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Putting the Right
Words in the Write Places
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Meet the Nashville, Tennessee team of ghostwriters, editors, proofreaders,
and virtual
assistant for Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services.
Our multi-talented team is able to do an excellent job on just
about any type of writing project.
Our editors are also writers. Our virtual assistant works with authors and
businesses to enhance online publicity.
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The Writers in the sky team |
Nashville resident Yvonne Perry is a full-time freelance writer, editor, published author,
public speaker, and the owner of Writers in the
Sky Creative Writing Services. As a highly sought after
ghostwriter, she enjoys helping people get their thoughts into a
well-written book. She has authored, ghostwritten, edited or
assisted authors with more than thirty books.
She is the author of six children’s eBooks, 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 latest book
Right to
Recover, Winning the Political and Religious Wars over Stem Cell
Research in America, is an Award-Winning Finalist in the Current
Events: Political/Social of the National Best Books 2007 Awards.
See Yvonne's books. Yvonne is also an active member of
Tennessee Writers Alliance.
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, but as an editor of both fiction and
non-fiction, she is able to provide assistance on any book or
document.
With her wide variety of writing experience that includes impressive
résumés, personal and professional bios, high-quality press releases
and articles, as well as books, Yvonne is
ready to work with you on your next project.
Read Yvonne’s Full Bio
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Barbara Milbourn is our Nashville-based freelance writer and Grammatika-certified editor focused on
developmental and copy editing and proofreading.
She is a member of Tennessee Writers Alliance, Toastmasters International, Tennessee Native Plants Society, Frist Center for the Visual
Arts, Cheekwood, and a local book club. As an officer and member of Toastmasters International, she writes and delivers contest-winning
speeches. Barbara is a frequent book reviewer and author interviewer on Writers in the Sky podcast, and an
articles contributor to Writers in the Sky newsletter. She’s minutes-writer and newsletter contributor for her homeowner's
association, and participates weekly in a small writing group with other Natalie Goldberg students.
Barbara is able to serve as copy editor, proofreader, or
book shepherd to those needing assistance with a preparing a book to
be published.
She has edited or proofread more than a dozen books for WITS clients. She is also a fantastic and honest book reviewer.
See the
book reviews she has written and posted on Amazon.com.
Contact Barbara
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Sarah Moore is our author's assistant in charge of helping
authors with online book promotion. She is able to create media kits
that get the attention authors need to promote their books to radio
and TV stations. Plus, she has written numerous high-quality bios,
articles, media releases, resumes, query letters, and book proposals. Sarah facilitates a variety of marketing plans that include
virtual book tours, podcast interviews, media releases, and book
reviews.
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.
Ms. Moore is an excellent writer, editor, and
proofreader. She is able to give comprehensive
manuscript
evaluations and
book reviews, and write business plans and
proposals. Her experience as a blogger is highly sought after by those who need
quality content written and posted to their blogs on an ongoing basis.
As the podcast coordinator, Sarah’s role includes scheduling
interviews for our writing show, creating
promotional pieces to feature authors on our blog, writing press releases, and serving as one of our podcast hosts.
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 Arts 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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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.
Minimum charge is $75 for a manuscript of up to five double-spaced pages.
Additional pages of the same manuscript (beyond five pages) are $10.
This includes 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.
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 WITS ghostwriters.
Reporting directly to WITS owner Yvonne Perry, Katie collects and adds html code to the material sent in for
publication
in our monthly newsletter. She also helps as a marketing assistant for our clients who need a virtual assistant on a per project basis.
And, yes, Katie and Yvonne Perry are related. Katie is married to Yvonne's step-son, Jackson.
Katie and Jackson have three beautiful children: Keilie, McKevlin, and Lochlan.
Contact: Katie at writersinthesky dot net
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From time to time, we have projects that need an immediate turnaround. If our current writers and editors are unavailable
for this emergency-type situation,
we will refer your project to one of our auxiliary team members. These
qualified professionals have been through the same training as our
active team members, and work under the
supervision of Yvonne Perry to assure that your project is handled appropriately and that the work
provided meets or surpasses your expectation.
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Team Positions |
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All 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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Last updated: 02/03/10
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