About T.S. Steve Minton & Apex Nexus Proofreading & Editing

About Steve Minton, "Literary/Editorial Maven"

& Owner, Apex Nexus Proofreading & Editing

• Member, ACES: The Society For Editing & Editorial Freelancers Association

• Working on proofreading certification at Proofed.com & Knowadays for their Proofreader & Editor course; Poynter ACES Certificate in English

• Skills & Experience include: Print, Social Media, Blogs, AI Writing Tools, Google Cloud Skills Boost Badge: Introduction to Generative AI, Blogger & Author at SteveMinton.Substack.com, including the ongoing serialized online illustrated novel MINTONVERSE: INTERCONNECTED NARRATIVES

• Graduate of Boston University College of Arts & Sciences: BA degree in English, Magna Cum Laude With Distinction, Lifetime member of Golden Key International Honor Society

• Editorial and proofreading experience includes writing for business newsletters (Dartnell's Cambridge Associates, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990 - 1991), local free entertainment papers (Entertainment Magazine & The Echo Recycler, Tucson, Arizona, 1993 to 1995), sports related (The Fantasy League Report print edition, mid-90s, Tucson), providing a web and YouTube presence in association with the late broadcaster & paranormalist researcher Ted Loman's community access TV programs on Access Tucson: UFOAZ and Off the Record (UFOs & unexplained, circa 1998 - 2007), copywriting and proofreading for motivational coach & entrepreneur Jeff Raim, providing editorial and internet marketing consulting services to author/cartoonist/graphic designer Mark Zepezauer and running Interfusion Editing Services in Tucson for several years circa 2010 - 2013 (which included social media and digital "guerilla marketing" strategies, in industries and genres ranging from commercial debt collections to Buddhist-inspired free verse poetry.) 

•  I am the founder of the literary & arts print publications Hieroglyph Gumbo and Whoof Session (both of them anthologies of the work mainly by other gifted writers, artists, thinkers and creative spirits), and their online counterparts: Eleusinian Visions (winner of the Ernest Slyman Best Webzine Award, 1998), TSM Visions and the associated archive at  https://eleusinian-visions.blogspot.com/2011/02/at-last-after-3-decades-fabled-lost.html

"Steve was the best student in my Advanced Writing class at Marist College (fall 1987), in a class of superior students. Steve not only has talent and intelligence; he possesses dedication and commitment as well." 

• Professor Tom Goldpaugh, PhD., Associate Professor of English, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York