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Shelley Glasow Schadowsky
CEO, Publisher and Creative Director
Shelley is a publisher and author with a 20-year background in creative direction specializing in publication design and brand management. After breaking into eBook formatting in 2009, Shelley began focusing her expertise in assisting fellow authors in self-publishing until branching out into a mid-tier publisher where she could utilize her creative, technical and marketing skills and bring clients a full spectrum of publishing services. Goodlife guide continues to format hundreds of books globally by both well-known and novice authors each month. As a fellow author, Shelley understands the challenges and rewards that accompany all aspects of publication.

In addition to books, Shelley had established a successful career as a publications creative director at the helm of several upscale magazines, including Anthem Freedom Way, Desert Mountain Connection, Southwest Poker News and AZ Food & Life.

Shelley holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising and Graphic Design from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and undergraduate studies in Marketing from Colorado State University.

Shelley resides in Phoenix, Arizona, where she continues to write with the support of her family, fellow authors and National Writer’s Groups. A social advocate, Shelley regards her greatest accomplishment to be the adoption of her two daughters from Ukraine. Shelley continues life-long efforts sponsoring Ukrainian orphans, advocating for orphaned youth vocational programs and the ban against human trafficking in Eastern Europe and throughout the world as an active member of An Orphan Smiles, Orphans’ Hope Foundation, and Stop Child Trafficking Now (SCT Now).

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Katerina Schadowsky, Format Specialist
Katia is currently an excelling student focusing in Advanced English Literature and Mathematics. She is a continued member of the National Junior Honor Society. Katia’s love of books and talented computer skills play an integral role in her ability to format and proofread professionally as an extern. Katia resides with her family in Phoenix, Arizona, and maintains linguistics, historical and political interests in her native Ukraine.

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Aurelia Myers, Editor
Mrs. Myers retired from federal civil service after working 26 years as an Administrative Assistant.  She proofread, reviewed, and edited documents in draft form converting to final copy to include office correspondence, technical documents (manuals, statements of work, contract technical exhibits, budget forms, and Army regulations), briefing documents, etc.  Aurelia is proficient in use of all forms of MS software to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access.

Aurelia offers publications experience as a Proofreader with the ­Rim Country Gazette.  She Proofread, reviewed and edited newspaper articles for accurate use of grammar and content.  Corrected any grammatical, typographical, or compositional errors in draft form converting to final copy.

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Carol La Valley, Copy/Continuity Editor
Are you passionate about your story? Carol La Valley’s open mind, keen sense of humor, the variety of jobs in her resume and honed English skills can help refine and balance your tale.

Sitting beside her grandfather, listening to his deep bass voice read poems such as “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” and stories such as The Little Prince, is one of La Valley’s earliest memories. As a young teenager, she often sat by his side at meetings of the Tempe Poetry Society, and he encouraged her to write, although he disdained her early attempts at “mush and slush and stuff.”

Two and a half decades saw her through a stint as a Gal Friday for lawyers, a massage therapist, a mother to her daughter and a writer of speculative fiction.

In 2004, La Valley made a 180-degree career change and became the Payson Roundup Newspaper’s features reporter and a few years later, co-editor of The Rim Review, an arts and entertainment weekly.  After a brief stint as editor of the Rim Country Gazette she decided becoming a freelance writer and editor was a better fit for her lifestyle. For the past three years she has written and edited memoirs for clients to pass onto future generations, and ghost-written blogs. She has written non-profit grants that have funded, her articles have been published in regional magazines, and her science fiction short story “The Bone Flute Maker” was published in an e-book anthology Vampires, Ghosts and Zombies, Oh My! (and Other Creatures of the Night).

Her awards include:

• Outstanding Writing Awards from the Arizona Newspaper Association in 2009 and 2007
• Second Place, Short Story, 2009 National Federation of Press Women for “Silent Creek”
• First Place, Columns – General, 2009 Arizona Press Women for “Popa watch me fly”
• Second Place, Publications Regularly edited by entrant, 2009 Arizona Press Women for Rim Country Gazette
• Advanced Leader and Advance Communicator Bronze  ~ Toastmasters International
• Governor’s Housing Hero Award, PRN editorial staff award, 2006

She is a member of the American Copy Editors Society, Toastmasters and a Purple Ribbon Council volunteer. Science fiction and fantasy engage the wee hours of her night.

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Carole Emma Mathewson, Editor
Over a period of years, Carole Emma Mathewson has edited numerous manuscripts for writers, in a variety of genres.  Her background is that of a secretary, both executive and legal, and she devoted ten years to newspaper work, as a news reporter, feature writer and copy editor.  Her guidebook continues to be “The Associated Press Stylebook.”

Several of Mathewson’s short stories have been published in anthologies.  She is the writer of a one-woman, one-act play, “The Hostess of Providence,” concerning life in early Providence, Rhode Island.  Having taken the play on stage, she performed the solo part.  The work is currently being prepared for publication as an e-book.

She recently completed a Civil War novel, “Forward into Battle: The Story of a Civil War Surgeon and his Nurse,” concerning probable experiences had by her great-grandparents—he, a Union surgeon; and she, an army nurse.  The 82,000-word manuscript, which required extensive research of the battles, campaigns and hospitals where the couple served, is in the hands of a literary agent.

Mathewson is well underway in the writing of a second novel, “Rimview, Arizona.”  The protagonist, a woman, is a newspaper reporter, and the story concerns life in a rural Arizona mountain town.

She is working on a third novel, as yet untitled, concerning World War II on the home front.  The setting is a California walnut ranch, and the story concerns the effect of the war on a family.

She continues work on her rather lengthy memoir and is involved in writing an extensive history of her forebears, including lineages.  On many lines, the work extends to the 1600s; with some lines extending beyond that period of time.

A native of Visalia, California, Mathewson had a dual college major of English and Early Childhood Education, and has taught in preschools.  She has resided in Payson, Arizona since 1992.