Overview
Editor with 30+ years of experience; Oxford University Press and others. Developmental editing is my specialty. Also an experienced story editor, TV and movies: RHI Entertainment, Sonar Entertainment.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
History
Travel
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Work experience
RHI Entertainment/Sonar Entertainment
Jan, 2002 β
Mar, 2014
(about 12 years)
Story editor who vetted screenplays for production (thumbs up or down): character development, storyline and plot; marketability. Narrative films, mostly adventure and fantasy titles, some mysteries. Also analyzed novels to see if they'd make a good movie. Movies included Terry Pratchett stories (Hogfather); Merlin's Apprentice; The Shannara Chronicles; The Colour of Magic; Human Trafficking; Earthsea; The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
Self-employed
Feb, 1994 β
Apr, 2001
(about 7 years)
Wrote jacket copy, web copy, and catalogue blurbs for various books: memoirs, history, aviation, etc.
Oxford University Press
Mar, 1992 β
Present
First staff editor, then freelance editor for OUP for 26 years. History, theater, dance, and medical titles. Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning authors.
Portfolio
In the 1950s, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the incompa... read more
CBS camera-man Mike Marriott was on the last plane to escape from Danang before it fell in the spring of 1975. The scene was pure chaos: thousands of panic-stricken Vietnamese storming the airliner, soldiers shooting women and children to get aboard first, ref... read more
This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of entertainment? the vaudeville show. Vaudeville was a meeting place, an incl... read more
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the impo... read more
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind
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