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Rachel Hockett - Editor
Ithaca, NY
Editor, writer, theater director, blogger, equality advocate, graduate of first class of women at Yale, and great lover of humanity.
Overview
A member of the first class of women at Yale University, I received my training in publishing in the engineering department of college textbooks at Prentice Hall, back in the day when in-house training was thorough, orderly, and invaluable.
With over forty years of publishing and editing experience, I am well qualified to help you with your next book--fiction, nonfiction, educational, trade. In short, if you wrote it, I can edit it!
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Director/Sole Proprietor
Rachel-Hockett.com
Freelance editor/writer/blogger, with an emphasis in social sciences, humanities, fiction, trade, and memoirs.
Director
Hockett Editorial Service
Managed the production of educational and trade books for many publishing companies.
Portfolio (4 selected works)
The Psychology of Women (PSY 477 Preparation for Careers in Psychology)
Margaret W. Matlin
This highly respected, best-selling book offers an enjoyable, extraordinarily well-written introduction to the psychology of women. Appropriate for readers from a wide variety of backgrounds, this comprehensive book depicts women's experiences through direct quotations and an emphasis on empirical research. Known for its balance of scholarship, readability, and inclusion of various kinds of wo... read more
This highly respected, best-selling book offers an enjoyable, extraordinarily well-written introduction to the psychology of women. Appropriate for readers from a wide variety of backgrounds, this comprehensive book depicts women's experiences through direct quotations and an emphasis on empirical research. Known for its balance of scholarship, readability, and inclusion of various kinds of wo... read more
Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World
David Gershon
If change is the mantra of our moment in history, Social Change 2.0 may be poised to become its bible. Drawing on his three decades in the trenches of large-scale societal transformation, David Gershon described by the United Nations as a graceful revolutionary, offers an original and comprehensive roadmap to bring about fundamental change in our world. So many of the assumptions we have been ... read more
If change is the mantra of our moment in history, Social Change 2.0 may be poised to become its bible. Drawing on his three decades in the trenches of large-scale societal transformation, David Gershon described by the United Nations as a graceful revolutionary, offers an original and comprehensive roadmap to bring about fundamental change in our world. So many of the assumptions we have been ... read more
O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare
Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Niall and Christine left their careers in New York City for a simpler, more authentic life in a cottage outside the tiny village of Kilmihil in County Clare. "Their tale is a delightful romance."—The New York Times Book Review
Niall and Christine left their careers in New York City for a simpler, more authentic life in a cottage outside the tiny village of Kilmihil in County Clare. "Their tale is a delightful romance."—The New York Times Book Review
Returning To My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine
Gail Straub
Gail Straub, a leader in the human potential field, had helped thousands around the world find meaning and purpose in their lives, all the while sensing that something fundamental within her was missing. Many years after the premature death of her mother, she undertook a period of soul searching and came to believe that, like her mother and so many women of our time, she had overcorrected in t... read more
Gail Straub, a leader in the human potential field, had helped thousands around the world find meaning and purpose in their lives, all the while sensing that something fundamental within her was missing. Many years after the premature death of her mother, she undertook a period of soul searching and came to believe that, like her mother and so many women of our time, she had overcorrected in t... read more
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