Christine M. Fairchild offers four decades of experience as a writer, editor & book doctor. She specializes in Suspense fiction and helps authors take their work, and their career, to the next level. She also writes Suspense and Historical fiction, so she personally understands the challenges authors face in their craft and the publishing industry.
Despite being told she would never graduate from high
school, let alone earn a college degree, because her family was poor, Christine began working as a young teenager and put herself through college, earning a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley, the top English department in the US at that time.
Christine trained as a journalist from the age of 14, so at by the time she entered college she was working as a professional copy editor, speechwriter and freelance reporter. As an editor and journalist she was trained in photography, graphic design, information design, computer technology, marketing/advertising and psychology. She specialized in interviewing people and writing profiles of professionals and celebrities.
She has spent the last three decades writing and/or serving as editor for publications (XFiles, SciFiMall.com), software and telecomm companies (Microsoft, F5 Networks, Cingular, AT&T), and corporate giants (Airborne Express, DHL). She's provided executive communications, marketing, branding, PR, training, and even ghostwriting services. She specialized in the psychology of language and communication/information design, with a focus on women consumer behavior and trends.
Christine trained as a journalist from the age of 14, so at by the time she entered college she was working as a professional copy editor, speechwriter and freelance reporter. As an editor and journalist she was trained in photography, graphic design, information design, computer technology, marketing/advertising and psychology. She specialized in interviewing people and writing profiles of professionals and celebrities.
She has spent the last three decades writing and/or serving as editor for publications (XFiles, SciFiMall.com), software and telecomm companies (Microsoft, F5 Networks, Cingular, AT&T), and corporate giants (Airborne Express, DHL). She's provided executive communications, marketing, branding, PR, training, and even ghostwriting services. She specialized in the psychology of language and communication/information design, with a focus on women consumer behavior and trends.
As the Managing Editor for the coffee table book The Windermere Cup: A history of one of the world's premiere rowing regattas (https://windermerecup.com/ourstory), Christine helped create a product for the event's 30th anniversary celebration in only three months!
Christine was a regular
guest lecturer for the Editing Certificate program at Univ. Washington, Seattle, explaining how people's eyes/brain read and translating that into strategic editing/writing practices.
Christine loves to teach
writing and editing classes to authors and fellow editors. She's been teaching at writer
conferences (https://editordevil.blogspot.com/p/speakerships.html) for over 20 years, helping authors learn their craft and business, and inspiring them to forge ahead despite doubt.
She's published two books to help authors improve their craft (The Editor Devil's Guide to Characters and The Editor Devil's Guide to Dialogue), as well as a contemporary Romantic
Suspense series set in New York, An Eye For Danger.
She lives in Seattle with her engineer husband and a loving chocolate lab.
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