Editor of manuscripts at No Starch Press, and a stenographic reporter in training.
Two practices. One garden. Both still growing.
I work where speech becomes text and text becomes a book. I tend to language: slowly, on the page; and learning to tend it quickly, in the room.
Currently at No Starch Press, where I edit titles across security, programming, and creative technical nonfiction. Developmental, line, copy. Slowly, line by line, the way you'd train a vine onto a trellis.
Alongside the manuscript work, I'm learning a different season of the same craft: machine shorthand, building toward realtime stenographic reporting. Catching words as they fall, before they scatter.
Different speeds. Same hands. One garden.
Recent specimens from the editor's desk.
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Six years tending manuscripts. The slow work: shaping arcs, smoothing lines, holding the author's voice steady through revision.
Newly planted. The fast work: machine shorthand, training to catch every word as it's spoken, in real time.