Jacob Salzer Editor at Mayfly Editing

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Skills​​

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• Copy editing

• Line editing

• Document formatting

• Microsoft Word

• Resume editing & formatting

• Cover Letter editing & formatting

• Self-publishing books on Lulu.com 

• Excellent customer service 

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Experience

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Editor of My Sister Meda: A Memoir of Old Singapore by Diana Saltoon (January 2023)

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• Provided copy editing, line editing & proofreading

• Provided Book Formatting (including photographs)

• Provided Cover creation & design

• 66,670 words, 338 pages with Digest dimensions (5.5 x 8.5 in / 140 x 216 mm)

• Now available on Lulu.com for $22 U.S. dollars

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Editor of Myths of the Archetypes: An Intuitive Tarot Guide by Carolyn Winkler (October 2022)

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• Provided copy editing, line editing & proofreading

• Provided book layout & design (including colored photographs)

• Provided cover design

• 10,053 words, 86 pages with Crown Quarto dimensions (7.44 x 9.68 in / 189 x 246 mm) 

• Now Available on Lulu.com for $20 U.S. dollars

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Editor of Desert Rain, an international Haiku Nook Anthology dedicated to the late haiku poet Martha Magenta (1949-2020) and the 600+ million people who don't have access to clean water

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• Edited and formatted the anthology

• Self-published through Lulu.com

• 12,611 words

• Includes 500 poems from 23 poets in 8 countries

• Created an anthology website: https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/desertrain

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Editor of Masayume: A Dream Comes True by Carolyn Winkler (December 2020)

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• Provided copy editing, line editing and document formatting

• Provided cover design

• Provided photo layout and captions

• 16,600 words

• Available on Lulu.com for $25 US dollars

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Editor of Half A Rainbow, an international Haiku Nook Anthology dedicated to Rachel Sutcliffe (1977-2019) and Haiku Nook G+ (2019-2020)

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• Edited and formatted the anthology

• Self-published through Lulu.com

• 8,677 words

• Includes 165 haiku, 58 tanka, and 17 haibun from 22 poets around the world

• Created an anthology website: https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/halfarainbowhaiku

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Editor of New Bridges, the Portland Haiku Group Anthology dedicated to Johnny Baranski (1948-2018) (2018) 

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• Edited and formatted the anthology

• Self-published through CreateSpace 

• 7,476 words

• Includes 192 haiku and 79 tanka by 17 poets

• Created The Portland Haiku Group website: https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/portlandhaikugroup/portland-haiku-anthology

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Editor of Yanty's Butterfly, an international Haiku Nook Anthology dedicated to Yanty Tjiam (1981-2015) (2015-2016)

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• Edited and formatted the anthology

• Self-published through Lulu.com

• 16,647 words

• Includes over 600 haiku, tanka, and haibun from 23 poets around the world

• Created the anthology website: https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/yantysbutterfly

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Author of 10 collections of poetry and 3 collaborative poetry books:

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• Metal & Rain: Selected Tanka (Lulu, 2023)

• Unplugged— Haiku & Tanka (Lulu, 2022)

• Returning: Tanka Sequences (with Michelle Hyatt) (Lulu, 2022)

• Mare Liberum: Haiku & Tanka (Lulu, 2020)

• Echoes: A Collection of Linked-Verse Poetry (with Michelle Hyatt) (Lulu, 2020)

• The Sound of Rain (haiku)

• Birds With No Names (haiku)

• Fog Between Mountains (one-line haiku) 

• A Steady Beam of Light (one-line haiku)

• Distant Sirens (tanka)

• Origins (haibun)

• How Many Become One (haiku with Nicholas Klacsanzky)

• The Last Days of Winter (poetry)

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Please see my haiku website for details: https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/mareliberumhaiku

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Education

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TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certificate (March 2020)

International Open Academy

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Bachelor of Arts, Humanities (Sept. 2010)

The Evergreen State College