Editorial Internship: Collective Tales Publishing
In the fall of 2020, I interned for an indie publishing company out of Salt Lake City. Over the course of about four months, I helped the publisher screen dozens of short story submissions for their fantasy-themed anthology, summarized and “ranked” them according to quality, and recommended pieces for acceptance and rejection.
Editor’s Credit: Collective Fantasy
After screening the submissions on behalf of the publisher, I was asked to recommend my top picks for acceptance into the anthology. Once these were approved by the publisher (along with one or two additional titles of their choosing) I was tasked with performing thorough line edits of all the pieces.
Once done, the publishers (whose names appear on the cover) worked directly with the authors to make larger structural edits to their pieces. However, on the copyright page inside of printed versions of the anthology, my name appears credited in the list of editors.
Author’s Bio: Collective Fantasy
In addition to my work as an intern, I was also a contributor to the anthology itself! Below is my 2020 author’s bio for the project.
Author, Zoë Freeman
Zoë is a writer based out of Pleasant Grove, Utah. She works professionally as a marketing copywriter and copy editor, but her passion has always been for fiction and fantasy. Her interest in wordsmithing took root at a young age and she attempted her first novels at ages nine and ten—tales of pirate capture and dragons. Her skills have since matured, but she keeps those manuscripts as a reminder of her original dreams. Zoë loves character-driven stories that explore relationships and the complexities of human hearts. She uses her writing to support herself, her husband, and their cat, Tuna.
She wrote “A Silent Vengeance” for Collective Fantasy.
Marketing Assets: Editing Mee
As a smaller part of my internship, I was asked to create mock-ups of materials for the publisher’s side business that could be used in their local marketing. I came up with two ideas: a poster they could hang on bulletins at universities and coffee shops and a tri-fold handout for conventions.
Below are my designs: amateur and rough, but worth including as some of my earliest attempts at asset creation.
Zoë Freeman | Portfolio 