Diana Plattner – Editor

I'm a writer and editor with a background in scholarly, trade, and mass-market publishing. I began my formal editorial career at a book-compositing firm in Athens, Georgia, called Graphic Composition, Inc. (GCI), learning old-school, red-pencil copyediting from a University of Chicago Press editor. I was entrusted with texts by individuals at the tops of their respective fields, including former U.S. comptroller general Cornelius E. Tierney in federal accounting, Nouriel Roubini in economics, Noam Chomsky in social activism, and others. (I also learned how to be a wicked indexer.) The books I wrangled came from a wide range of publishers that included the National Bureau of Economic Research, Oxford University Press, John Wiley and Sons, and many more.After four years, I moved to Atlanta, where I continued to freelance for GCI and added Kensington Publishing, among others, to my client load. I then went on to spend nine years with Whitman Publishing, where I edited and project-managed scores of titles, including one of the biggest nonfiction sellers in U.S. publishing history. I was made the editorial director after three years, supervising an excellent editorial pool while also beginning to hone my design and production skills.In 2014, in a fit of unprecedented bravado, I quit my day job and hung out my shingle as a full-service book packager. I now operate a thriving operation with a wide array of satisfied clients, including commercial publishers, independent fiction and nonfiction authors, corporations, and nonprofits.