Kathy Murdock

Writing & Editing All the Words

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About Me

Hello! I’m Kathy. Welcome to my online space.

I started writing when I was five, penning stories about UFOs and Ryan, the boy in kindergarten who tormented me and who, in most of the books, wound up in outer space by the ending. I sold the stories for a quarter a piece in our small West Virginia town.

When I was eight, I got a typewriter for Christmas, and I wrote my first novel. It was a huge bestseller, followed by a joke book I cowrote with an elementary school friend. In college, I spent two years majoring in journalism before switching to special education. For the past twenty years, I have worked in writing and education – sometimes simultaneously.

When I’m not writing, I enjoy long distance running, paddle boarding around Florida, traveling, and spending time with my family.

Publications and Writing/Editing Projects: Stroll (magazine, Content Creator); On Following the Dots, client Delshan Baker (Book Editor); Lunchbox Tutors (curriculum and content developer); AllBusiness (columnist); Buy Owner (sales copy); Stanek Windows (copywriter/sales); EveryDay Family (columnist/blogger)

Skills: Office, Teams, SEO, Chicago Manual of Style, AP

Learning and Development: Created training for teachers and parents using Storyline 360; developed portfolio project for boutique using Articulate 360, Audacity, free use audio, Canva, Power Point; Created video for special educators using Vyond, Audacity

Skills: Articulate, Audacity, Power Point, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite

Recommendations

"Working with Kathy was a really exceptional experience. She was able to maintain my voice in the narrative but also provide key grammatical and content edits, and to provide guidance on what could be added in order to make the narrative stronger. The work was in two genres, one memoir and one self-help / business and she worked well with each. She was also very supportive and encouraging, worked super super fast--which was amazing given that it was also high-quality work, and always hit the timelines and deadlines. Highly recommended if you're looking for an editor that is going to focus on making your work better."

"Kathy did an edit of a couple of chapters of a self-help / memoir I'm working on and was awesome. The edit was thorough, made my work more clear, and flow better. She definitely elevated the quality of the narrative . . ."

"Kathy is excellent to work with and has provided quality content for our blog."

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