My name is C.K. Gurin.

Officially, I am a professional editor, author of eight books, co-author of six others, and a resident of Florida. I am a native of Miami and attended Miami Dade College.

I have all 5-star ratings on UpWork, and 29 of the books that I have edited currently have 5-star ratings on Amazon.

I often accept short-term assignments, and clients have been pleased with my work. Many return to me again and again with additional writing and editing assignments.

Ideally, I'd also enjoy a full-time remote position that would allow me to use my diverse abilities more effectively. I've done rather a lot of other things.
Professional History: Licensed Florida Real Estate Broker and former appraiser of luxury real estate, a partner in Everglades Land & Development, and former Vice President with The Morello Companies, luxury real estate.

When my husband accepted the position as managing director of a large multinational holding company, we moved to Europe for several years. Upon our return to Florida, we invented, patented, and manufactured a number of products, including wired, mobile, lift enabled computer furnishings entitled The Office™ and The Learning Station™, both of which received international recognition and sequentially took Grand Prize at NeoCon, the World's Trade Fair for Interior Design, Facilities Management & Communications, two years in a row.

LITERACY ACTIVISM: I have been active in the Bedtime-Story Literacy Project, (501-C3) an effort featured by MSNBC, the BBC, MIT's Invention Dimension, and Readers Digest. Some of my own writings have appeared in the nationally distributed textbooks of several educational publishers (Macmillan, Scholastic, etc.) Additionally, one of my better-known short stories has been particularly popular with children. The tale was featured as number 7 in a top-10 list of recommended stories for parents to read to their children. It's great good fun to find oneself mentioned in the same breath as such renowned children's literature luminaries as Dr. Spock, Margaret Wise Brown, Shel Silverstein, and Maurice Sendak.

MARKETING EXPERTISE: I enjoy a reasonably respectable IQ, writing is my passion, and I'm considered adept enough at marketing to have been featured in the Miami Herald, Wall Street Journal, and an assortment of other publications.

ADDITIONAL BUSINESS ACTIVITY: I owned and operated a small, well-regarded Estate Jewelry boutique in Stuart, Florida.
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When I closed the estate jewelry business in 2016, I shifted my focus to writing and editing professionally full-time, broadening my client base and working on virtually every kind of book.

WRITING SKILLS: I have edited hundreds of stories for all age groups and audiences. I have also ghostwritten a number of books for clients.
Ghost-writing: For my writing speed, creating an original plot with minor incidental research as I write, a reasonable estimate might be anywhere from 1200 - 2000 words per day.
Editing: The timing of editing work depends upon the skill, talent, plot, and research capabilities of the author whose work I accept. Every author and every author's work is different.
Editing feedback on my work in diverse genres may be found on the opening page of TheQuantumCat.

To summarize; I'm generally considered smart, creative, entrepreneurial, loyal, and a hard worker. I also happen to be really good at riding shotgun, as it were.
If you think we might be a match, I'll look forward to hearing from you.

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