I'm the author of the "Rift" epic fantasy series and am also a freelance medical editor. People usually get a vague, puzzled look in their eyes when I tell them what I do for a living, so for those who really, really want to know, this is it in a nutshell: I edit articles written by physicians for medical journals.
I graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor of science degree and, being a lover of language and not laboratories, promptly transitioned from lab wretch to editor. In 2001 I took a medical editing course taught by the Journal of the American Medic more...