Harlan Clifford – Editor

Authors I work with say things like "the work you do is amazing," and "Hal upped my game," and "Hal ... is one of the most talented editors I have ever worked with."My purpose in life is to help other people tell their stories. I’ve been helping people understand each other for four decades and have worked with hundreds of authors, from first-time to well-known. I help you tell your story in the best possible way.I am driven to tell stories effectively. I get up every day to do good creative work and make other people’s creative work better. Examples of work I’ve done:• I edited New York Times bestseller David Goggins' books Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, and Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within.• I developed multiple Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestsellers, including Joe Mechlinski’s Shift the Work and Krister Ungerböck’s 22 Talk Shifts.I edited many popular business books, including The Ten-Year Career: Reimagine Business, Design Your Life, Fast Track Your Freedom (John Murray).• I edited books reviewed by the New York Times, including Ginger Strand’s Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate (University of Texas Press), and Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies (Simon & Schuster) and James Prosek’s Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish (HarperCollins).• I wrote the forthcoming Blackout Punch: Creating Four Loko Make Me, Broke Me, and Helped Me Find Myself, and the forthcoming Brownprint: A Blueprint for People of Color (and Others) to Reach the C-Suite.My areas of interest are:• Memoir• Business• Entrepreneurship• Personal development• Current affairs• Natural history• Personal finance