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An Editor of a Certain Age: Freelance Copyediting Careers for Older Women

An Editor of a Certain Age: Freelance Copyediting Careers for Older Women

by Sheryl Rapée-Adams | Jun 21, 2019 | Inspiration

I was the eleven-year-old miscreant with a purple Sharpie correcting restaurant menus, school textbooks, and the science fiction novels on my parents’ bookshelves. In the 1980s, my college English professor, author Evelyn Wilde Mayerson, told me I’d make a good...

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