Adele's specialties include tabletop roleplaying games, particularly ones using the "Powered by the Apocalypse" engine; fantasy fiction, and work by non-native speakers of English. She has experience editing English-language works by writers who natively speak Italian, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese, among other languages. This experience has afforded her unique insight into patterns in the English language that may not be evident to speakers less familiar with the stylistic conventions of English prose and technical writing.
Adele's interests include, first and foremost, a love of storytelling, and a deep desire to help people communicate their thoughts effectively and with panache. She has an intense interest in linguistics, and in the history of English and how it intersects with other languages (we only have one loanword from Basque!). In her free time she puts her food service background to use by cooking and baking extensively. Her non-edible hobbies include knitting and solving crossword puzzles.
Adele has a variety of experience in editing tabletop roleplaying games. Her proudest achievement is her work as the English-language version of Little Katy's Tea Party, a game initially conceived and written in Italian. Her other finished projects have been shorter, including a submission for a 200-words-or-less game jam competition.
Adele's early work as an editor was with students in a graduate-level materials science lab, editing lab reports and papers for publication in scientific journals such as "Science of the Total Environment." These projects afforded her a working knowledge of the conventions of science communication as well as offering insight as to what mistakes writers tend to make in English when they speak another language, such as Russian or Mandarin Chinese, natively.
One of Adele's favorite types of projects to edit is tabletop roleplaying games. These projects have ranged from brief one-page games with a focus on tight, efficient, evocative prose, to longer games needing to maintain a consistent voice throughout several thousand words of rules, suggestions for character development, sample scenarios, and background storytelling or lore.
Adele got her start in the field of freelance editing as she was pursuing her Bachelor's degree, assisting graduate students in the publication of papers, lab reports, and doctoral-level thesis reports. Many of the students were non-native speakers of English and were seeking feedback on basic sentence structure and the elements of effectively communicating high-level scientific concepts in their target language.
Adele has completed late-stage editing on one full-length fantasy novel (she was delighted to be able to work on her favorite genre!). The client required basic proofreading as well as an editor with strong attention to detail in order to maintain internal consistency in spelling, biographical information of characters, and worldbuilding.