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Lana Okerlund is an experienced editor, writer, book indexer, and writing and editing instructor based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Attentive to the words, collaborative with clients, and reliable on budgets and schedules: these are the hallmarks of Lana’s work—and clients agree. With a special focus on non-fiction, Lana has a diverse client roster that includes…
Adding context to history writing with archival research: Sometimes you have to go offline
When writing corporate history or personal memoir books for clients, I often need to supplement personal interviews with archival research in order to corroborate a memory, understand the time and place in which a story occurred, or gather materials that will give the book some visual interest. For this work, I’m incredibly lucky to live at…
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Please fill out the following contact form, or email lokerlund@shaw.ca directly, and Lana will respond as soon as possible. (Image credit: Vancouver Archives, AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-2867, Jack Lindsay collection.)
We were so happy with your Toronto Star index and would love if you could take [another] one on as well.
Susan Burns, managing editor, Appetite by Random House
It was a pleasure working with you, Lana. You are extremely professional and your expertise was obvious to me. I particularly appreciated your fine attention to detail and commitment to the timelines of the project. You have really helped to tighten my story, and it flows so much better after the editing process with you.
