ScribeJust thought I'd introduce myself.
Summing my life up in a paragraph, I'm an expatriate American living in Europe for the past 20 years where I've made my living in various roles ranging from translator, wire service editor, investigative journalist and consultant. I currently work in a risk consulting/detective agency where we conduct pre-transaction due dilligence and chase bad guys and money when deals have already gone bad. Rather intense (often amusing) work that includes everything from finding missing persons to surveillance to figuring out the latest money laundering schemes.
Actually... If I'm going to truly be honest about it, most of it is quite boring. Rather like other editing jobs I've had in the past. Something between working as the editor of a news magazine and a rather aggressive wire service.
That said, I've been published a-plenty in non-fiction, but when it comes to fiction I'm one of those with a lot of manuscripts never sent to anyone. There just hasn't been the time. Or maybe I just need to get more organized.
Okay, so that's three paragraphs going on four... The only other things I can think of that you might find halfway interesting are that I front a psychobilly band, and I'm a bit multi-lingual. And as an investigative journalist I was constantly in trouble with the law.
Looking forward to meeting you guys through the forum...
K
Summing my life up in a paragraph, I'm an expatriate American living in Europe for the past 20 years where I've made my living in various roles ranging from translator, wire service editor, investigative journalist and consultant. I currently work in a risk consulting/detective agency where we conduct pre-transaction due dilligence and chase bad guys and money when deals have already gone bad. Rather intense (often amusing) work that includes everything from finding missing persons to surveillance to figuring out the latest money laundering schemes.
Actually... If I'm going to truly be honest about it, most of it is quite boring. Rather like other editing jobs I've had in the past. Something between working as the editor of a news magazine and a rather aggressive wire service.
That said, I've been published a-plenty in non-fiction, but when it comes to fiction I'm one of those with a lot of manuscripts never sent to anyone. There just hasn't been the time. Or maybe I just need to get more organized.
Okay, so that's three paragraphs going on four... The only other things I can think of that you might find halfway interesting are that I front a psychobilly band, and I'm a bit multi-lingual. And as an investigative journalist I was constantly in trouble with the law.
Looking forward to meeting you guys through the forum...
K
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