FREELANCE EDITOR AND CONSULTANT TO WRITERS, AGENTS, BOOK PUBLISHERS

Specializing in sympathetic, hands-on editing, revision, and detailed analysis of both fiction and nonfiction. Goal: commercial publication.

Forty years professional experience at top publishers, editing and acquiring in all fields. Concentration: Strategic commercial fiction, Thrillers and Mysteries, Literary, Serious and First Novels, True Crime, Health and Medicine; Psychology; Biography & Memoir; Cookbooks, Sports, Comedy (“best sense of humor in the biz”— try me!)

Authors worked with include:  Richard Condon, Norman Cousins, Heywood Hale Broun, Irving Howe, Samuel Shem (House of God), Gael Greene, Ishmael Reed, Baxter Black (renowned cowboy poet and novelist), Mary Ellen Pinkham, Max Frisch, Myron Sharaf, Hettie Jones, Chandler Brossard.

Some Highlights: Acquired and edited: first contemporary comic captions book (Captions Courageous); the now famous Prizzi series by Richard Condon; one of the best selling sex therapy volumes of the 70’s, Making Love, How To Be Your Own Sex Therapist; first successful Assertive Training volume: the multi-million-copy When I Say No, I Feel Guilty (still in print) and the wildly successful medical novel The House of God (four million copies, 25th anniversary).

Professional positions held:

Editor-in-Chief, Abelard Schuman

Executive Editor, The Dial Press

Editor-in-Chief, Richard Marek Publishers at G. P. Putnam’s Sons

Editor-in-Chief, St. Martin’s/Marek

Editor-in-Chief, E. P. Dutton

Editor-at-Large, Crown Publishers

Associations:

Womens Media Group, Board Member

Barnard Alumna Magazine, Board Member

Education:

Smith College, Barnard College, Phi Beta Kappa

Columbia University, Graduate School

Personal Publications:

Novels:

The Silent Slain (mystery)

Mountain of Villainy
 

Playboy (first woman published!)

Atlantic Monthly

Quarterly Review of Literature

Quixote

 

          Creative nonfiction:

The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Fuller list of authors, references and fee arrangements available on request. Telephone inquiries preferred.

Be sure to read:

Choosing Your Freelance Editor
by Joyce Engelson

Joyce Engelson 1160 Fifth Avenue, #402 New York, NY 10029-6934 Telephone 212-369-6604