College Textbook Publishing

As Project Editor for Harcourt Brace, I managed 8–10 titles of foreign-language and social science books at various stages of production at one time. It takes many specialists such as authors, reviewers, developmental editors, cover and text designers, copyeditors, permissions editors, proofreader, indexers, and print shop staff to bring a textbook into print. As a proejct editor in the eye of the storm, I have worked with all the specialists in the trade. Eventually, I started juggling many freelance book projects on my own.

Copyediting

My specialties have been social sciences, liberal arts, pharmacy (5 years with The Annals of Pharmacotheraphy), and foreign languages (German, Spanish). After starting my freelance business, I have worked on numerous memoirs and novels. Aside from a thorough line edit for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and consistency, I also mark for repetition, omission, and contradiction. If the plot doesn’t hold, I will point it out. If an actor doesn’t stay true to character, I will let you know. And if a trope is too much of a stereotype, then I will suggest to dig deeper to bring on some novelty. Good writing is full of suspense and surprises.

BOOKS I HAVE WORKED ON

• Bell, Environmental Psychology, 4th Edition
• Hagerman, Fragil X Syndrome
• Garraty, A Short History of the American Nation
• Boyte, Building America
• Paxton, Europe in the Twentieth Century, 3rd Edition
• McLemore/Romo, Racial and Ethnic Relations in America
• Gregg Barak, Integrating Criminologies
• Yeates, The North American City, 5th Edition
• Chistians et al, Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, 5th Edition
• McQuade, Harper American Literature, 3rd Edition
• Quimby, Millennial Seduction
• Sevin/Sevin, Wie gehts?, 5th Edition