Overview
I'm a creative services provider specializing in working with authors and other independent creators since the turn of the century. I bring creative endeavors to fruition, to market, and to an audience: a to z, soup to nuts.
As a pioneer indie author (2005) and podcaster (2004), as well as one of the first to offer a free podcast of their novel, couple with my experience developing marketing, viral campaigns, and websites for television and motion pictures (Bridesmaids, Grease Sing-Along, Machete, etc.), I have a unique dual perspective: I understand the artistic side, and the promotional side.
This point of view brings clients back again and again. I've worked on every book published by the memoirist Paul Samuel Dolman (five books and counting), Glenn Harris' McCall - Malone Mysteries series (seven books and counting), and Cay Templeton's Second Side series (four books and counting).
My ability to take an author from developmental edit to booking interviews to promote a book's release attracts debut authors as well. My technical and procedural experience with every stage means you get someone at your side every step of the way -- someone who's been there themselves, from the beginning.
Reedsy won't let me list more than one variety of service... but if it involves getting your book from manuscript to market, including developmental editing, website, mailing list, social media, ebook and paperback design, and publication and promotion assistance... I'm your guy.
Let's make the best stuff you can make... together.
As a pioneer indie author (2005) and podcaster (2004), as well as one of the first to offer a free podcast of their novel, couple with my experience developing marketing, viral campaigns, and websites for television and motion pictures (Bridesmaids, Grease Sing-Along, Machete, etc.), I have a unique dual perspective: I understand the artistic side, and the promotional side.
This point of view brings clients back again and again. I've worked on every book published by the memoirist Paul Samuel Dolman (five books and counting), Glenn Harris' McCall - Malone Mysteries series (seven books and counting), and Cay Templeton's Second Side series (four books and counting).
My ability to take an author from developmental edit to booking interviews to promote a book's release attracts debut authors as well. My technical and procedural experience with every stage means you get someone at your side every step of the way -- someone who's been there themselves, from the beginning.
Reedsy won't let me list more than one variety of service... but if it involves getting your book from manuscript to market, including developmental editing, website, mailing list, social media, ebook and paperback design, and publication and promotion assistance... I'm your guy.
Let's make the best stuff you can make... together.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Fiction
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Mashups
Mystery & Crime
Plays & Screenplays
Science Fiction
Languages
English (US)
Works with
Squarespace
Wix
WordPress
Awards
- Parsec Award Nomination (2005)
- Key Art Award Selection (2011)
Work experience
Self-employed
Jan, 1999 —
Present
Through my Southern California-based creative services consulting company, I help authors, podcasters, musicians, and other independent creators, entrepreneurs / solopreneurs, small businesses, and anyone looking to bring their story to fruition and to the world.
For over twenty years, I’ve drawn from a lifetime of dual experience as a creator and marketer to bring a service-based, customer- and user-focused perspective to solving your problems and telling — or helping you tell — your story, however you choose to tell it.
Portfolio
Boomer the bison might wish he had other bison friends and family, but he does have a lot of fun with his different prairie pals! When trouble comes prowling, Boomer discovers something specia... read more
Copy Editing
Editorial Assessment
Nightmares come in many forms. Some rend the veil of sleep with heart-stopping madness. Others defy sanity to leave a helpless corner of your mind twitching for release. Sometimes, hours after... read more
Copy Editing
Forty years ago, Eddie was an astronaut poised to be one of the blessed few to walk on the Moon, but budget cuts and the shifting whims of politics denied him the only dream to bring meaning t... read more
Copy Editing
Proofreading
From the seventeen-time award-winning author of Celldweller's Blackstar novel -- Joshua Viola -- comes the Limited Second Edition of The Bane of Yoto.What's new in the Second Edition?• Revised... read more
Developmental Editing
After a decorated career fighting battles that would become linchpins of history, Captain Myles Keogh decides his next campaign will be his last. Civilian life – and a love he never dared hope... read more
Book Coaching
This is the 2nd book of the Stalked Trilogy. Jack is back and he has come for what is rightfully his!
Isabella has made her story known to the world as the ever-famous “Cinderella.” Once she was made Queen, no one dared to question her fantastical tale.More importantly, no one ever asked her evil stepmother, the Countess De Leon, what really happened in the ho... read more
The 1st of the Stalked Trilogy, Lady Sarah Levine was just a young noble woman from the farm town of Ditrum. When an invitation is issued from the Duke Emrick of Baldwin for all the available maidens to attend a festival he is hosting at his castle. Being from... read more
On her deathbed, Beast's governess makes him promise to save her spoiled daughter, Beauty, from herself. Beast is convinced that he can reform the cantankerous Beauty, and fall in love with him, saving him from his own curse of being a beast. This does not bod... read more
It's a critical time in both the relationship and partnership of Clint McCall and Devon Malone. Malone has accepted McCall's proposal and they pick up one of their oddest cases ever: a client wants them to reassure her that her son is not a dangerous psychopat... read more
This is the long-awaited prequel to the series, the origin story of the McCall-Malone partnership! Portland PI Clint McCall runs into–and up against–Portland Police Detective Sergeant Devon Malone as they race to find a kidnapped young girl who may be in the h... read more
The fifth book of the McCall-Malone Mystery series! As they try to cope with their own relationship, the past comes around to haunt both Clint McCall and Devon Malone: an old foe seeking revenge on McCall and an estranged relative seeking help from Malone. Mea... read more
Once again McCall and Malone are in jeopardy as they very tentatively explore a relationship. A young man named George Heatherly wants the two Portland, Oregon, private investigators to simply look into the finances of a local charitable organization involving... read more
Private investigators Clint McCall and Devon Malone are just getting comfortable with their new agency when McCall suddenly finds himself on the run from the police, accused of sexual assault, kidnapping, and possibly murder. A new player is in town and he’s d... read more
Clint McCall and rival PI Devon Malone are together again, this time on a case that grows from the embarrassing but minor theft of a friend’s key ring to a series of killings and kidnappings that could include one or both of them before they’re done. If that’s... read more
In this combination old-fashioned detective novel and modern romantic thriller, Portland (Oregon) private detectives Clint McCall and Devon Malone each have a client who wants to catch a cheating spouse—and the clients are married to each other! That should be... read more
Paul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents with special guest journalist and author Bill Moyers. Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Go... read more
From spiritual hitchhiker Paul Samuel Dolman comes the fourth installment of his reflective and whimsical memoir series that began with the best-selling Hitchhiking With Larry David. After bidding farewell to the lush, sun-soaked beaches of Maui, Dolman finds ... read more
From multi-talented author and polymath Paul Samuel Dolman comes "Seven Crazy Days On Maui," the follow-up to the humorous memoirs "Hitchhiking With Larry David" and "Martha's Vineyard Miracles."Amidst the scenic beauty of Maui, Dolman reunites with his old fl... read more
From multi-talented author and polymath Paul Samuel Dolman comes "Martha's Vineyard Miracles," the follow-up to the 2010 beloved humorous memoir "Hitchhiking With Larry David." He's reunited with the girl of his dreams. He's on a mission (quite possibly divine... read more
One bright summer day on Martha's Vineyard, the author Paul Samuel Dolman stuck out his thumb, and the comedic icon Larry David pulled over and asked, "You're not a serial killer or something, are you?" This seemingly insignificant encounter set in motion a se... read more
