ABOUT/PORTFOLIO
Welcome! Messenger Boy Media houses my blog, résumé, and few samples of my work as copy editor, Web content assistant, and writer. Send me an e-mail for questions about my services and for project estimates.
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Cat Perry | Messenger Boy Media
Copy Editor | Editor | Web Content Editor
Writer | SEO
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Copy Editor, New York, Recent projects
- Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s Whole Living magazine
- 125 Gluten-Free Vegetarian Recipes (Avery)
- Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
- Living Loaded, by Dan Dunn (Crown Publishing)
- Are All Guys Assholes?, by Amber Madison (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin)
- Internet Is a Playground, The, by David Thorne (Tarcher/Penguin)
- Do-It-Yourself Therapy: Head Games for a Rainy Day (Crown Publishing)
- Essence of Happiness, The, by H.H. Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, M.D. (Riverhead)
- Laptop and Woman’s World magazines
- Livestrong.com and Trails.com
Men’s Fitness | Flex | Muscle & Fitness | M&F Hers magazines, New York, 7/11–Present — Senior Copy Editor & Writer for all four American Media enthusiast titles
Dealnews.com, New York, 12/09–5/10, then freelance through 10/11 — Associate Web Editor handling daily HTML formatting, uploading, and copyediting of text, images, and video, using proprietary CMS and Photoshop
Penguin Group (US), New York, 8/09–7/10 — Web Associate for Penguin Online. Managed Web marketing campaigns/contests
on Twitter—adding 61,000 followers in 11 months—promoted YouTube and other new media content on Facebook and Twitter; updated
high-traffic website using HTML and XML; helped create Web broadcasts using Final Cut Pro; and copyedited US.PenguinGroup.com
Women’s Health magazine, New York, 8/07–4/09 — Copy Editor and Web Content Coordinator for popular health/fitness mag and website; duties included advanced copy fitting in InDesign, Web production assistance, Web content migration, and SEO
Plenty magazine, New York, 10/07–1/09 — Copy Editor for national environmental magazine
Macy’s Corporate Marketing, New York, 11/06–4/07 — Copy Editor and Copy Writer for Macy’s spring and fall ’07 advertising campaigns. Helped write copy for national ads in Glamour and NYT
Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, New York, 5/06 — Production editor and copy editor for the annual National Design Journal
Not For Tourists Guidebooks, New York, 10/04–10/05 — Sales & Marketing Coordinator. Duties included mailings, sales calls, RFP preparation, and assisting marketing director; also helped copyedit NFT Guide to Atlanta and NFT Guide to Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION & ASSOCIATIONS
Oberlin College, Class of 2002, B.A. Environmental Science & Policy
Member of the AvantGuild Media Association
Apprenticeship with Roarmeow Web Design
SPECIALTIES
Chicago Manual of Style, AP Stylebook, and Words Into Type
MS Word, FrontPage, and Excel (incl. macros); A/V editing in Garageband and Final Cut Pro
Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, InCopy, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop) and QuarkXpress
Intermediate HTML/XML/CSS scripting; proficiency w/proprietary CMSs, Drupal, Vingnette, Joomla, Typepad, and WordPress; and SEO
Photo Credit: Jupiterimages/BananaStock/Getty Images