Lisa L. Owens runs Owens Editorial Ink from her home near Seattle. She opened the business in 2002 after 12+ years of working in the publishing industry as an in-house editor and freelance writer-editor.
Lisa works for publishers and other businesses as a writer, editor, and editorial consultant. She writes a wide variety of materials, including children's books, short stories, curriculum materials, magazine articles, and book reviews. She edits books and other works for all age levels and in many genres, including historical fiction, reference, biography, business, home improvement, and cooking.
Additionally, Lisa teaches adult ed classes in writing and editing, conducts author visits to schools, and sits on the board of the Editorial Freelancers Association as chair of its
education program.
Prior to launching Owens Editorial Ink, Lisa spent more than a decade learning the publishing industry from the ground up. Early in her career, she did promotions work as an intern for the literary journal
The Iowa Review before working as a freelance reporter for two midwestern arts-and-entertainment weeklies.
In 1993, she joined K–12 curriculum and book publisher
Perfection Learning Corporation (PLC) as proofreading coordinator/
copy editor. She was responsible for setting house style, supervising a team of 20 freelance proofreaders, and overseeing the copyediting and proofreading of thousands of annual publications. By 1995, Lisa had advanced to the position of editor at PLC—in that role, she managed the development of a popular line of books for middle-grade readers, managed the editorial process for several additional product lines, acquired manuscripts, worked with authors and illustrators, and wrote literature-based curriculum materials.
Lisa worked for the Seattle-based international nonprofit Committee for Children (CFC) from 1998 to 2002. As senior editor, she supervised the editorial staff, managed publishing timelines, and held final responsibility for the editorial quality of the organization's award-winning social and emotional curricula. She also ran CFC's editorial board, conducted editorial workshops, wrote for the organization's journal, and served as communications liaison among the program development, research, design/marketing, and training departments.
For additional details about Lisa's extensive editorial experience, please see the pdfs of her résumé and lists of selected publication credits below. (Note that the credits lists are not comprehensive but are representative of the hundreds of manuscripts Lisa has written, developed, edited, and copyedited over the years.)
Résumé (76 KB)
To visit Lisa's author site, click
here.
If you would like to discuss a writing, editing, or consulting project, send an
email—Lisa will get back to you as soon as possible.
Authors Guild
Editorial Freelancers Association
National Association of Women Writers
Pacific Northwest Writers Association
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Advanced Practical Thinking Training Inc.
American Media Incorporated
Baseline Development Group
Better Homes and Gardens Books
Bruegger's Bagel Bakery
CityView
Committee for Children
Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
Editorial Freelancers Association
Educate Products
Gale
Harcourt Achieve
ICON: Smart News and Entertainment
Iowa Department of Corrections
International Reading Association
Heinemann Library
Martingale & Company
Meredith Books
Middle-Level Learner
Next Press
Perfection Learning
Playzak.com
Prevention Update
Rainbow Cleaners
Red Line Editorial
Rigby
Rosen Publishing Group
Rourke Publishing
Schoolhouse Network
Scott Foresman
Steck-Vaughn
Stone Arch Books
The Writer
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