Wesley Salazar – Editor

Freelance editor, writer, and content distribution expert with extensive experience in both short-form and book-length material.

- Produced a wide variety of compelling book-inspired content as the editor of Brightly.
- Worked with contacts at internal (Penguin Random House) and external (Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, etc.) publishers to obtain exclusive author content, interviews, and other book coverage.
- Managed Brightly’s daily production calendar and planned long-term editorial and promotional strategies, and seasonal tentpole initiatives.
- Line edited all of Brightly’s content and marketing campaigns—including articles, editorial packages, social media posts, emails, and ads—with an eye for consistent style, grammar, and tone.

- Worked on publicity and marketing campaigns for authors such as Ross Ritchell (THE KNIFE), David Mark (SORROW BOUND and TAKING PITY), Daniel Pyne (FIFTY MICE), and Annabelle Gurwitch (I SEE YOU MADE AN EFFORT), as well as books by the late Michael Hastings (THE LAST MAGAZINE) and Stuart Scott (EVERY DAY I FIGHT).
- Wrote publicity materials for nonfiction and fiction titles, and pitched coverage to print, broadcast, and online media.
- Managed the publisher’s social media accounts, collaborated with authors to amplify their platforms, and coordinated author tours and events.
- Maximized marketing best practices and tested new promotional initiatives.
- Edited original author content for media.
- Read and evaluated new fiction and nonfiction manuscript submissions for the publisher's editorial team to help determine their market viability.

- Reviewed editorial content, workshopped articles with contributors to develop contributors’ individual writing voices, pitched content ideas, and wrote articles, including book reviews, for the news and culture website.
- Edited a weekly newsletter and two editions of Bushwick Daily’s print magazine, Bushwick Notebook.