Julie Blattberg – Editor

Copy editing and proofreading for top publishers, including HarperCollins; Penguin Group; Harry N. Abrams; Stewart, Tabori and Chang; Rodale; Random House; Hyperion; Parachute Publishing; Quirk Publishing; and Sterling Publishing.

Contemporary and historical fiction, middle grade and young adult, genre fiction, history, cookbooks and lifestyle, art and photography, biographies and memoirs.

In addition to running editorial and marketing operations, I successfully launched and managed Worth Books -- a short-form nonfiction imprint at Open Road. Not only did this require overseeing staff line editors and developing relationships with freelance writers, I performed a great deal of developmental editing on select manuscripts, and proofread each and every file before approving for release. As with every editorial role in my career, I hold each work to the highest standards of quality.

On the backend of publishing operations, I successfully executed on a catalog-wide review of BISAC subject codes, to ensure the greatest possible discoverability of books and authors; and commissioned, edited, or wrote hundreds of pieces of web-friendly descriptive copy.

A a senior member of the marketing team at HarperCollins Publishers, my accomplishments included running all of the corporate-branded social media channels, from content conception to creation to execution for Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and BuzzFeed*. (Articles I published on behalf of HarperCollins garnered more than 1,000,000 page views and led the industry to focus on the platform for awareness of books and authors.)

I was also instrumental in disseminating best practices for metadata for editors and marketers throughout the company, commissioned, edited, or wrote hundreds of pieces of web-optimized descriptive copy for frontlist and backlist releases.

In support of the Avon team, I provided bespoke coaching to their community of romance authors in social media and website optimization, and represented the corporate marketing team at various conferences.

Overseeing managing editorial for Disney Publishing Worldwide included leading a team of production editors responsible for the copyediting and proofreading of Disney-branded books for kids of all ages (picture books, middle grade, young adult, and coffee table books), managing global publishing schedules for global book releases, and the production of books for trade imprints for Hyperion Books for Young Readers.

As Managing Editor, I was responsible for publishing all hardcovers and novelty formats, including board books, picture books, middle grade, young adult, and specialty items, such as books packaged with crayons or baby booties or audio elements. In this role, I supervised a team of full-time and freelance resources dedicated to producing works of fiction and nonfiction of the highest quality, for mass market and trade channels.

At Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, I was responsible for publishing all of mass market paperbacks. This included works of contemporary and historical romance, science fiction and fantasy, mysteries and thrillers, as well as true crime, wellness, politics, and biographies and memoirs. Paperbacks for the Star Trek imprint, as well as popular series for teens and tweens (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Nancy Drew) also fell under my aegis.

In this managing editorial role, I worked with editors in the HarperMonogram imprint to produce contemporary, historical, and paranormal romance; the HarperPrism team who published science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, and pop culture, and the HarperPaperbacks group who focused on other mass market subjects such as mystery, thriller, true crime, western fiction, and women's fiction.