Our Promise

Stirling Editing’s commitment

While we can­not guar­an­tee that our ser­vices will ensure pub­li­ca­tion of your work, we do promise to give you 110 per­cent of our time, exper­tise, and enthu­si­asm in the hope that we can bring you one step closer to publication.

Stirling Editing’s philosophy

Our goal is to pro­vide our clients with a ser­vice based on integrity, ethics, accu­racy, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and enthusiasm.

Stirling Editing wishes you great suc­cess in all your writ­ing endeavors!

* Stirling Editing was estab­lished in March of 2004.

Cheri Lasota, Founder and Principal Editor

Cheri Lasota

Founder and Principal Editor

Over the course of her fifteen-​​year career, Cheri Lasota has edited fic­tion, non­fic­tion, screen­plays, and short sto­ries for pub­li­ca­tion. Clients include McGraw-​​Hill Publishing Company as well as indi­vid­ual fic­tion writ­ers and screen­writ­ers, some of which have been published.

Cheri also has over sev­en­teen years of expe­ri­ence writ­ing poetry and fic­tion. She  has recently fin­ished revi­sions on her first novel, a his­tor­i­cal novel set in the Azores Islands, Portugal, where she lived for two years. Artemis Rising is rep­re­sented by Bernadette Baker-​​Baughman of Victoria Sanders and Associates, LLC. Currently, Cheri is writ­ing and research­ing her sec­ond novel, a YA romance set on the Oregon Coast.

She began her edit­ing career in news and non­fic­tion. In high school, she edited books, jour­nals, and newslet­ters for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a non­profit eco­nom­ics group. While earn­ing her B.A. in Communications/​Film and minor in English, she worked as editor-​​in-​​chief of the University of South Alabama’s weekly stu­dent news­pa­per The Vanguard. Other recent work includes edit­ing doc­u­ments and draw­ings for engi­neer­ing firms Bechtel National, Inc. and Westmar Consultants Corp. Her non­fic­tion edit­ing work totals eleven years in all.

Cheri is a mem­ber of Women In Portland Publishing (WiPP) and the NW Independent Editors Guild (NWIEG). She is an active mem­ber of Willamette Writers, and attends the Willamette Writers Conference every year. She has also par­tic­i­pated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for three years.

Simon Tatom

Associate Editor

Simon holds a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in English and Philosophy from Oregon State University (2006) and a Bachelor of Science in Humanities from Western Oregon University (2000). While attend­ing OSU, he worked in the cam­pus Writing Center as a tutor, and has done some free­lance edit­ing since graduation.

He enjoys all kinds of fic­tion, but his favorite genre is sci-fi/fantasy. He is cur­rently writ­ing a fan­tasy novel, as well as a retelling of the Robin Hood leg­end and a non­fic­tion piece look­ing at the con­nec­tions between medieval lit­er­a­ture and mod­ern fantasy.

Simon was raised in Canby, Oregon, and cur­rently lives in Corvallis, Oregon.