Ryan Boyle – Editor

• Production edit frontlist print hardcovers.
• Responsible for all copy in assigned fiction and nonfiction titles.
• Hire and review the work of freelance copy editors, proofreaders, and indexers.
• Handle the various tasks involving the production of print books, such as styling manuscripts; collating galleys; checking page proofs, inserts and blues; copyediting flaps; and reviewing jackets and bound galley materials .
• File for CIP data with the Library of Congress, for about 150 to 200 titles per year.
• Handle requests from other departments for book excerpts and PDFs.
• Review and transmit reprint corrections.

• Production edited frontlist print hardcovers, fiction and nonfiction.
• Hired and reviewed the work of freelance copy editors, proofreaders, and indexers.
• Handled the various tasks involving the production of print books, such as styling manuscripts; collating galleys; checking page proofs, inserts and blues; copyediting flaps; and reviewing jackets and bound galley materials .
• Oversaw and/or arranged e-book QCs for about 90 titles a year.
• Handled requests from other departments for book excerpts and PDFs.
• Reviewed and transmitted reprint corrections.

• Coordinate activities of editorial advisory boards and coordinate peer-review cycles for incoming manuscripts on five journals, The Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, The Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, The International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, The Journal of Computational Chemistry, and WIREs: Computational Molecular Science.
• Serve as point of contact among editors, authors, peer reviewers, and production editors.
• Ensure that all issues, articles, and other publication products are delivered to production editors in accordance with prescribed expectations regarding quality, style, page budget, and timeliness.

• Copy edit, proofread, and write liner notes for albums under production by the Numero Group, a record label specializing in discovering and historicizing lost soul, funk, folk, and power-pop.

Completed and forthcoming projects include:
• Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label. 3xLP liner notes [coauthored with Bob Mehr], June 2013
• Iasos, Celestial Soul Portrait. 2xLP liner notes, July 2013
• Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles. 2xLP liner notes [contributor], March 2014 —
(57th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominee for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package)
• Supa Chief, Red-Brained Woman. 45 liner notes, June 2014
• Local Customs: Cavern Sound. 2xLP liner notes, October 2014
• Music from the Mountain Provinces, 2xLP liner notes [editor], September 2014
• The Notations, I’m Still Here. LP liner notes, March 2015
• Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music. 2xLP liner notes [contributor], March 2016
• Joanna Brouk, Hearing Music. 2xLP liner notes, May 2016
• Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmare. 2xLP liner notes [contributor], September 2017 —
(60th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominee for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package)
• Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delight. 3xLP liner notes
[contributor], forthcoming
• Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label. 2xLP liner notes, forthcoming

• Commissioned manuscripts for General Dentistry, a peer-reviewed academic journal.
• Managed peer-review process and maintained publishing calendar.
• Acted as liaison among authors, freelancers, and in-house editorial and production departments.
• Edited and proofread manuscripts and articles in various proof stages for both General Dentistry and AGD Impact, a newsmagazine for dentists.
• Uploaded various articles to the AGD’s website, including materials for the online editions of General Dentistry and AGD Impact, the AGD Podcast, the e-newsletter AGD in Action, and the AGD’s blog The Daily Grind.