About me
I was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, in 1970. I lived there until 1995. Since then I have lived in Ohio (twice!), Arizona, South Carolina, and Nebraska. I currently reside in Texas.
My travels have taken me to Peru, Japan, Canada, Mexico,
England, Italy, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica, as well as across much of the continental United States of America. I am not a fugitive on the run from the law, but I do love a good road trip.
My other passions include cooking, wandering the aisles of international grocery stores, dining with friends, listening to NPR, hiking, birding, napping, reading, playing board games, earning blood donor t-shirts, and just plain being myself.
My travels have taken me to Peru, Japan, Canada, Mexico,
England, Italy, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica, as well as across much of the continental United States of America. I am not a fugitive on the run from the law, but I do love a good road trip.
My other passions include cooking, wandering the aisles of international grocery stores, dining with friends, listening to NPR, hiking, birding, napping, reading, playing board games, earning blood donor t-shirts, and just plain being myself.
Employment and Education
If you take a look at my resume, you will see that I have never been afraid of hard work. I started my first job as a retail sales volunteer at the not-so tender age of 14. In the years since my job titles have included cashier, floor supervisor, dental assistant, offset printer's assistant, bartender, dental temp, poll worker, intern, research assistant, bank teller, member service representative, and dental school auditor/payment processor. I also carried a grenade launcher and served as a wire systems installer in the United States Army Reserve for six and a half years. My work and life experience served me well when, at the age of 32, I decided it was about time I got a college education. For the next few years I worked full time and attended community college part time while living in Tucson, Arizona. In 2007 I received an associate degree in liberal arts, married my longtime beau, moved to South Carolina, and became a full-time student at Clemson University. There, I majored in English, with a concentration in writing and publication studies, and minored in business and technical writing. After earning my degree and graduating with honors in 2009, I finally became what my family and friends would say I have been all along: an editor.
If you take a look at my resume, you will see that I have never been afraid of hard work. I started my first job as a retail sales volunteer at the not-so tender age of 14. In the years since my job titles have included cashier, floor supervisor, dental assistant, offset printer's assistant, bartender, dental temp, poll worker, intern, research assistant, bank teller, member service representative, and dental school auditor/payment processor. I also carried a grenade launcher and served as a wire systems installer in the United States Army Reserve for six and a half years. My work and life experience served me well when, at the age of 32, I decided it was about time I got a college education. For the next few years I worked full time and attended community college part time while living in Tucson, Arizona. In 2007 I received an associate degree in liberal arts, married my longtime beau, moved to South Carolina, and became a full-time student at Clemson University. There, I majored in English, with a concentration in writing and publication studies, and minored in business and technical writing. After earning my degree and graduating with honors in 2009, I finally became what my family and friends would say I have been all along: an editor.
My editorial philosophy
One might ask why I wanted to become an editor. After all, we all make mistakes. Typos happen. Spell check lets you spell the wrong word right. Therefore, who am I to judge? So I don't. Instead of judging, and instead of writing, I edit. My joy lies in revising and, along the way, making authors look good.
In matters of mechanical style, you might call me a stickler; I call myself detail oriented. In matters of grammar, I strive to be descriptive rather than prescriptive. For example, I would sooner split the infinitive than permit Captain Jean-Luc Picard to go boldly where no one has gone before. If I had my way with the written word, I would right the wrong, disambiguate the ambiguous, and elevate the inelegant.
I freelanced as an academic editor from 2010 to 2020. My job as an academic editor was to help make writing clear, correct, and accessible. This website memorializes my efforts and those of my clients, to whom I will always be grateful. They gave me the opportunity to live my dreams by editing theirs.
One might ask why I wanted to become an editor. After all, we all make mistakes. Typos happen. Spell check lets you spell the wrong word right. Therefore, who am I to judge? So I don't. Instead of judging, and instead of writing, I edit. My joy lies in revising and, along the way, making authors look good.
In matters of mechanical style, you might call me a stickler; I call myself detail oriented. In matters of grammar, I strive to be descriptive rather than prescriptive. For example, I would sooner split the infinitive than permit Captain Jean-Luc Picard to go boldly where no one has gone before. If I had my way with the written word, I would right the wrong, disambiguate the ambiguous, and elevate the inelegant.
I freelanced as an academic editor from 2010 to 2020. My job as an academic editor was to help make writing clear, correct, and accessible. This website memorializes my efforts and those of my clients, to whom I will always be grateful. They gave me the opportunity to live my dreams by editing theirs.
© 2010–2020 Camille Nelson