Mary L Holden

Mary L. Holden has some favorite words: Letter, word, sentence, paragraph, reading, writing. These nouns and gerund forms of verbs represent her life's work, play and passion. Mary's goal as an editor is to uphold a writer's voice on the page and get them to see their manuscript in its best light. Mary offers developmental editing, line and content editing, ghostwriting and proofreading. As a self-employed freelance editor and writer, she's on the editorial staff of the MiniBuk company, and is...See more

Mary L. Holden has some favorite words: Letter, word, sentence, paragraph, reading, writing. These nouns and gerund forms of verbs represent her life's work, play and passion. Mary's goal as an editor is to uphold a writer's voice on the page and get them to see their manuscript in its best light. Mary offers developmental editing, line and content editing, ghostwriting and proofreading. As a self-employed freelance editor and writer, she's on the editorial staff of the MiniBuk company, and is a co-founder and partner of new72media in Oregon as well as Drafting Your Future in Arizona. She believes in supporting her community through volunteer work and is a member of Local First Arizona. Every year, Mary takes on certain editing projects pro bono. Several of her clients have learned English as their second language, and it has been her honor to assist them as they've developed and published their written work. See less