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Claire Reinburg

During the Q&A the audience asked the panel how to evaluate freelancers when someone else may have prepared their resumes and their references may be friends.

"You have to test freelancers," said Barbara Hart, Publications Professionals. She asks freelancers to take her three-hour test only when she has matched them to a possible assignment. She suggested editors write their tests using real-world materials.

American Psychiatric Press editorial director Claire Reinburg pays freelancers to edit a sample chapter from a book manuscript. This tests the skills of unknown freelancers and the compatibility with the material of both unknowns and regulars.

Freelancers said they like this kind of paid testing and frown on or reject taking long tests or doing sample editing without pay.

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Three editors assess the present and advise on the future

Claire Reinburg
Claire Reinburg majored in English but found her niche in editing medical journals at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

She is now editorial director of the American Psychiatric Press, a publishing subsidiary of the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C. Her duties include managing book acquisitions and overseeing book and journal production departments.

She supplements her small editorial staff with freelancers.

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