Buy Owner || Cleaner Living Services || Sea Turtle Story|| Sourcebooks ||Glancer Media

BUY OWNER

(http://www.buyowner.com), the nation’s leading for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) company

During her three years managing Buy Owner’s writing department, Shanna not only wrote copy, but also was in charge of editing all written materials that went through the company. In addition to residential ads and miscellaneous materials, she managed all content for company blogs: the Buy Owner Blog and FSBO Jane.

CLEANER LIVING SERVICES

(http://www.cleanerlivingservices.com/), the largest non-union commercial cleaning company in the Midwest

SEA TURTLE STORY

(http://www.seaturtlestory.com/), a story blog based on a children’s novel

Based on the children’s book, The Tale of Eartha the Sea Turtle, the Sea Turtle Story is a fictional story blog chronicling the journey of Eartha the sea turtle. Shanna edited posts as the author completed them, between the months of August and December 2009.

SOURCEBOOKS

(http://www.sourcebooks.com), one of the nation’s leading independent book publishers

During her three-month internship at Sourcebooks, Shannalee copyedited, fact-checked and proofread over 30 books according to Chicago Manual of Style guidelines. Titles ranged from self-help legal guides to comic books to fiction.

GLANCER MEDIA

(http://www.glancermagazine.com/), the preeminent community living magazine in Chicago’s suburbs

In the spring of 2007, Shanna edited the April edition of the Naperville Glancer after contacting the magazine’s publisher about some errors in the previous issue. She completed this project while working on her MA in Writing at DePaul University.