Overview
I'm flexible with respect to process, but I've always got an eye on quality. I've worked with authors and writers who are non-native speakers and the dyslexic to achieve their literary and editorial goals. I'm a sucker for a novel premise. I have a broad variety of experience. Likewise, I'm interested in a broad variety of projects.
Services
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Languages
Awards
- 2005 (inaugural) IndieFab Gold Award Literary Fiction (Adult)
Certifications
- Certificate for English Language Teaching to Adults
Work experience
Dwarven Forge
*Collaborated to develop cosmology, pantheon, laws and cultures for a fantasy table-top RPG gaming world
*Wrote playable module content
*Developed re-playable narrative matrix system to allow for several novel replays of module content
*Aided multi-million dollar successful Kickstarter campaign for the production of table-top gaming terrain
*Appeared in documentary about the studio founder
LexisNexis
*Contributed to organization-wide innovation effort
*Recruited leading international academic and practitioner authors for online content initiative
*Managed profitable publications and author relationships, fifteen to twenty releases per year
*Engaged in content acquisition, aggregation, and development for various practice areas
*Developed foreign and domestic author relationships and assessed list for rejuvenation
*Edited hard copy and master files of legal treatise content for all media
*Attended annual legal technology convention, American Bar Association section meetings
FS Laurel Press
*Worked closely with author to develop ideas for novels and other projects
*Helped author to develop writing skills and reading priorities
*Copy edited and developed several novel-length works of original fiction in the following categories: satire
genre send-ups, comedy, speculative fiction. religious fiction, literary fiction
*Collaborated to generate guerrilla marketing tactics and materials
*Placed publisher's first novel with a review organization that awarded it their inaugural Gold Award for Literary Fiction (Adult)
*Advised publisher on digital media publishing strategies and website development
TOR Books
*Wrote publicity letters and developed media kits for publisher's front list
*Learned publicity priority channels for marketing
*Read front list science fiction and fantasy and learned about marketing positioning in genre fiction
Oxford University Press
*Prepared budgets for title specific projects
*Presented projects to editorial board for approval
*Prepared and developed publishing contracts
*Developed manuscripts with authors to meet market demand
*Researched markets and competition for targeted acquisitions list
*Compiled and prepared manuscripts for production
*Vetted manuscripts submitted for publication
Oxford University Press
*Assisted in evaluating manuscripts and proposals under consideration by VP/Exec. Ed.
*Prepared publishing contracts for approved proposals
*Prepared manuscripts for production and launch
*Represented editorial department at launch meetings
*Acted as liaison between authors and production department