Barbara March

       Barbara March’s writing and editing career spans newspaper, magazine, and book publishing. She has worked as a newspaper columnist, travel journalist, and she is a published poet.

       As founder of Carmel Publishing Company, she has won numerous publishing awards. Barbara March’s publishing and editing credits include “Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat,” by Paul Zarzyski, winner of the 2004 Spur Award for Poetry, and “Laughing Eyes, A Book of Letters Between Edward & Cole Weston,” winner of the 2000 Independent Publisher’s Award for Best Memoir. She also published a lifestyle magazine for Carmel, California, for ten years.

       After moving to Modoc County, California, in 2000 with her husband, author Ray A. March, she co-founded a community newspaper, The Modoc Independent News; a lifestyle magazine for northeastern California, Modoc & More; and an outdoor recreation guide, Modoc Outdoors.

       A third generation Nevadan and graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, with a degree in English Literature, Barbara March is also the co-founder of the Modoc Forum, www.modocforum.org, a 501C3 non-profit corporation that sponsors the annual Surprise Valley Writers’ Conference.

Sara Gooch

       Sara Gooch has been a freelance editor for twenty years. Her editing experience includes fiction, non-fiction, technical writing, and children’s non-fiction.

        Following a career teaching English, she taught college-level humanities and English as a Second Language to adults. Sara Gooch brings an eclectic base of experience to Deep Creek Editing. In addition to her teaching, writing, and editing experience, she has worked as a part-time buckaroo and as a professional mediator.

       From 1988 to 1999, she was the editor of the Modoc County Historical Society Journal, an annual publication that received the California State Historical Society’s Award of Merit for Local History in 1994.

       In addition to working directly with authors, in 1999 she contracted her developmental and copyediting services with Lowell House Publications. In her work with Lowell House, she not only edited, but also contributed to book layout and design for two successful children’s non-fiction books.

       Sara Gooch has lived and worked in Modoc County in the rural northeastern corner of California for over thirty years, and her involvement in water and land-use issues has strengthened her understanding of the controversies and conflicts and deepened her appreciation of the land and its inhabitants.