Overview
I began my publishing career as an award-winning sales representative (covering all academic disciplines) and sponsoring editor (math and statistics) for McGraw-Hill's College Division. As editor, I took a list in free fall and led it to one of the premier spots in the industry. My responsibilities including proposal and competitive analysis, list management, and review analysis. I acquired new titles, renewed old ones, developed comprehensive supplements programs, analyzed reviews, helped my authors develop complete and consistent pedagogy, and collaborated with the production team all the way through printed books and supplements.
Since leaving McGraw-Hill in 1990, I have been a freelance editor for a variety of publishers. My responsibilities have ranged from tasks similar to my McGraw-Hill role to developmental and line editing, copy editing, proofreading, and indexing as well as writing.
I managed Worth Publishers' math list in the early 1990s. For American BookWorks, I developed and edited over two dozen titles of the HarperCollins College Outline Series, including titles in art and music, social sciences, history and government, mathematics, business and economics, and language arts. For Wiley, I developed college texts, mostly in accounting.
From 1998 to 2016, I was the main developmental and copy editor for Industrial Press, working very closing with the editorial director and head of production. I edited over 70 books for professionals, managers, and students in industry and manufacturing, in areas such as reliability and maintenance, machine shop strategies, cultural change, CNC programming, welding, math and statistics, inventory, materials science, cutting tools, best practices, and more.
I also co-wrote four editions of The Kids' College Alamanac: A First Look at College, an award-winning book written primarily for middle school and early high school students. As a result of this experience, as well as other writing experiences, I fully appreciate the author's perspective. I'm also strong at writing to spec.
I am a strong advocate for my authors and am fully committed to helping them communicate their information clearly to the target audience. One of my particular strengths is helping authors transform material developed for presentations given before live audiences into equally clear information that must stand alone for remote readers the author will never meet.
I look forward to helping you reach your audience with clarity and style.
Services
Non-Fiction
Languages
Awards
- Family Channel Seal of Quality Award
Work experience
Self-employed
Over the past three decades, I have provided a wide range of editorial services to many clients, including:
CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING (2017-2018)
● Edited articles and columns, and wrote monthly column, for monthly print and online magazine published for the metalworking industry.
INDUSTRIAL PRESS (1998-2016)
● Lead developmental and copy editor for over 70 titles, working closely with the editorial director and production manager
● Titles included Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices (Gulati); Machine Shop Trade Secrets (Harvey); Handbook of Maintenance Management (Levitt); Successfully Managing Change in Organizations (Thomas); A New Strategy for Continuous Improvement (Slater); Appraising Management Performance (Moncrief and Curran); Effective Maintenance Management (Narayan); Total Production Maintenance (Wireman); Production Spare Parts: Optimizing the MRO Inventory Asset (Moncrief et al.); The Art of Sculpture Welding (McCoy); CNC Tips and Techniques (Smid); Programming of CNC Machines (Evans); Commercial Steel Estimating (Olsen); Die Design Fundamentals (Boljanovich and Paquin); Is My Machine Okay? (Perez and Conkey); Metalworking: Sink or Swim (Lipton); Statistics for Quality Control (Jackson); Trigonometry for Engineering Technology (Jackson)
JOHN WILEY AND SONS (2005-2010)
● Analyzed and developed college text books in accounting, nutrition, statistics, personal finance, and other disciplines. Line edited manuscripts. Provided competitive analysis for new projects under consideration
● Titles included Cost Management (Eldenburg and Wolcott); Managerial Accounting (Balakrishnan, Sivaramakrishnan, and Sprinkle); Auditing and Assurance Services (Hook)
GERSON PUBLISHING COMPANY and JIST PUBLISHING (1995-2005)
● Co-author (with Barbara Greenfeld) of four editions of The Kids College Almanac: A First Look at College, winner of The Family Channel Seal of Quality Award
● Production manager, marketer, and publisher of the first edition
WORTH PUBLISHERS (1991-1994)
● Acquisitions editor and project manager for mathematics list
● Signed and developed both new texts and revisions of existing texts
● Signed, managed, and edited a variety of supplements including study guides, answer keys, computerized test banks, videotape series, and graphing calculator tutorials
AMERICAN BOOKWORKS / HARPERCOLLINS (1990-1993)
● Developed and edited over two dozen books in the HarperCollins College Outline Series
● Titles included British History, 4e (Schulz); The Constitution of the United States, 13e (Spaeth and Smith); Elementary Algebra (Dykes); English Grammar (Daniels and Daniels); Harmony and Voice-Leading (Williams); Introduction to Art (Jones); Introduction to Business (Colby and Alkon); Introduction to Sociology (Goodman); Introduction to Statistics (Wagner); 20th Century United States History (Preston); and others
ADDITIONAL CLIENTS (1990-2018)
● Other clients through the years have included Visual Educations (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill), Momentum Press; Momentum Press;; Appleton and Lange; The South-Western Company, Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association; and more.
Experienced with both Chicago and AP styles, as well as customized styles.
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