Amy Martin – Editor

I am an Assistant Acquisitions Editor on the Literary Studies list at Bloomsbury Academic, including the Literatures as World Literature series and the newly established Comparative Jewish Literature series.

I commission new titles, taking proposals and manuscripts through the peer review process. I work with authors to prepare their manuscripts for transmittal to Production. I review manuscripts to be sure they fit our US or UK house style guidelines and formatting requirements, and that edited volumes follow consistent style across chapters. I review each book for potential copyright violations, in text and images, and for image file quality. I like to guarantee that each manuscript is indeed ready for the Production team before transmittal to increase the author's satisfaction with the copyediting and proofing process.

I also liaise between authors and the Design team during the cover design process, and I am tasked with making sure advance copies of our books reach their authors and editors in a timely fashion. I love to see the new books come in and to hear an author's reaction to holding it in their hands

I was the assistant to Bloomsbury's Music and Sound Studies editor and a US-based Literary Studies editor, including the Object Lessons and 33 1/3 series. I worked with authors to prepare their manuscripts for transmittal to Production. I reviewed manuscripts to be sure they fit our US or UK house style guidelines and formatting requirements, and that edited volumes follow consistent style across chapters. I reviewed each book for potential copyright violations, in text and images, and for image file quality. I worked to guarantee that each manuscript was ready for the Production team before transmittal to increase the author's satisfaction with the copyediting and proofing process.

I also liaised between authors and the Design team during the cover design process, and I made sure advance copies of our books reached their authors and editors in a timely fashion.

As an editorial intern for Bloomsbury's US Adult Editorial team, I regularly read and provided reader reports on various genres, including historical fiction, literary fiction, memoir, history, and biography. I also helped draft or revise cover copy for books in production.

I was able to successfully accomplish these tasks because of my experience as an avid reader, as well as my years of literary study, including a bachelors, a masters, and a doctoral program.

As a publicity intern at the French Embassy's book department, I copy-edited articles for the website and promotional materials. I wrote the Week in Review to share news on the website and in a newsletter, based on research about French books news in the U.S. and around the world. I also maintained the Twitter presence of the Book Department.

I worked with Distinguished Professor of French Domna C. Stanton to prepare The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France (Routledge, 2014) for publication. I then worked with her publisher's copy editor to clear up issues that arose in the editing and proofing stages, and I assisted on compiling the index for the book.

In 2018, I copy edited Dr. Stanton's chapter, "Contradicting Recollections of Slavery," for an upcoming volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery.

I'm currently assisting Dr. Stanton on the research phase of her upcoming book on the Nation and Louis XIV.