Trish Lockard, editor, book coach, writer, proofreader, and owner of Strike The Write Tone.
Welcome. I'm Trish Lockard. As Strike The Write Tone, I offer a full range of editorial services for nonfiction, creative nonfiction, and self-help texts. Visit my SERVICES page for details.
I am a freelance nonfiction editor for the Greenleaf Book Group of Austin, Texas.
I have been a freelance editor, writing coach, and ghostwriter for memoir-publisher The Cheerful Word, in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
I am a member of:
Editorial Freelancers Association
National Association of Independent Writers and Editors
In my personal life, I am a long-time member of and volunteer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). I have served as a chapter president and am a certified classroom instructor for the NAMI program Family-to-Family. Mental health is health!
Long ago and far away. . . after receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida in Tampa, I began a career as a technical writer of end-user software instruction manuals for telecommunications, insurance, cartography, and freight logistics companies, as well as corporate policy and procedure documentation and employee benefits handbooks.
