David Lampo

David Lampo – Editor

I am a very experienced writer, copyeditor, and proofreader, with over 40 years in the business. I have edited or proofread over 50 books.

Overview

I was the publications director for a leading think tank in Washington, DC, for 35 years and honed my editorial skills there managing its book publishing program and editorial team. Since then, I've operated my own freelance editorial services firm, and my clients include university presses, commercial book publishers, think tanks, and individual authors. My current clients include Basic Books, The Catholic University of America Press, Manhattan Institute, American Enterprise Institute, and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, I have a passion for good grammar and English prose, and my specific skills include developmental and substantive book editing as well as proofreading and copyediting. In my editorial career, I've edited or proofread at least 50 books, most of them in the areas of public policy, economics, and history.

Services
Non-Fiction
Economics History Law Political Science & Current Affairs
Languages
English (US)

Work experience

Self-employed

Oct, 2017 — Present
After I left the Cato Institute, where I was the publications director for 35 years, I began offering freelance editorial services such as editing, copyediting, and proofreading full-time and have worked with many notable clients, including the RAND Corporation, Brookings Institution, Rowman& Littlefield Publishing, George Mason University Press, Duke University Press, the Commonwealth Foundation, Basic Books, the Catholic University of America Press, American Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute, and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

Cato Institute

Feb, 1982 — Oct, 2017 (over 35 years)
As publications director, I managed the entire publications program, including books, journals, policy studies, newsletters, and direct mail, covering everything from the editorial process to printing and distribution. I managed a four-person editorial team and was acting managing editor of the Cato Institute Press, which published about a dozen books a year.

Portfolio

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The Virtue of Nationalism

Hazony, Yoram

Basic Liberty

Proofreading
Proofreading
Lies that Kill: A Citizen's Guide to Disinformation

Kamarck, Elaine

Brookings Institution Press

Developmental Editing
We Catholics Don't Die Like Them: Living with Death in American Catholicism

Nytroe, Sarah

The Catholic University of America Press

Copy Editing
Copy Editing
Proofreading
Proofreading
Proofreading
Proofreading
Proofreading
Nation at Thought

Steiner, David M.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Copy Editing
Proofreading
Copy Editing
Copy Editing
Majority Minority

Gest, Justin

Oxford University Press

Copy Editing
Money: Free and Unfree

Selgin, George

Cato Institute

Copy Editing
Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

Michaels Cato Institute, Patrick J.

Cato Institute

Proofreading
Copy Editing
Copy Editing

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