Well, why not? Can’t get any worse, though one shouldn’t tempt fate, right? Ended the year a bit slowly here at the studio. Projects for Demand Media, Cat Whisker’s number one online copyediting client, went from a deluge to a trickle. I went from handling about 75 articles a week to about 10. And no wonder–they’ve stockpiled over 4 million articles as web content for their various sites. Because of this astounding number, they are now turning to producing short videos as the next big demand in web content over the written word. Unfortunately, those videos won’t need our meticulous editing.

In other studio news, I have just launched the first enewsletter for one of my clients in Vermont, Ecolawn Applicator. My task was to create an electronic newsletter that mimicked the look of their site at www.EcolawnApplicator.com, write the copy for the newsletter, copy edit that copy (phew!), create live links back to the site, add some eye-catching images, and launch it. I chose Campaign Monitor for the launching pad, so to speak. I also use Campaign Monitor for the enewsletters I’ve been creating for another client www.AgresourceInc.com since their premiere enewsletter in the summer of 2009. Campaign Monitor has great support, software, server, and sandwiches. OK, I don’t know about their sandwiches. But for ease-of-use, pricing, and after-launch reports, Campaign Monitor can’t be beat.
Lastly, I’m working on some interesting fiction—my own and author Marliss Melton’s. I’m planning to publish an historical romance (1870s) as an ebook in the early summer (2012), through Cat Whisker’s publishing division, Cat Whisker Press. It’s in the final copyediting stages now and being read over by a dedicated reader in California. Successful novelist Marliss Melton, at www.MarlissMelton.com, has hired me to help develop and then copyedit her latest book, the first in her new counterterrorism series, Taskforce.
Looking forward to a great 2012.




