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About Me — Rochelle Deans
Editor, author, formatter, neurodivergent
On Twitter, my bio used to be, “Editor, author, formatter. Bad habits include mispronouncing words, eating ice cream right before bed, and spending too much time on the internet.” It’s flippant, maybe. A little weird. But it’s all true, and I feel like editors get the same kind of rap as librarians, like we’re peering down our noses at you through boring glasses, constantly judging.
That’s not really who I am.
For one thing, I promise you I’m way too short to peer down my nose at anyone. For another, I was an awful speller as a kid and didn’t believe in editing my own work pretty much until my last year of college. I skated by on decent-enough first drafts and spell-checkers. But I liked helping other people write, and took up a $5/essay editing side gig in college, too.
As a kid, I wanted to be an artist, then a songwriter, then a poet. When people in high school asked me if I’d ever write a novel, I told them I didn’t have the attention span to do that. It turns out I most likely have undiagnosed ADHD, which explains my retort. It does not explain why I’ve written seven novels since then, though.
These days, I have two kids (born in June 2014 and December 2015) who spell better than I did in high school, a husband, and a cat…
