About Blue Pencil Consulting
Kathleen M. Victory Hannisian, owner of Blue Pencil Consulting, offers clients over 29 years of experience as a writer and editor, and helps businesses and individuals create effective, polished communications. Clients say they enjoy working with Kate because of her editing wizardry, her keen attention to detail coupled with deep insights about the big picture, and her coaching ability to get people who believed they couldn't write a book or an article to a place where they understand that they really can write.
Prior to starting her own business, Kate enjoyed a successful 17-year career as a journalist, writing and editing business-to-business and business-to-consumer newsletters on sustainable development and business issues, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and corporate and personal finance. She has served as editor of Business and the Environment (Cutter Information Corp), Merger Management Report, Bankers Middle Market Lending Letter, and Donoghue's MONEYLETTER. Kate was also a contributing editor for the Bowne Review for CFOs & Investment Bankers.
In addition to her work with clients, Kate is currently a part-time faculty member at Emerson College in the Writing, Literature and Publishing department, where she has taught copyediting and book publishing.
Kate is a member of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce (www.northshorechamber.org), the North Shore Business Forum (http://www.nsbforum.org), the Creative Economy Association of the North Shore (www.ceans.org), and the North Shore Technology Council (www.nstc.org). Kate serves as the Publicity Chair for the Homebased Businesswomen's Network (www.h-b-n.org) and edits the group's monthly email newsletter.
Kate has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Speech Communications from Boston College.