Tricia Callahan – Editor

Copyedit graphic novels and literary fiction for middle-grade and YA readers.

Provided full-time coverage on the Thomas & Mercer and Little A lists as a temporary contractor. Worked closely with editorial, design, marketing, publicity, and operations as well as with external vendors to ensure Amazon Publishing's books reached market on schedule and at the highest quality level.

Provided full-time coverage on the Thomas & Mercer and Montlake lists as a temporary contractor. Worked closely with editorial, design, marketing, publicity, and operations as well as with external vendors to ensure Amazon Publishing's books reached market on schedule and at the highest quality level.

Copyedited and proofread book-length manuscripts and page proofs on a project basis. Provided production editorial services for publishing companies on a contract basis.

Directed the copyediting department for eight issues, hiring copy editors and proofreaders and approving edits to features, infographics, timelines, illustrations, and essays that won contests and recognition in The Best American Sports Writing series.

Copyedited and proofread range of fiction and nonfiction for young readers, including board books, picture books, Little Golden Books, coloring and activity books, chapter books, junior novels, and middle-grade and YA fiction and nonfiction.

Oversaw all aspects of production and operation, including conceptualizing features and soliciting short stories, performing substantive editing and copyediting, promoting and fund-raising, managing editorial and production staff of 20+, including hiring and training, liaising with authors, and publishing interviews with Ha Jin and Simon Van Booy as well as original stories by Ramona Ausubel, Kathy Fish, and others.

Oversaw and coordinated edits through production, from manuscript to bound book, of nonfiction (self-help, cooking, memoir, trivia, humor, inspiration) and fiction (historical romance, contemporary romance, paranormal romance, mystery) in trade and mass-market imprints Perigee and Berkley.