Meet our to new editors: Chris Kraemer and Sheryl Lynn Gerety

Chris Kraemer
Chris Kraemer has one dragon story published, three romances, two suspense stories, a short comedy screenplay that was performed, recorded and sent to the troops in Iraq for 'entertainment'. She also has a "faerie" story included in the anthology being released by RoguePhoenixPress in February 2010 and hope to have the beginning of a dragon series, Book 1, Dragons Among Us, published in March of 2010.

Chris has presented classes on "making it through the publishing maze" for the Parks and Recreation department of Palmdale, CA. and has been involved with RWA since 2002.

Sheryl Lynn Gerety
Sheryl's education has included: Oregon public universities, General School at Columbia and degree at University of North Carolina in public policy analysis. She has taken South American literature courses, the use of novels as models for anthropological theories in theses and has been involved for many years in a book club. She has done extensive copy editing for Bruce Winterhalder (head of the anthropology department at UC Davis) and his Ph.d. candidates.

To characterize her editing goals: She looks for and encourages precise language, paragraph structure, consistent and inconspicuous punctuation while maintaining distinct character voices, and overall development of a theme or theory in the body of the work. Dealing with fiction, she looks for character profiles that are plausible given the fundamentals of human nature: looking for social groups, stable life partners, the spiritual; characters sacrificing to protect offspring if possible; characters struggling to balance personal ambitions with caring for family, friends, neighbors.