Michael Denneny works on fiction and non-fiction manuscripts for publishers, literary agents and authors, doing structural work on manuscripts, complete line editing, and ghost writing, as well as helping with the preparation of book proposals.

In fiction, he has worked with Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (Anya), Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls; Betsey Brown), J. California Cooper (Some Soul To Keep), Ernestro Maestre (The Lazarus Rhumba), and Rabih Allemeddine (Koolaids). In mystery fiction, he has edited Linda Barnes, Joan Hess, Steven Saylor, Barbara Neeley and Eliot Pattison, among many others.

In non-fiction, he is particularly interested in history and current affairs (Neufeld and Berenbaum’s The Bombing of Auschwitz, Fred Jerome’s The Einstein File, George Friedman’s The Future of War, Randy Shilts’ And The Band Played On and Conduct Unbecoming) as well as memoirs (Lars Eighner’s Travels with Lizbeth) and biography (David Macey’s Frantz Fanon, G. Gordon Liddy’s Will, and Mr. T. by Mr. T). He is interested in virtually all forms of non-fiction except cookbooks and travel books.

He was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Editing in l993, the Literary Market Place Editor of the Year Award in l994, and The Publishing Triangle Editor’s Award in 2002. His books have won numerous citations (an American Book Award to Judith Thurman’s Isak Dinesen, the American Mystery Award for Best Private Eye Novel for Linda Barnes’ A Trouble Of Fools; an Edgar Award For Best First Novel for Eliot Pattison’s Skull Mantra), as well as appearing on bestseller lists (G. Gordon Liddy’s autobiography Will, Randy Shilts’ And the Band Played On).
 

And What Is a Free-Lance Editor
by Michael Denneny

A Few Words on Book Proposals
by Michael Denneny