Technical Editor
Technical Documentation
Agile Sprint Planner User Manual - Ron Chaudri & Don McCarty
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Reviewed an early draft and provided format and layout suggestions, including images, screen captures, and call-out boxes.
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Provided copyediting, including grammar, sentence structure, and opportunities for clarification.
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Non-Fiction Editor
Non-Fiction
Porter: A Wolfdog and His People - Anne Eston
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Acted as Beta Reader, providing overall impressions and suggestions for improvement to capture the emotional angle.
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Produced back-cover blurb
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Fiction​
Short Works
Franny and the Prophesizing Chicken - Mary Darcy
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Provided overall assessment to prompt the author to reconsider the point of view, character development, and plot details.
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"Link" and "Resurrecting Home" - Lornormi O. Manuel
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Prepared line-by-line critique, as well as copyediting, to help frame work for optimal interpretation.
Long Works
Cheap Promises - Mara Miller
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Produced line-by-line edit to include consistency, profluence, and character analysis, which allowed the author to reconsider plot and point of view choices.
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The Price of Bread and Shoes - Lonormi O. Manuel
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Acted as Beta Reader, providing overall impressions and suggestions for improvement.​
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Provided copyediting, as applicable.
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For more detail about my professional background and to see the types of technical manuals I've developed in the corporate world, see my resume on LinkedIn
MY BIO
Meet Daniel J. Beliveau
I’m an American writer and the author of the forthcoming Steven Church cozy-like mystery series that begins with Murder at the Snuggle Inn. I began writing short fiction at age nine and drafted my first novel titled, Rapid Fire, by the age of fifteen.
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While a student at Rutgers University, I wrote a collage of short stories, a novella (Love Lights), and two plays (The Psychiatrist Is In! and Hot Coffee); but I never let go of that first novel. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English, the machine of Corporate America quickly swallowed me.
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Several years later, while re-writing Rapid Fire for the third time, I discovered most of my work had some element of mystery and gay main characters. Unfortunately, for the next decade or so my labor of love languished.
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My father, an avid science-fiction reader, passed in 2010. A year later, I crafted a short piece, M Theory, in his memory. I followed it with a longer piece, Exhausted Star.
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My unique blend of genre fiction with Male-on-Male Erotic Romance places gay men in lead roles as ordinary, sexual beings, freeing them from the “side-kicks” or “comic relief” stereotypes.
This makes me “Unconventional Dan”.
I completed my Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University in 2020.
My “day job” as a Technical/Proposal writer for an international consulting company pays the bills while I continue to revise my thesis novel.
I live in the Baltimore area with my husband and two dogs.