Zen Editorial specializes in written material related to spirituality and wellness.

About Us: We can clarify your manuscript, help with your website content and tweak your newsletter.


Zen Editorial provides meticulous and professional service with a focus on integrity and thoughtful feedback. Whether you are an author, business owner or student we can critique your message to ensure your words are effective before they are published or printed. We can clarify your manuscript, blog, website content, newsletter and advertising copy.

Zen Editorial’s slogan is We’re Word Conscious because owner Marlene MacIsaac is passionate about wellness and spirituality and specializes in editing material related to mind-body-spirit awareness.

Marlene is an Editors’ Association of Canada member (and board member of the BC Branch) and an Applied Communication graduate from Victoria, B.C. Marlene spent her first ten years in Greater Vancouver (1998 to 2008) working in TV and radio as an editor, writer, anchor, reporter and producer for market-leading media outlets Global BC TV, Global National, CKNW AM980, CKWX News1130 and CBC Television’s Canada Now.

Marlene has taken many of the courses offered through Simon Fraser University’s Writing and Publishing program and is working her way through SFU’s Editing Certificate program. (For more information visit http://www.sfu.ca/wp/index.htm.)

Check out Marlene’s profile in Business in Vancouver at http://snurl.com/x83o5.

Marlene’s recent editing projects include:

  • editing a North Vancouver businessman’s work-in-progress novel
  • editing a Vancouver businessman’s book on business growth;
  • revising website copy for a Coquitlam nutritionist;
  • editing a Burnaby personal trainer’s children’s book;
  • writing website copy for a Port Moody company;
  • editing three Vancouver entrepreneurs’ business plans;
  • editing two Vancouver business owners’ website content;
  • editing the local Red Cross Disaster Management Group Lodging training manual;
  • editing a New Westminster designer’s advertising copy;
  • proofreading and writing articles for BCBusiness magazine’s Nov. and Dec. 2009 and Jan. 2010 issues;
  • editing, writing and producing newscasts for Global BC TV, Global National, CKNW AM980, CKWX News1130 and CBC Television’s Canada Now; and
  • editing an artist’s Christmas cards.
  • We’re Word Conscious.



    What We Edit
    Manuscripts
    Memoirs
    Website content
    Advertising copy
    Marketing copy
    Business plans
    Newsletters
    Training manuals
    Blogs