Overview
I'm a copy editor and proofreader with experience in book publishing (for Random House, Library of America, and individual authors), as well as in the entertainment industry and advertising. I thrive on dystopian/cyberpunk science fiction and supernatural urban fantasy, mysteries and noir, literary fiction, nonfiction, environmental sustainability, TV history, historical fiction, humor, and more! Beyond books, I also enjoy editing scripts, and am experienced in classical/choral vocal music.I think of myself as the bridge between an author and the audience, with arms outstretched to each riverbank. I love finding and suggesting fixes for word repetitions, am obsessively good at fact-checking, and have been known to create extensive style sheets. Most of all, if I take on a project, I care deeply about it and want to see it succeed.Education: B.A. Yale, film; M.A. UC Santa Barbara, film and media; 2018 fellow in the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop; copy editing course at NYU's Institute for Publishing.
Services
Non-Fiction
Entertainment
Political Science & Current Affairs
Fiction
Historical Fiction
LGBTQ Fiction
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Science Fiction
Urban Fantasy
Languages
English (US)
Work experience
Trailer Park and Team One / Saatchi & Saatchi
Jan, 2015 —
Present
For Trailer Park (a large entertainment advertising firm) and Team One (the luxury advertising division of Saatchi & Saatchi), I've worked on pieces for clients such as Participant Media, Sony Pictures, Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Orlando, the LA Rams, the LA Clippers, Alfa Romeo, Gooding & Company, Lexus, the Ritz-Carlton, and Electronic Arts. Also served as a copywriter, especially for descriptive or literary copy, branding, headlines, and titling projects.
Freelance for Random House, Library of America, individual authors
Jan, 2007 —
Present
Primarily for Random House's Vintage and Knopf/Doubleday imprints (while also doing some work for Library of America, an Overlook Press author, and a playwright), I've copy edited or proofread 24 books, including nonfiction, novels, stories, and humor writing. Closely reviewed, edited, and polished authors’ prose, corrected grammar and spelling, and extensively fact-checked. Work includes the O. Henry Prize story collection for 2013, two Jane Austen novels annotated with historical commentary, Joseph McBride's screenwriting guide Writing in Pictures, political humor from McSweeney's, Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift, Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph Adams's Robot Uprisings, and books by Stephen King, Otto Penzler, Benjamin Svetkey, Natalie Brown, Phillip Margulies, and David Goodis. Areas of work: the entertainment industry and screenwriting; media/literature crossover and adaptation; travel and politics; thriller, science fiction, and supernatural genres; historical fiction; new editions of classic literature.
Museum of Television & Radio, RiverRun Film Festival, Tribeca, IFP, and others
Jul, 2004 —
Jul, 2016
(about 12 years)
I've written and edited catalog copy, and/or programmed screenings, for the Museum of Television and Radio / Paley Center for Media, RiverRun International Film Festival, Santa Barbara LGBTQ Film Festival, UC Santa Barbara, the Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Feature Project, and the Morris B. Squire Art Foundation.
Portfolio
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantatio... read more
The pioneering, incisive, lavishly illustrated survey of noir on television―the first of its kindNoir―as genre, style, movement, or sensibility―has its roots in the hardboiled detective fiction of the likes of Hammett and Chandler; the works of these authors w... read more
In 1997 The Library of America's Crime Novels: American Noir gathered, in two volumes, eleven classic works of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s--among them David Goodis's moody and intensely lyrical masterpiece Down There, adapted by François Truffaut for his 1960 film... read more
An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this... read more
?Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position.? --Manning Marable W.E.B. DuBois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The So... read more
Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, The American Revolution brings together over 120 pieces by more than 70 participants to create a unique literary panorama of the War of Indepe... read more
This unique guide to one of the world’s most beloved tourist destinations combines fascinating articles by a wide variety of writers, woven throughout with the editor’s own indispensable advice and opinions—providing in one package an unparalleled experience o... read more
Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal Harbor, igniti... read more
Ford Madox Ford’s novel about the doomed Katharine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII, is a neglected masterpiece.Kat Howard—intelligent, beautiful, naively outspoken, and passionately idealistic—catches the eye of Henry VIII and improbably becomes his fifth wi... read more
When Kate and Colin meet at a party in Manhattan their connection is electric. They marry quickly, moving to the suburbs, and in the light of day they seem like any young couple, but the games they play after dark are far from routine.
Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great... read more
When Reuben Golding, a young reporter on assignment, arrives at a secluded mansion on a bluff high above the Pacific, it’s at the behest of the home’s enigmatic female owner. She quickly seduces him, but their idyllic night is shattered by violence when the ma... read more
A spectacularly vibrant, original debut, The Lovebird takes us from the orange-scented streets of Southern California to the vast prairie landscape of Montana, and introduces us to Margie Fitzgerald, a spirited and unforgettable heroine for our times. Margie h... read more
In the tradition of David Nicholls and Nick Hornby comes a hilarious, bittersweet, heartwarming debut novel about love of all kinds: first, unrequited, delusional, obsessive, and, ultimately, the kind that lasts.At 26, Maxwell Lerner thinks he has his whole li... read more
A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk. Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth vo... read more
A chill inducing and masterful collection of vampire tales, culled from the dark recesses of the nefarious and world renowned Vampires Archives. Coffins, the third volume in the mass market series, contains some of the best of the best of vampire fiction. Incl... read more
The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary Vampire Archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Many Many More. . . Fea... read more
From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey that makes her lighthearted satire of the gothic novel an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than... read more
This Revised and Expanded Edition contains hundreds of new notes and illustrations.The first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice w... read more
In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators ... read more
Writing in Pictures is a refreshingly practical and entertaining guide to screenwriting that provides what is lacking in most such books: a clear, step-by-step demonstration of how to write a screenplay.Seasoned screenwriter and writing teacher Joseph McBride ... read more
Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently m... read more
Ever since John Hancock broke into song after signing the Declaration of Independence, American politics and musicals have been inextricably linked. From Alexander Hamilton's jazz hands, to Chester A. Arthur's oboe operas, to Newt Gingrich's off-Broadway sexsc... read more
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