Overview
Both as a freelancer and an in-house editor for several publishing houses, I have edited self-help and business titles on a variety of topics. I also have experience editing badly translated titles or works by non-native English speakers into premium English. More recently I have development edited genre fiction for Amazon's publishing imprints and for private clients.
"Nancy... is a valued resource partner for our company, Girl Friday Productions. She is an extremely skilled line editor, a thoughtful and diligent developmental editor, and an excellent writer. She's worked on a variety of projects for us--from a curriculum guide to a line edit of a novel to a developmental edit of a book proposal. Nancy is very conscientious and a pleasure to work with. I always trust that our clients will get the very best when they work with Nancy." --Ingrid Emerick, CEO/CFO, Girl Friday Productions
"Nancy worked with me on my book Whole Earth Economics [Endangered Economies], both helping to structure the project overall and also doing detailed editing. She made an immense difference! The result is a book that is much more focused and more coherent, with a clear theme throughout. And one that is also better written sentence by sentence. She was great to work with, and I’ll certainly work with her on my next project."
--Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Work experience
Self-employed
Since starting my own business in 1993, I have successfully completed projects for business and law school professors, consultancies, textbook publishers, magazines and newspapers, adult and children's trade publishers and direct marketing agencies. I am a quick study, facile in a variety of writing styles and topics, and my clients prize my ability to grasp the big picture and tease out a compelling narrative arc from complex source material and tangled narrative threads.
Seal Press
Developed and carried out marketing and publicity plans for twenty-five titles a year at this award-winning feminist literary press
Peter Bedrick Books
Developed and carried out marketing and publicity plans for 30 children’s and adult titles per year. Sold book club rights for 17 titles to major book clubs
Amacom Books, The American Management Association
Acquired 25 trade titles in the areas of managerial self-development, careers and small business management. Launched a series of ten “Little Black Books,” a series for refreshing managers’ basic business skills, which was adopted by all three business book clubs.