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Senior managing editor for one of the nation's oldest publishing house, overseeing the schedules and day-to-day production operations of the publisher's wide list of bestsellers, fiction, nonfiction, and illustrated titles while managing and developing a small team of exceptional production editors.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Manage the Mulholland and Voracious imprints, creating book schedules, overseeing title metadata, and tracking project deliverables in collaboration with the editorial, art, production, sales, and marketing departments.Continue my previous work as production editor, managing the production of individual titles across the Little, Brown list. This includes creating schedules, hiring freelancers, and overseeing all aspects of production from manuscript to finished book.Serve on the Hachette ebook style committee and provide managing editorial input on company-wide digital initiatives and software trials.Telecommute from Los Angeles to Boston and New York.

Greater Boston Area

Digital project and workflow specialistCreate and oversee the production schedules for frontlist titles, often dozens at a time; track these titles from original manuscript submission to printed bookHire and manage freelance copyeditors, proofreaders, indexers, and other contractors and provide quality checks on their workCopyedit and proofread book elements when applicable, as well as the supplementary jacket/cover, publicity, and sales materials related to those titlesServe as electronic editing “super user” for the managing editorial department; train and provide troubleshooting support for colleagues with regards to all digital processes, navigating our in-house typesetting systeming, text style coding, and performing ebook QA reviews through various devices and platformsAdvise on development committee for in-house typesetting system; serve as managing editorial representative on company ebook innovation teamWork with IT to improve and develop managing editorial software, which includes editing, creating, and QA testing programs in the Microsoft VBA languageCollaborate with editorial, production, and art departments, as well as with outside authors, freelancers, agents, and vendorsUpdate or create procedural documentation

Greater Boston Area

Master'S Degree, Publishing And Writing

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English