Richard Adin
Richard Adin has a BA and a JD degree. He practiced law for 7 years before joining Matthew Bender as an Executive Editor in 1984. In 1984, Richard started Freelance Editorial Services as a part-time business to provide copy editing and desktop publishing services to publishers. In 1989, he joined Prentice Hall as Managing Editor where he was involved in electronic and desktop publishing and, in 1991, Richard left Prentice Hall to devote full-time to Freelance Editorial Services.

Carolyn Edlund
Carolyn Edlund has a BS degree. She has been with Freelance Editorial Services since 1992. Although she began as a proofreader with us, Carolyn is now responsible for Freelance Editorial Services' illustration and desktop publishing services. Carolyn is an accomplished artist (water color, oil, and graphite) whose works are in collections around the world. Before joining Freelance Editorial Services, Carolyn lived and worked in England where she did cover design and illustration. On her return to the United States, Carolyn worked for graphic arts studios as an artist and designer and did freelance book illustration.

Terese Platten
Terese Platten holds a BA degree in English literature, graduating cum laude with special honors in English. She has 4 years experience in book publishing with special skills in print production and text design. Working since 1994 as a freelancer, Terese has done everything from text design to writing press releases. In recent years, Terese focused on proofreading and copyediting medical books for professionals and college textbooks.

Deborah Ring
Deborah Ring holds a BA and an MA in English. She has been a freelance copyeditor since 1996, working primarily on academic, professional, and reference works in the humanities and social sciences. Her areas of expertise include economics and finance, business and management, public administration/public policy, urban studies, political science, education, psychology, and literature and drama. Before becoming a full-time freelance editor, she worked for six years as an editor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and spent four years on staff at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland. She has also taught introductory composition at Case Western Reserve University, where she earned her graduate degree.

Heather Moore Niver
Heather Moore Niver has a BA and an MFA in English. She began freelance editing, writing, and proofreading in 1996 for a nonprofit Caribbean publisher, working on manuscripts ranging from plays and short fiction to memoirs and political texts. Heather expanded her horizons as proofreader and then editor for a financial and healthcare publisher. She honed her skills on financial, business, and healthcare newsletters, as well as tax journals and investment, real estate, and marketing materials. Since joining the staff of Freelance Editorial Services, Heather has been copyediting and proofreading books in the education, business, medical, humanities, and social sciences fields, developing a thorough knowledge of the AMA and APA.

Betty Litt
Betty Litt has a BA degree, with a major in biology and a minor in Greek and Roman Classics. For several years, she worked as a research assistant, participating in laboratory investigations on retinal electrophysiology. Betty began her publishing career as a copy- and production editor of peer-reviewed medical journals. Since 1998, she has worked as a copyeditor of textbooks, focusing on the areas of medicine, the humanities, social science, and business.

Susan Riter
Susan Riter has an MD degree and practiced clinical medicine for 25 years, specializing in sleep medicine and in developmental pediatrics. Like most editors, she has had a lifelong fascination with words, and her interest in the use of language led her to change her career to full-time medical editing. She studied editing at the University of Chicago, and has worked as an editor of medical books and journals since 2006.

Ratul Hazarika
Ratul Hazarika has a bachelor of engineering (mechanical) degree, but after a short stint as an engineer, his love for reading drew him toward the profession of copyediting and proofreading. He began copyediting in 2000 for a firm providing editorial services to a range of clients dealing with journals and books on diverse subjects. Since 2000, he has copyedited manuscripts in the fields of healthcare management, nursing, psychology, social sciences, education, chemistry, and medicine, as well as history, engineering, and math. Working on manuscripts in a variety of subjects has helped him acquire extensive knowledge of the APA, AMA, and the CMOS style guides.