These are some of the more recent projects I’ve worked on, in no particular order.
Osage Language and Lifeways
Cameron Pratt, Stephanie Rapp, Marcia Haag, and Dylan Herrick
University of Oklahoma Press, 2025
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Formatting in preparation for design • Special formatting and care for Osage language text
What is the Mishnah?: The State of the Question
Edited by Shane J. D. Cohen
Harvard University Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine
Loretta Barrett Oden with Beth Dooley University of Oklahoma Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Indexing for a cookbook
The Bluejacket’s Manual, United States Navy, 26th Edition
Thomas J. Cutler, Mark T. Hacala, and Paul Kingsbury
Naval Institute Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision
Edited by Laura E. Pérez and Ann Marie Leimer
Duke University Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Code of Honor: A Novel of RADM Peter Wake, USN, in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War
Robert N. Macomber
Naval Institute Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Full Naval Honors: The Final Novel of Peter Wake and His Descendants (The Honor)
Robert N. Macomber
Naval Institute Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Proofreading
The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver
Jane Little Botkin
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Copyediting
The Shale Renaissance: How Fracking Has Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century
Jonathan M. Fisk, Soren Jordan, and A.J. Good
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Copyediting
Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western
Edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
University of Nebraska Press, 2025
MY ROLE: Copyediting
Between Soil and Society
Jonathan Coppess
University of Nebraska Press, 2024
MY ROLE: Copyediting
Traders, Agents, and Weavers: Developing the Northern Navajo Region
Robert S. McPherson
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Index creation
In the Midst of Radicalism: Mexican American Moderates during the Chicano Movement, 1960-1978
Guadalupe San Miguel Jr.
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Index creation
The Battle of Tarawa: Naval History Special Edition
Daniel Rogers
Naval Institute Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Aircraft Carrier Intrepid: Naval History Special Edition
Andrew Faltum
Naval Institute Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Marine Maxims: Turning Leadership Principles into Practice
Col. Thomas J. Gordon, USMC (Ret.)
Naval Institute Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster
R. Eli Paul
Bison Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Copyediting
One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
Ric Gillespie
Naval Institute Press, 2024
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing
Jonathan Alexander
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Copyediting
The Architectural History of Franklin County, North Carolina
Edited by J. Daniel Pezzoni
Franklin County Historic Preservation Commission, 2023
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Homeland: Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900
Aaron E. Sánchez
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Index creation
The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico
Janet Farrell Brodie
University of Nebraska Press, 2023
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Index creation
The Incorrigibles: Eugenics and Sterilization in the Kansas Industrial School for Girls
Ry Marcattilio-McCracken
University of Nebraska Press, 2023
MY ROLE: copyediting
Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish versus the West Coast Hotel Company
Helen J. Knowles
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Copyediting
A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn: U.S. Army Surgeon George E. Lord
Todd E. Harburn
University of Oklahoma Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Copyediting
The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions
Edited by Peter B. Villella and Pablo García Loaeza
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Index creation
Great Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century
Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera
Naval Institute Press, 2020
MY ROLE: Proofreading for graphic novel
Punk’s Wing: A Novel
Ward Carroll
Naval Institute Press
2nd edition, 2021
MY ROLE: Proofreading
The Vanguard: Central European Émigrés and American Modern Design, 1910–1940
Jewel Stern and Christopher Long
Yale University Press, 2025
MY ROLE: Proofreading
So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine
Maksim Goldenshteyn
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Index creation
Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places
Gerald F. Reid
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Index creation
Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat
Jeffrey R. Cares and Anthony Cowden; Foreword by ADM Scott Swift, USN (RET.)
Naval Institute Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Proofreading
The Craft of Wargaming: A Detailed Planning Guide for Defense Planners and Analysts
COL. Jeff Appleget, USA, (RET.), COL. Robert Burks, USA (RET.), and Fred Cameron
Naval Institute Press, 2020
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Plato’s Philebus: A Commentary
George H. Rudebusch
University of Oklahoma Press, 2023
MY ROLES: Created two indexes: a general index and an index of passages (index locorum)
Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football
John Scott
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Index creation
Archaeology in a Living Landscape: Envisioning Nonhuman Persons in the Indigenous Americas
Edited by Brent K. S. Woodfill and Lucia R. Henderson
University Press of Florida, 2024
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Index creation
Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four
Edited by Adam Duncan Harris
National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2023
MY ROLE: Index creation for art exhibition catalog
Transatlantic Radio Dramas: Antonio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service During World War II
Daniel Mandur Thomaz
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Copyediting
In Pursuit of Utopia: Los Angeles in the Great Depression
Errol Wayne Stevens
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Index creation
Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific
Trent Hone
Naval Institute Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization
Edited by Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill, and Andrew Needham, eds.
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Index creation
The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology
Marco Tamborini
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Copyediting
U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century
Brent Droste Sadler
Naval Institute Press, 2023
MY ROLE: Proofreading
AI at War: How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Are Changing Naval Warfare
Sam J. Tangredi and George Galdorisi, eds.
Naval Institute Press, 2021
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Joe De Yong: A Life in the West
William Reynolds
Alamar Media, published 2018, indexed 2021
MY ROLE: Index creation
The author asked me to create an index that he could print and place into an already-published book or offer for download. I did so, taking care to match the design of the book and adding proper page numbering so it would fit seamlessly.
Edward Borein: Etched by the West
B. Byron Price
Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 2021
MY ROLES: • Index creation • Indexing of all art found in book • Proofreading (collaborated with another proofreader)
Fighting in Canyon Country: Native American Conflict, 500 AD to the 1920s
Robert S. McPherson
Independently published, 2nd edition, 2021
MY ROLES: • Design of book interior • Photo editing for print
I was asked to recreate the interior of a previously published book that was no longer available due to a defunct press. I did not edit text or cover but just redesigned the interior.
At the Dawn of Airpower: The U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps’ Approach to the Airplane, 1907–1917
Laurence M. Burke II
Naval Institute Press, 2022
MY ROLE: Proofreading
Full production: copyediting, indexing, and design
Power, Prayers, and Protection: A Cultural History of the Utah San Juan River Navajos
Robert S. McPherson
Independently published, 2023
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Special formatting and care for Navajo language text • Index creation • Design and layout of book interior • Book cover design • Ebook formatting and creation • Photo editing and optimization • Amazon publication management
Scouting for the Bluecoats: Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911
Robert S. McPherson
Independently published, distributed by University Press of Colorado, 2022
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Index creation • Design and layout of book interior • Ebook formatting and creation • Photo editing and optimization • Book cover design • Amazon publication management
Stories from the Land: A Navajo Reader about Monument Valley
Robert S. McPherson
Independently published, distributed by University Press of Colorado, 2021
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Special formatting and care for Navajo language text • Index creation • Photo editing and optimization for print and ebook • Design and layout of book interior • Ebook formatting and creation • Book cover redesign in 2022 for wider distribution (original covers were Amazon-only), keeping feel of original design
Traditional Navajo Teachings: The Earth Surface People (vol. 3)
Robert S. McPherson and Perry J. Robinson
Independently published, distributed by University Press of Colorado, 2020
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Formatting • Special formatting and care for Navajo language text • Index creation • Photo editing for print • Took over interior design mid-project by request and followed a requirement of working only in Microsoft Word with Times New Roman • Book cover redesign in 2022, keeping feel of original design
The Dugout Ranch: A Land Use Perspective, 1875–1965
Lee Bennett
Independently published, 2023
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Index creation • Design and layout of book interior • Book cover design • Photo editing and optimization for print and ebook • Ebook formatting and creation • Amazon publication management
Related: A Selective History of the Thayer Family
Robert S. McPherson
Independently published, 2024
Privately printed with Lulu
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Design and layout of book interior • Book cover design • Photo editing and optimization for black-and-white printing • Research to find best printer for private printing (not for public sale) • Management of upload and printing process
Traditional Navajo Teachings: Sacred Narratives and Ceremonies (vol. 1)
Robert S. McPherson and Perry J. Robinson
Independently published, distributed by University Press of Colorado, 2020
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Formatting • Special formatting and care for Navajo language text • Index creation • Photo editing for print • Took over interior design mid-project by request and followed a requirement of working only in Microsoft Word with Times New Roman • Book cover redesign in 2022, keeping feel of original design
Tracking the Navajo Scouts of 1873 to 1911: Biographies, Service History, and Photographs
V. Robert Westover
Independently published, 2024
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Index creation • Design and layout of book interior • Ebook formatting and creation • Photo editing, optimization, and restoration of 160+ photos for print and ebook • Book cover design • Amazon publication management
Navajo Women of Monument Valley: Preservers of the Past
Robert S. McPherson
Independently published, distributed by University Press of Colorado, 2021
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Special formatting and care for Navajo language text • Index creation • Design and layout of book interior • Photo editing and optimization for print and ebook • Ebook formatting and creation • Book cover redesign in 2022 for wider distribution (original covers were Amazon-only), keeping feel of original design
Traditional Navajo Teachings: The Natural World (vol. 2)
Robert S. McPherson and Perry J. Robinson
Independently published, distributed by University Press of Colorado, 2020
MY ROLES: • Copyediting • Formatting • Special formatting and care for Navajo language text • Index creation • Photo editing for print • Took over interior design mid-project by request and followed a requirement of working only in Microsoft Word with Times New Roman • Book cover redesign in 2022, keeping feel of original design