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Editorial Services
LINE EDITING, REWRITING OR COLLABORATION
I
will evaluate and report
on fiction and non-fiction manuscripts. I will also
help put together book proposals. Special areas of
interest: Military history and memoirs, general
history and autobiography, intelligence and foreign
policy, science and business. Fiction: thrillers and
male-oriented. I do not handle illustrated books.
I will
undertake work on manuscripts, helping to resolve
structural problems, work on line-by-line revision
and rewrites as well as (in novels) work with author
on characterization, dialog, pacing, etc. I do not
represent authors in submissions to or negotiations
with publishers. I undertake collaboration in
non-fiction only.
Since my
retirement from Random House in 1996 I have worked
as an independent editor and ghostwriter.
I edit books
in all major non-fiction areas with the exception of
certain how-to areas like cooking, etc. Roughly half
of what I work on is fiction.
Ghostwriting
assignments have included books on business and
science as well as biography and autobiography.
I will
negotiate a comprehensive fee and specify in a
letter agreement what editorial or writing work I
will do and when it will be completed.
Before
agreeing to work on any work of fiction or
non-fiction I ask to see an extensive sample of the
manuscript. (I do not charge for looking over a
manuscript. I ask to see it to determine whether or
not my working on the book will enhance its chances
of being published and to estimate the amount of
time required for the editorial work, based on the
type of editing I think is necessary. In the case of
fiction I prefer to see the full manuscript. In all
cases I ask that return postage be included with the
manuscript sent to me.)
I work
directly with authors, agents, and editors at a wide
range of publishing houses. My particular areas of
interest are: history (including military history)
and biography, business and economics, science and
technology. I edit all types of fiction, prepare
book proposals and write editorial evaluations of
manuscripts.
Since I
guarantee absolute confidentiality to all authors,
agents, and publishers I am not at liberty to
discuss books I have worked on as an independent
editor. I can mention books in which my editorial
work has been acknowledged in the printed book.
(Works of fiction seldom contain acknowledgments,
for obvious reasons.) I will be glad to send you a
list of those books in which I am acknowledged.
I can’t
estimate the time required for editing until I see
the manuscript
EDUCATION
Harvard College,
A.B. magna cum laude, 1962
EXPERIENCE
Forty years in
publishing with experience in text, professional and
scholarly publishing as well as general trade.
Please see detailed information below. For a list of
books and authors with whom I have worked, please
contact me by phone or fax.
POSITIONS HELD
1982-1995 Crown Publishers,
Inc./Random House, Inc.
Executive Editor,
Vice President (1985-1995)
Editorial Director,
Orion Books (1990-1994)
Senior Editor
(1992-1985) (VP from 1988-)
1978-1982 Rawson, Wade Publishers,
Inc.
Executive Vice
President
1974-1978 Wade
Publishing Co., Inc. Founder and
President
Co-published books
under imprints with The Dial Press and
Dell.
1971-1974 David
McKay Co., Inc.
Editorial Director
and Vice President
1969-1971 World
Publishing Co., Inc.
Editor-in-Chief
1965-1969 The
Macmillan Co., Inc.
Senior Editor
1963-1965 Blaisdell
Publishing Co., Inc.
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