science in Metaphysics. Naturally, her
writing expertise and interest lies in the new age, spiritual, and
metaphysical genres. Yvonne is also an active member of
Tennessee Writers Alliance and faculty
for Live-Spirit and
Spirit Authors.
She is the author of twelve children’s e-books, a
humorous book about
mid-life crisis, and
More Than Meets the Eye: True Stories about
Death, Dying, and Afterlife, intended to comfort those who are grieving the loss of a loved one.
Her book on stem cell research was an award-winning finalist in the Current
Events: Political/Social genre of the National Best Books 2007 Awards.
Yvonne recently released book has become a best-seller, Whose Stuff Is This?
Finding Freedom from the Negative Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, a book to help people who are too empathic for their own good.
See Yvonne's bookstore for more information.
In addition to providing oversight for the WITS network,
blog, and
podcast, Yvonne hosts a weekly talk show,
We Are One in Spirit
where she interviews guests who see their true selves as loving, accepting, and unified spirit beings.
Each show gives information about spiritual practices that include a blend of many traditions, ideas, and teachings to facilitate well
being in body, mind, and spirit. Having earned her Distinguished Toastmaster award, she is available to speak on any of these
spiritual topics as
well as writing, publishing, and book promotion.
Read Yvonne’s Full
Writing Bio
View Yvonne's Metaphysical
Author/Speaker Bio |
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Dana Micheli is a freelance writer, editor, proofreader, and journalist. She has written and edited works of fiction and nonfiction,
including novels (ghostwritten), news articles, resumes, business plans, and restaurant reviews. She also researched and wrote the legal and
housing sections of New York: The Complete Resident’s Guide (Explorer Publishing).
Before pursuing her writing career full-time, Dana worked as a Systems Advocate for the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence, where she lobbied
state and federal politicians on behalf of victims of abuse. She also served as the Manager of PR/Communications for The New York Women’s Foundation,
where she was responsible for writing press releases, articles for the Web site, and liaising with the media. In addition, she has worked for several media outlets,
writing and researching legal, political and human interest stories for print, online and television. Because Dana has been working as a freelance writer for many years,
she has gained expertise in many types of writing and she has excelled at online
book promotion for authors. She is able to assist you with promoting your book via
social networking, virtual book tours,
podcast
interviews, and media kits.
Dana has a B.A. in English from Southern Connecticut University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School. She lives in New York City.
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 Rick Lewis has lived in Nashville for eighteen years after moving here to attend Vanderbilt University, where he was an English major with an emphasis in creative writing.
Mr. Lewis has been a professional writer since graduation, first as a news producer at WKRN News 2 (for seven years) and now as senior writer in the public relations department
at GS&F. He is also a contributing editor at www.the-editing-room.com, a website dedicated to lampooning popular movies by rewriting them in five pages.
As a professional business-to-business and business-to-customer writer
and editor, Rick provides clients with superb press releases, résumés, marketing literature, industry articles, web copy, blogs, speeches, case studies,
award entries, and anything else that requires words to describe how simply amazing a product or service is.
In addition to his business writing expertise, Rick is an avid reader of screenplays and he's currently enrolled in screenwriting classes. He also enjoys reading, writing, and editing genre fiction, especially fantasy and sci-fi.
See the business writing services he provides.
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 Our professional
résumé writer, Vicky DeCoster, has nearly twenty-five years of experience writing résumés for all levels, including executives, middle managers, and administrative professionals. While playing key roles at three international accounting firms, Vicky gained over twenty years of valuable corporate experience.
See WITS resume service.
Vicky is an award-winning freelance writer and author of three books of humorous essays. She currently manages an in-home consulting business where she partners with small businesses to help with marketing efforts, social media, newsletters, and brochures. Her freelance experience includes writing humorous essays and articles for
Atlanta Singles, Metro Parents, Omaha Magazine, Her, Omaha World-Herald, absolutewrite.com,
Single Life, and boomerwomenspeak.com. She has written humor columns for
Her magazine in Omaha, Nebraska, and regularly writes a column for Still Moments magazine based in Nova Scotia. She is a member of the international blogger team on thespiritedwoman.com and serves on the
author council for a publishing company.
Vicky is a member of the Association of Business Writers. In her spare time, she travels around the Midwest for book signings and promotes the healthy benefits of incorporating laughter into every day life.
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Ghostwriter, editor, and proofreader Sarah Moore has written and edited
numerous high-quality bios, articles, books, media releases, resumes, query
letters, and book proposals. She works as a developmental editor,
copy editor, and proofreader to help authors get their work ready
to publish.
As a former public high school teacher and academic advisor for
campus students at University of Maryland and Boston University as
well as a former research and writing instructor at Middle Tennessee
State University, Sarah assists college or high school students
seeking a writing tutor or needing expert help with academic papers.
In her work on Congressional, gubernatorial, and local council
campaigns (including her own run for the District 14 seat on the
Nashville Metro Council), some of her primary responsibilities included
writing Web content for the candidates, writing editorials and
policy papers on behalf of the candidates, and doing policy and
opinion research (Internet, newspapers, blogs, etc). Naturally,
Sarah enjoys writing political pieces and penning editorials on
current event topics. However, she is also an avid sports fan, so
call on her when you need a sports writer.
Moore received her bachelor of art degrees in both government and
politics and Russian area studies, as well as a Master’s Degree in
Secondary Education from the University of Maryland at College Park.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa member who graduated with departmental
honors in government and politics.
Contact Sarah
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Kristen House is not only a skilled writer and editor, she is also a
writing instructor at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
She loves words like kids love candy; she cannot get enough.
She takes great pride in vanquishing comma splices, eradicating dangling modifiers, and helping writers understand how the form of their writing can best compliment the content.
She considers herself a punctuation hero as opposed to a grammar Nazi: she will not stand in the "ten items or less" aisle, insisting it should read, "ten items or fewer;" she laments
the rampant misuse of the apostrophe and of quotation marks; and the sight of colloquialized misspellings (tonite, kwik, omg, etc.) cause a sinew deep in her soul to writhe in pain.
Kristen's novel, Jimmie Ann's Divinity and the Blue Ribbon Bakery, is a Southern mother-daughter story that celebrates friendship, family, and mouth-watering comfort food.
Her work has been published both online and in print, and she is equally at ease with non-fiction and academic work as she is with fiction. She has perfected the art of writing query
letters, can whip an academic paper into shape in no time, and thrills at the opportunity of ghost-writing and helping fiction writers hone their craft.
Kristen especially loves working with young authors. See her summer writing
program, A Novel Idea: www.anovelideanashville.com.
In short, she is a great lover of words who not only knows and appreciates applying the rules, but also understands the importance of creativity and poetic license.
She finds great joy in the transformative power of style. To that end, she considers the precision of speech to be an art form: the delicate balance of beauty and function.
She would love to put her passion to work for you.
Contact Kristen
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As a published writer and long-time member of several critique groups, Rachelle
Burk has critiqued literally hundreds of manuscripts.
Many have gone on to publication. She also served for three years as
a creative writing critiquer for a teen arts festival.
She specializes offering manuscript evaluation for children and teen literature, including fiction, nonfiction, and rhyming stories.
Rachelle's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children has appeared in national magazines such as
Highlights,
Scholastic Scope, and Pockets. She is the author of
Tree House in
a Storm, a picture book published by Stemmer House Publishers (2009).
Her nonfiction story, "Blind Ambition," was awarded Highlights Magazine
Author of the Month award in January 2009.
Ms. Burke provides feedback on formatting, choice of title, target age
length, opening paragraph and conclusion, dialogue, believability,
character development, voice, rhyme and meter (if applicable),
illustrations (if applicable), as well as line by line comments
within the text, including feedback about grammar, word choices,
sentence length, and structure for children's books.
Read more.
Contact Rachelle
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Serving as the virtual administrative assistant to the entire 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 Yvonne Perry, Katie is in charge of
putting together each issue of WITS newsletter.
She is also available to work with clients who need a virtual assistant on a per-project basis.
Contact Katie
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Team Positions |
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All contract positions with Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services are filled at this time, and we have a
waiting list of those who would like to become part of the WITS team. Therefore, we are not accepting inquiries
from freelancers wishing to join the team.
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