Overview

I've been in publishing since 1982. My freelance clients included major houses (Random, Dell, Ballantine, etc.), but I've also served in-house as a senior/managing editor at Rodale and Prentice Hall. Over that time, I've worn a many hats: editor, book doctor, author, ghostwriter, and dramaturg for everything from fiction to hard science to stage plays. I've also served as literary manager at a major theatre and as editorial director at a PR firm that focused on the nonprofit world. I've worked with everyone from bestselling women's fiction authors to nobel caliber scientists.

If you're writing novels, I'll provide everything from developmental analysis of plot, character, structure, to line-editing, copy editing, or if you'd prefer, a complete doctoring or rewrite. If nonfiction is your thing, I'll meet your editorial needs, whatever they may be, from straightforward content editing to helping you turn your idea for a book or article into a polished manuscript. We'll work together to make sure you end up with a top quality product to present to publishers. The books in my portfolio, below, are include both works I authored and works I edited.

Services

Developmental Editing

Editorial Assessment

Fiction

Action & Adventure Historical Fiction

Non-Fiction

Health & Wellbeing

Languages

English (US)

Work experience

Editor

Self-employed

Jan, 1978 — Present

Editor with broad experience in book publishing. Specialties in health, psychology, medical, and self-help nonfiction, and historical, historical romance, action/adventure/military, and women's fiction.

Served as a senior editor at two major publishing houses, Rodale Books and Prentice Hall Press, and as a freelance editor with numerous clients over four decades.

Pitched, wrote proposals for, edited, ghost wrote, authored, and doctored books (more than 100 titles) for publishers and packagers, including Ballantine; Harper Collins; Dell; Bantam; Delacorte; Banbury; Penguin Putnam/Avery; Eagle/Lifeline; Rebus; Reader’s Digest; Chelsea House; Guilford Press; Stewart, Tabori, and Chang; Humanities Press. Shorter work included features, booklets, and/or brochures for Lehigh University and Health Monitor, Inc. (Data Centrum Communications).

Nonfiction subjects included health and medicine, biology, psychology, biography, self-help, communications, computer science, European history, military history, and philosophy. Fiction authors included, among many others, Fern Michaels, Bertrice Small, and Lucia St. Clair Robson. Nonfiction authors included William S. Beck, Karel F. Liem, and George Gaylord Simpson (groundbreaking theorists in evolutionary biology); Polly Young Eisendrath (renowned feminist and Jungian analyst); Paul Rivas (well-known weight loss doctor); William Mahedy (Episcopal priest and developer of the Vietnam Vet Centers Program for the Veterans Administration); and many others.

Wrote a biography of Rachel Carson (YA market) published by Chelsea House. Also wrote two novels published by Dell Books, and several stage plays produced in the Philadelphia area. Served as literary manager of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia for two seasons and taught playwrighting there for 10 years.

Editor

Self-employed

Jan, 1978 — Present

Served as a senior editor at two major publishing houses, Rodale Books and Prentice Hall Press, and as a freelance editor with numerous clients over four decades.