Know Your Editor

If you peruse this painfully simple website, you’ll see that I’ve been a working editor (and certainly not a web designer!) for a good many years.

I am one a few long, long-time For Dummies editors. These days, I work as a freelance writer and editor from my home in Connecticut. I write and edit book-length manuscripts, digital assets, and marketing materials for corporate publishers (like John Wiley & Sons) and independent clients.

I typically collaborate with a small project team, and the books I edit (and sometimes ghostwrite) span a wide range of nonfiction topics. I love this work because it’s impossible to run out of new things to learn.

📚 Want to develop a business title? Buying a Business For Dummies, by Eric Tyson and Jim Schell, was one of my most personally satisfying projects.

📚 Exploring a new tech topic? Emerging technology is my hobby interest! I’m currently learning about data analytics and visualization tools — more interesting than it sounds!

📚 Health, lifestyle, job seeking? Yes, yes, yes. (See my Portfolio page!)

I’m on a “forever mission” to help experts bring great ideas to interested readers everywhere. 

To read about the services I offer, please click the Services page. Other pages explain Fees and provide more detailed info about my background.

Send me a message

If you have a manuscript or an idea you want to get started on, send me an email (colleen@colleendiamond.me). Not sure? Send me an email anyway. If we’re not a match at this time, I usually can suggest next-steps or another freelancer who may be a better fit.

If you’re up for a belabored conversation, ask for my fly-on-the-wall thoughts on how a teeny computer book publisher defied all expectations — even my own! — in the Fabulous ’90s.

Here’s that email address again: 

colleen@colleendiamond.me