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Megan Hustad - Editor
New York
I enjoy developmental editing almost as much as I love line editing. The collaboration is fun, and the results can be life-changing.
Overview
I've 15 years of experience in the book business. First I worked in editorial at Random House (now Penguin Random House), then at Basic Books and Counterpoint Press, where I got to work on a nice mix of literary fiction and nonfiction. Since venturing out on my own, my editing clients have included college presidents and U.S. Representatives, journalists and CEOs and chefs, plus the occasional friend who's written a children's book. What makes me effective is brutal honesty combined with a genuine, deep-seated desire to help people get their ideas across. You can expect equal parts encouragement and razor-sharp sentence rewrites (when needed).
Services
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Work experience
President
Wherewithal Press
Editor
The Perseus Books Group
Editorial Assistant
The Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Group (now Knopf Doubleday)
Portfolio (3 selected works)
Jesus Land: A Memoir
Julia Scheeres
Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen-years-old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s and their family has just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees, trailer parks, and an all-encompassing racism. At home are a distant mothermore involved with her church’s missionaries than her own childrenand a violent father. In this riveting and heartrending m... read more
Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen-years-old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s and their family has just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees, trailer parks, and an all-encompassing racism. At home are a distant mothermore involved with her church’s missionaries than her own childrenand a violent father. In this riveting and heartrending m... read more
The Suitors: A Novel
Ben Ehrenreich
Based loosely on 'The Odyssey', this novel focuses less on the Odysseus character (renamed Payne) than on the Penelope character (now Penny), following the eyebrow-raising exploits of her much-maligned, ill-fated suitors.
Based loosely on 'The Odyssey', this novel focuses less on the Odysseus character (renamed Payne) than on the Penelope character (now Penny), following the eyebrow-raising exploits of her much-maligned, ill-fated suitors.
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
Richard P. Feynman
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber---Richard P. Feynman was all these and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track--collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters--offers an unprecedented look at the writer and thinker whose scientific mi... read more
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber---Richard P. Feynman was all these and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track--collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters--offers an unprecedented look at the writer and thinker whose scientific mi... read more
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