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The Holder’s Dominion

February 1, 2023

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After her father’s death on a mountain rescue mission, Kaylie Ames watched her family shatter. In The Holder’s Dominion, she fled Tacoma for college in faraway Austin, figuring that even the worst campus drama would be a relief. But when her old friend Elliott turns up on his knees in the grocery store aisle, raving about something called a morphis, Kaylie feels compelled to enter Elliott’s unfamiliar world.

Guided by Elliott and his friends, Kaylie signs on to the massively popular online game Edannair. There she discovers a world of beautiful vistas and magical creatures, where people from all over the globe step into the roles of warriors on fantastical quests. But a real-world evil threatens the players: the mysterious Holder, leader of the elite team known as Sarkmarr, is coercing his followers into traumatic offline dares known as “morphis assignments.” To save her friends, Kaylie must infiltrate Sarkmarr and survive the Holder’s tests.

Will she find the courage there to hold her real-world family together?

April Michelle Davis spent several weeks proofreading this manuscript. This is usually performed on a manuscript that has already been through developmental or copyediting and has already been laid out by a designer into page proofs. It provides a last review of egregious errors, such as basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and inconsistencies, and any other errors that were inserted during the design process.

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Walter Meets Mack: A Minnesota Adventure

January 1, 2023

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From the early days of the Minnesota lumber industry comes Mike Stoesz’s Walter Meets Mack, a historically accurate young adult novel of growth and discovery. At a time of immigration and change, a young Finnish boy named Walter “Mack” Myllamaki will embrace his past while looking to the future. From the hustle-bustle city of Minneapolis to the wild country of Minnesota’s dense forests, Mack must keep his wits about him if he is to survive in a world where nothing–well, almost nothing–is as it seems.

April Michelle Davis was selected to proofread this manuscript in the weeks before printing. April Michelle has been a professional proofreader for over 20 years, and her experience has been proven invaluable in correcting egregious errors in grammar and spelling. As a proofreader, April Michelle aligns her goal with that of the author’s: to ensure a pleasurable experience for readers.

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Soda Jerk Wizard

December 1, 2022

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Soda Jerk Wizard – Copyedited

Prepare yourself for a hilarious, adventurous romp through the herky-jerky 1950s—the era of Elvis, the bop, poodle skirts, and the magical, coming-of-age journey of high school junior, jokester, and aspiring kid magician Mikey Moran, who leaves his mundane world to become the new soda jerk in a wacky Richmond, Virginia, neighborhood drugstore. There, he encounters a menagerie of quirky characters destined to change his life forever; Old Doc, the drugstore’s wily owner, the Italian Mafiosi, and his southern fried belle, a soft-shoe dancing encyclopedia salesman, mind readers, carnival workers, magicians, his football player rival, and the girl of his dreams. In Soda Jerk Wizard, Mikey’s life is complicated by his escalating prankster behavior, and serious troubles begin when he attends a spooky séance and uses Houdini-like techniques to expose the Indian mystic as a fraud and shuts down the event. In quick succession, he loses his father to cancer, his sweetheart abruptly moves away without a promise of return, and Mikey is then shocked to discover that his actions at the séance have caused the immigrant’s family to become destitute. To right this terrible wrong, he assembles a team of zany drug store associates, and with the magic learned from his uncle, “The Amazing Le Roy,” he creates an incredible stage show entertainment starring the Indian with superhuman powers of memory. Will Mikey extricate himself from some seriously dangerous life-threatening behavior? Can he avoid the sadistic attack from his football nemesis and rekindle his romantic relationship with his one true love? Not before thwarting some formidable foes with his laugh-out-loud pranks, magical abilities, perseverance, and sheer guts that will dramatically alter his life and those around him.

April Michelle Davis copyedited this manuscript. The manuscript was reviewed at the clause level, checking thematic organization at paragraph and sentence levels and checking for consistencies, errors, and omissions. Included are basic spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, and word usage. In addition, April Michelle assisted the author with formatting and self-publishing this book on KDP.

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The Yield

November 1, 2022

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Join The Land columnist Susan Peterson Johnson on a journey through personal and spiritual trials. In this compilation of spiritual articles originally published in The Land magazine, Susan dares to openly and honestly share the experiences of family life on a farm, adoption, nursing a soul mate through an accelerated case of Alzheimer’s, and finding the strength to love again. The Yield, a heartfelt memoir, will inspire readers to consider their own strength, resilience, and moments of transformation and will hopefully leave them with the belief that in life’s journey, love truly does conquer all. April Michelle Davis was selected to perform the final step in the editing process before this manuscript went to print. A responsibility some professionals would not want to accept, yet April Michelle took on this task knowing the author and publisher depended on her expertise in this area. April Michelle proofread this book in PDF format and reviewed the pages for errors in type as well as in design.

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Your Family Compass

October 1, 2022

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Your Family Compass – Indexed

Parenting is hard work and in today’s busy society it’s easy for families to get off track, unsure of the direction they’re headed.

Your Family Compass gives parents real tools for dealing with the challenges that come with raising children birth through the early teen years and will truly put your family on a healthy path.

April Michelle Davis spent two weeks writing the index for this book. She indexed names, topics, and ideas to make searching for a parenting technique easy to locate and cross-referenced with related information.

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