Recommendations
For Illustrations:
"We just gave Heather's calligraphy of wedding vows to my daughter and her wife yesterday, and they absolutely loved it! They were very touched and also struck by how beautiful it is. Heather did a gorgeous job!"
—C.M.
Marlboro, Vermont
“Heather did a great job of graphics for my book How Far Have You Traveled? She was fast, efficient, creative without wasting time, and produced just what was needed with minimal communications. She understood the objectives and matched her talents to my request. Excellent in all ways.”
author, The Dance Between Hope and Fear
Quaker Healer, Massage Therapist, teacher, author
Putney, Vermont
For Copy Editing:
"I highly recommend Heather as a copy editor. Not only is her work fast and accurate but she is truly one of the most unflappable partners I have had the pleasure of working with. She is unfazed by changes and works to keep the process on track. "
author, Reimagining Our Tomorrows
writer, futurist, former Walt Disney Imagineer
Winter Springs, Florida
“When Heather copy edited and fact-checked articles I was writing for national science magazines, she was the perfect combination of sensitivity, tact, delicacy, and gravitas.”
author, Nietzsche’s Angel Food Cake,
science journalist and humorist,
Putney, Vermont
“Heather brings a compellingly important combination of sensibilities to her editing work. She is extraordinarily precise about grammar, and she is tenacious about capturing the nuances of what you want to communicate. Working with her is truly a fine experience.”
—L. Lyedecker “Lyedie” Geer, MS IMC
Integral Master Coach™ and Counsel,
Walpole, New Hampshire
“Heather has wisely helped us edit publications to make them more coherent and succinct and asked us wonderful clarifying questions to ensure that we are communicating what we intend. We continue to work with Heather for her professionalism, timeliness, and ability to help us bring our major publications to the next level.”
Director of Professional Development,
Co-Chair of the US Partnership for Education
for Sustainable Development,
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vermont
“Heather does a superb job. Her suggestions for rewriting are always excellent—she found a number of places where I could simplify or get rid of unnecessary adjectives. I am grateful to her for helping me write something unique.”
—Sidney Spies
author, Vacant Eyes
and Surviving Old Age
Piedmont, California
"Heather's ability to ask authors just the right questions to flesh out or clarify an idea and make their article come alive is her greatest skill."
—Susan Hathaway
Operations Manager,
Synergy Learning International, Inc.
publishers of Connect magazine
Brattleboro, Vermont
On Writing:
“Heather looks at her subject (scene or character) in a direct, clear-eyed way, and the words come as if from an underground stream—vivid, original words—that make you see exactly what she is looking at. You find yourself in the scene, feeling what the character is feeling. Heather is not a lazy writer. She does not resort to somebody else's way of saying a thing. Her writing has freshness and authenticity. It's like a sumptuous meal you want to sit down and linger over.”
author, When Fear Falls Away,
The Freedom of Being,
and Opening the Door;
leader of writer's workshops,
Westminster West, Vermont