Jill Bailin – Editor

Clients have included literary agents, budding novelists, established novelists, e-book authors, university professors, self-help writers, Fortune 500 companies, national nonprofits, brick-and-mortar publishing houses, as well as the local Village government and PTA. One long-term project for an international pharmaceutical firm required me to proofread in 14 languages.

I've worked as a consultant for Selling on in-house projects including their direct mail, sales letters, Web sites, e-newsletters, white papers, press releases and more; and I've also done the same for many of Selling's top brand-name clients. I've done p.r. and gotten publicity for their academic affiliate at Northwestern University -- the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement. Telemarketing on behalf of their numerous B-to-B name-brand and Fortune 500 clients is another skill I honed at Selling.

At a boutique literary agency, I read and reported on manuscripts for acquisition, and acted as liaison between clients, potential clients, and principal of agency. Helped with editing and proofreading of client projects.

Assistant to the President | Not-for-profit Years: US Fund for UNICEF
January 1987 - January 1991
I functioned as liaison between President and all internal departments, as well as the Board of Directors. Recruiting and working with celebrities to aid in the cause of publicizing the premier organization to aid children in developing countries included writing and editing articles, reports, press releases, talking points, and doing research for the President and celebrity representatives.

During the TV years I worked for the program director at WEWS-TV in Cleveland and as a producer on a two-hour daily live morning talk/news show, and then came to New York to work for Regis Philbin's nationally syndicated Lifetime show.

From '77 to '84 were the Book Years. At the Summit imprint of Simon & Schuster I worked in Editorial, editing novels and non-fiction by wonderful people you've never heard of, and some you have, such as Hunter S. Thompson. Moving to Cleveland, I managed a Classic Bookshop and then became regional supervisor for the Canadian chain's 13 U.S. stores.