Jerry Gross
 

EDITORIAL SERVICES OFFERED BY
JERRY GROSS
 

A fiction and nonfiction generalist editor for over forty years, I do in-depth, problem-solving editorial critiques. Other editorial services include cutting, restructuring, rewriting, and line editing. I also develop, critique and edit fiction and nonfiction proposals. My editorial suggestions point out what works in the manuscript, and offer solutions to any problems I see. My comments are made in the margins of the manuscript, and then recapped in an accompanying report. I encourage questions and comments after the author receives the critique. My goals are to help the author write to the best of his or her ability, teach writing skills valuable not only for the current manuscript but for those to come, and to make the manuscript as effective and salable as possible.

I edit and critique all areas of mainstream fiction except category romances, westerns, Science Fiction and Fantasy and children’s books. I edit and critique all areas of nonfiction except finance, sports, religion and inspiration.

FICTION AREAS IN WHICH I SPECIALIZE: Commercial mainstream novels, historicals, YA fiction with a male protagonist, literary novels, gay fiction, mysteries, thrillers, espionage, adventure and other genres of male-oriented escape fiction.

NONFICTION AREAS: Memoirs, the art and craft of editing, writing and publishing, popular health, medicine, psychology, personal relationships, business psychology, politics, history, social issues, movies, TV, theater, print and other mass media.

I am the editor of EDITORS ON EDITING: WHAT WRITERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT EDITORS DO. Grove-Atlantic published the completely revised third edition of EOE in 1993. First published in 1962, it has become the standard work on trade book editing in our country, used in publishing, editing and creative writing courses and at writers’ conferences. In 1991 the book was published in Chinese in China and Taiwan, and is used to train editors at the Chinese Publishing Institute.

CAREER HISTORY: VP and Editorial Director of Paperback Library; VP and Editorial Director of Warner Books, VP and Associate Editor in Chief of New American Library, Editor in Chief of Everest Books, Senior Editor of Dodd, Mead & Company. During my career I created the Gothic Romance and Regency Romances as paperback categories (which endure to this day), created the first TV/Paperback tie-ins, and introduced Edgar Cayce and Georgette Heyer to paperbacks.

WRITER’S CONFERENCE APPEARANCES: When not editing and critiquing, I create and give presentations on editing and writing and publishing at writers’ conferences and universities.

SOME COMMENTS ABOUT MY EDITORIAL SKILLS FROM AUTHORS WITH WHOM I HAVE WORKED

“Jerry Gross provided editorial help, sage advice and cheerleading. He taught me how to write without telling me what to write. It is one of the most generous gifts I have ever received from another human being.”— Bruce Roseman

“My profound thanks and appreciation to Jerry Gross for his genius with plot and characterization, and for never settling for the simple solution.”
— Jan Neuharth

“I want to thank Jerry Gross, the Editor’s Editor, for his invaluable help in shaping and refining my writing, as well as playing the role of father and advisor.”— Anthony A. Goodman

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