Overview
As a proofreader for a Big Five publisher, I have deep experience in both adult fiction and nonfiction, many of them bestsellers. My favorite genres are women's fiction, historical fiction, and prescriptive nonfiction. As a top editor in the features departments of major-market daily newspapers for more than two decades, I honed my writing and editing skills and met deadlines without fail. As managing editor for an independent publisher, I helped authors produce top-quality, highly illustrated nonfiction books on a wide variety of topics. I love helping authors polish their work and am known for retaining author voice while always meeting deadlines. The books in this portfolio focus solely on my work as a professional proofreader.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits
Health & Wellbeing
Self-Help & Self-Improvement
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Languages
English (US)
Work experience
HarperCollins Publishers
Sep, 2016 —
Present
Director of an in-house team providing proofreading and cold reads for HarperCollins adult general books, across all imprints. We read fiction and nonfiction. I work closely with managing editorial teams in New York and San Francisco to ensure all books meet standards.
Schiffer Publishing
Jan, 2014 —
Sep, 2016
(over 2 years)
Directed a team of editors at an independent publisher. Provided developmental and line editing for about 60 high-quality illustrated nonfiction books annually, and then managed the editorial production process, working closely with authors and designers. Prescriptive titles included house & garden, arts and crafts, and DIY. Other genres included art, architecture, design, fashion, history, and travel.
Fort Worth Star Telegram and The Baltimore Sun
Sep, 1998 —
Sep, 2016
(about 18 years)
*Award-winning humor columnist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
*Assistant managing editor for Features at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
*Senior Features Editor and Magazine Editor at The Baltimore Sun.
Portfolio
Internationally acclaimed nutrition and natural beauty expert David Wolfe, one of America’s foremost nutrition experts, distills the five factors that lead to exceptional, lasting beauty.Each year, women absorb pounds of toxins through cosmetics and beauty pro... read more
A fresh and innovative cookbook that includes 200 quick and easy-to-follow visual recipes featuring simple photographic ingredients and steps.1 ingredient + 1 ingredient + 1 ingredient 1 pot for 15 minutes = 1 delicious meal!Exhausted after a long, demanding d... read more
French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practical illustrated lifestyle guide that shows how to enjoy la belle vie—to live like the French every day—transforming your house into a home defined by beauty, fam... read more
In the tradition of The Devil Wears Prada comes Rosie Nixon's debut novel, which follows a young woman who is thrown into the fast-paced world of fashion and glamour as she’s forced to navigate the treacherous Hollywood red carpets…while finding a fairytale lo... read more
A revolutionary, proven program for reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline from award winning neurologists and codirectors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical CenterOver 47 millio... read more
In this “rich, fascinating portrait of extraordinary sensory awareness” (Kirkus), acclaimed neurologist Joel Salinas, M.D., tells his amazing true story of living and practicing medicine with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare neurological trait that allows him ... read more
The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn with the driving suspense of Harlan Coben, in which a man is troubled by odd sounds for which there is... read more
The battle between vicious spirits and strong-willed queens that started in the award-winning The Queen of Blood and continued in the powerful The Reluctant Queen comes to a stunning conclusion in The Queen of Sorrow, the final volume of Sarah Beth Durst’s Que... read more
National Bestseller!Sports media superstar Clay Travis wants to save sports from the social justice warriors seeking to turn them into another political battleground.Have you ever tuned into your favorite sports highlights show, only to find the talking heads ... read more
“As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn, and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated on a screenplay to be filmed by Hitchcock—suspenseful and atmospheric.” —Joyce Carol Oates, author of The Book of American MartyrsThe last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arr... read more
“Periodically a writer captures the pattern of comedy and tragedy that peppers office life like alternating colors of carpet squares. . . . As smart as Medoff’s critique of corporate inanity is, it’s tempered by compassion for these people, who are ultimately ... read more
A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre—a lust for life, art, and steamy sex. “Artful, feminist, and emotio... read more
In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II—Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat ... read more
A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD From Willy Vlautin, award-winning author of Lean on Pete and The Motel Life, comes a powerful exploration of identity and loneliness pulled from deep within America's soul.Don’t Skip Out On Me is going to make your heart c... read more
The first entry in a clever, lighthearted mystery series set in modern Provence—a delightful blend of Agatha Christie and Peter Mayle—featuring the irrepressible Penelope Kite, a young-at-heart divorcee with a knack for stumbling across dead bodies.It’s love a... read more
A jilted-at-the-altar bride reunites with her high school sweetheart in Lori Wilde’s sensational new Twilight, Texas Christmas novel.Kelsey James always played by the rules and look where it got her—dumped and half-drunk in a poofy white dress, her Christmas w... read more
#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International BestsellerThis beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love st... read more
