Overview
More than 25 years of experience as an editor and writer have made me intimately familiar with the experience on both sides of the publishing desk, so I can dive in wherever you are – concept development, book proposal, manuscript, and everywhere in between – to help you develop and refine your project for whatever audience you want to reach.
Services
Non-Fiction
Languages
Awards
- Two-time IACP award nominee
- James Beard award nominee
Certifications
- Stanford Introduction to Food and Health course certificate
Work experience
Self-employed
• Edit and write cookbooks and health and lifestyle books
• Project manage, liaising among (as necessary) author, editor, photographer, illustrator, and other staff
• Develop and test recipes
• Assess and develop proposals and query letters
Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
• Acquired and edited original titles for the Scribner Paperback Fiction, Fireside, and Touchstone Trade Paperback imprints in various categories including parenting, health, cooking, and fiction
• Acquired outside hardcover titles for reprinting in Trade Paperback
• Managed paperback conversions from the Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and Free Press imprints
Scribner
• Edited cooking, self-help, and fiction titles, including novels translated from the French
Scribner
• Managed all aspects of the complete revision of "Joy of Cooking," working with editor Maria Guarnaschelli and more than 150 contributors
• Editorial liaison with the publishing, managing editorial, production, design, copyediting, and publicity departments
• Edited writers’ contributions, incorporating hundreds of disparate parts into a cohesive whole
Portfolio
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Lee H.
Oct, 2018
