Our Promise

Stirling Editing's commitment

While we cannot guarantee that our services will ensure publication of your work, we do promise to give you 110 percent of our time, expertise, and enthusiasm in the hope that we can bring you one step closer to publication.

Stirling Editing's philosophy

Our goal is to provide our clients with a service based on integrity, ethics, accuracy, professionalism, and enthusiasm.

Stirling Editing wishes you great success in all your writing endeavors!

* Stirling Editing was established in 2004.

Over the course of her thirteen-year career, Cheri Lasota has edited fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, and short stories for publication. Clients include McGraw-Hill Publishing Company as well as individual fiction writers and screenwriters, some of which have been published. She has five years of experience editing various types of fiction, including genre fiction, children's books, and screenplays.

She has recently published her first e-book, Plan Well, Write Well: The secret to crafting your best plots, characters, and settings. This e-book was created to help fiction writers craft better stories by using planning techniques, such as freewriting, visualization, and timelines. Cheri also has over seventeen years of experience writing poetry and fiction. Cheri is currently revising her first novel, an historical fantasy novel set in the Azores Islands, Portugal, where she lived for two years. Also in the works is a sequel to the first novel.

She began her editing career in news and nonfiction. In high school, she edited books, journals, and newsletters for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a nonprofit economics group. While earning her B.A. in Communications/Film and minor in English, she worked as editor-in-chief of the University of South Alabama's weekly student newspaper The Vanguard. Other recent work includes editing documents and drawings for engineering firms Bechtel National, Inc. and Westmar Consultants Corp. Her nonfiction work totals eleven years in all.

Cheri is currently a member of Women In Portland Publishing (WiPP), the NW Independent Editors Guild (NWIEG), Oregon Writers Colony (OWC). She is an active member of Willamette Writers, and will teach three workshops for the Southern Chapter coming up on June 7. She has also participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for the past two years.

Simon Tatom
Editor




Simon holds a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in English and Philosophy from Oregon State University (2006) and a Bachelor of Science in Humanities from Western Oregon University (2000). While attending OSU, he worked in the campus Writing Center as a tutor, and has done some freelance editing since graduation.

He enjoys all kinds of fiction, but his favorite genre is sci-fi/fantasy. He is currently writing a fantasy novel, as well as a retelling of the Robin Hood legend and a nonfiction piece looking at the connections between medieval literature and modern fantasy.

Simon was raised in Canby, Oregon, and currently lives in Corvallis, Oregon.