RANDEE PARASKEVOPOULOS
Randee is a creative yet critical thinker specializing in using words and graphics
to engage, educate, entertain, and inspire an audience to a desired response.
A logical, organized developmental/line editor who identifies issues and suggests options for more effective communication.
A graphic designer with 20+ years experience in static print and digital design.
Project manager of the entire design process from idea to delivery.
Randee Paraskevopoulos is a freelance graphic designer and developmental editor at P15 Creative (P15 because Paraskevopoulos has 15 letters). She studied journalism at Berry College in Rome, GA, and became a copy editor. She discovered she loved the page layout part of being a copy editor. Now, 20+ years later, Randee still has a passion for graphic design, even though she can’t draw a decent looking circle.
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Over the years, she’s created everything from logos and business cards, up to posters and wall-sized banners, from straightforward web banners to complex, multi-page playbills and catalogs. Her specialty is static graphic design – designs that grab your attention and tell you everything you need to know without moving parts or interactive features.
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Her life-time goal has always been to write a novel, so in 2010, she enrolled in the Writing Popular Fiction MFA program at Seton Hill University. By the time she earned her MFA, she had a full, 75-000-word romantic suspense novel. Like many first-time efforts, that book will remain in a box under the bed. She continues to write novels, having expanded her goal to one day get them published. She has had a few short stories appear in anthologies.
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Over the course of her study, Randee learned she is very good at helping others with their stories. She's since become a developmental/line editor and earned editing certificates from the University of Chicago and the ACES Poynter Institute. She's also done continuing education with three courses in developmental editing from the Editorial Freelance Association, as well as courses in book mapping, ghostwriting, and sensitivity reading.
Randee lives her own happily-ever-after in an idyllic suburb of DFW with her husband of 27 years. They have two technically adult daughters, both in colleges far away from home. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, taking classes on a variety of subjects, or watching just about any sport or Marvel movie. She often multi-tasks, doing those things while snuggling with her two chihuahua mixes, Pepper and Jane (named after Thor and Iron Man's girlfriends).
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In addition to her bachelor’s degree from Berry, Randee has an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and an editing certificate from the University of Chicago.
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