Overview
A freelance editor and publishing consultant, specializing in memoir and nonfiction adventure travel.
Services
Fiction
Anthologies
Literary Fiction
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Travel
Work experience
Self
Jun, 2010 —
Present
Editing, consulting, teaching memoir and pitch classes.
Sunbelt Publications
Sep, 2000 —
Jul, 2011
(almost 11 years)
As acquiring editor and then editor-in-chief, I worked with authors from query to manuscript to book, through completion of marketing plan.
Portfolio
In the early 1970s, Michael Humfreville and his wife left their surburban home and their jobs at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and headed to Baja Californias Bahia de los Angeles. Living in a tiny hut they constructed on a remote beach, they bond... read more
The story of the Spanish expedition to help found San Diego is told through diary excerpts and the author's comments, taking the reader day-by-day on the journey through the unexplored, desolate wilderness of northern Baja California. Listed for the first time... read more
Thirty-seven writers are represented in this third anthology from San Diego Writers, Ink, in a collection that includes poetry, short stories, novel and memoir excerpts, creative nonfiction, and flash fiction.
A collection of three decades of poetry by Diane Shea, peace activist, artist, and celebrant.
Christa, a shy college student, is interning at a Chicago law firm. One morning, she spots a mysterious stranger across the street from her office. This seemingly casual incident tears Christa from her world and sends her into a terrifying struggle with the re... read more
She was looking for a horse. What she found was romance. And danger.Willie Adams is at the L.A. Equestrian Center shopping for her first horse. A young widow struggling with the idea of dating again, she never expected that a gorgeous trainer like Tyler Ransom... read more
The year is 1985 in Deadly Little Secrets, a story about taking sides and playing dirty. A work of fiction, in many parts of the USA, the issue of AIDS education in public high schools is still the hot button it was back when the virus first took hold and this... read more
Teacher Samantha Stitsill is a fixer, and her hot detective, Jim McGrath, has lost his memory. In hopes of spurring his recovery, she plans a trip to the Wendell Gilley Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, where McGrath will carve by day and woo her by night. When the... read more
The journey of a good girl to glittery party girlTel Aviv. Israel's very own city of sin. And for Sarah Dakar, the metropolis becomes just that once she is evacuated from her home in Gush Katif, Gaza by the army she once loved and admired -- an army to which h... read more
A journey of self-discovery unfolds as a woman travels with her adult daughters to the Galapagos to see natural selection in action. Her memoir of family bonding is set amongst giant tortoises, salt-crested marine iguanas, and crimson-throated Magnificent Frig... read more
Winner of three independent book awards: NIEA, Readers’ Favorites and Beverly Hills Book AwardsAfter her mother and father divorce at age seven, Leslie quickly learns the hard lessons of being Dad's favorite. The abuse begins at age nine and doesn't end until ... read more
Between the Lines tells the story of three girls who become friends during the racially-charged aftermath of the 1967 Detroit Riots. Hattie Percha is crushed when the riots start on her tenth birthday, and when she must move away from her treasured childhood h... read more
Experience a chef s fifty-year journey beginning as a dishwasher, on to the Army mess tents, through a day from hell at one of his successful restaurants, to his thriving charter dinner cruise business. An insider s exploration of the challenges and triumphs o... read more
"When I was a young horse, I thought if I wasn’t always good, I could at least be useful. Then I broke my leg." When Snoopy was three years old, he won the 2007 Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Association Trail Futurity. His trainer and his owner had his career ma... read more
