David C. Felts Email & Phone Number

Manage Books Production staff, ensuring their projects uphold quality standards and meet to-press deadlines and the production editors meet annual department objectives. Write and administer annual performance reviews for my reports. Serve as the Production point person for College and Corwin acquisitions editors, content development editors, and editorial assistants, helping address pretransmittal queries that affect Production. Represent Production on Reference books matters. Represent Production in strategy meetings with other departments. Create new and improve upon existing departmental procedures in order for our department to run more efficiently and manage increased workloads.

Felts Editing provides copyediting and proofreading services to publishers and authors. Our clients depend on us to deliver exceptional quality on time and to spec, while maintaining superb author care, flexibility, and professionalism.We specialize in editing scholarly writing, both in book and journal form, and creative writing. We work on 1-, 2-, and 4-color projects with no to heavy art programs. In books, we are happy to edit monographs, trade books, textbooks, single volume and multivolume encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, novels, novellas, and short story collections. In journals, we work on full issues down to individual articles.

Designed marketing material and coordinated its dissemination. Assisted fellow directors in the coordination of the annual conference, the SCE Winter Theory Institute.

Directed the day-to-day operations of the bimonthly magazine (6 issues, 192 pages per year), specializing in reviews of published works of fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism from small, regional, university, ethnic, avant-garde, and women’s presses. Created and implemented the production schedule. Identified and interviewed press editors/publishers for feature in each issue. Assigned book reviews to identified scholars. Selected reviews and arranged them in each issue. Copyedited, fact checked, proofread, and typeset issues. Guided contributors (about 180 annually) and their pieces through the production process. Managed submissions, coordinated contributors, and liaised with off-campus associate and contributing editors. Worked with printer to maintain quality control. Created, oversaw, updated, and managed all material on the website. Renovated and maintained social networking profiles. Scheduled and created work assignments and supervised undergraduate interns, graduate assistants and interns, and administrative assistant. Assisted editorial board in book selection and evaluation and assigned deadlines. Answered general email queries. Maintained contacts and book log databases. Managed all subscription information, payments, claims, complaints, and inquiries for all subscribers internationally. Coordinated the mailing of each issue. Assisted preparation of grant applications. Created and published index of reviews printed within each volume year. Compensated contributors. Designed and disseminated marketing material. Assisted coordinating UHV/ABR Reading Series’ public lectures and private receptions (8–10 authors annually). Requested review copies from presses. Attended the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference.

Directed the day-to-day operations of the biannual scholarly journal (approximately 400 pages annually). Met deadlines, managed submissions, assigned book reviews, coordinated contributors, guided contributors (about 50 published authors per issue) and their pieces through the production process. Obtained peer reviewers for article submissions. Copyedited, fact checked, proofread, and conformed articles to house style. Typeset each issue. Supervised interns and administrative assistant. Solicited ads. Maintained contacts and submission databases. Updated the website. Worked with Project MUSE to disseminate issues to online subscribers. Requested review copies. Directed marketing. Collaborated with printer to produce physical copies of each issue.

Tutored graduate and undergraduate papers, with an emphasis on business and professional writing, both online and face to face. Trained, mentored, and evaluated fellow tutors. Read and assessed various types of compositions across multiple disciplines. Participated and instructed in continuing tutor education and training. Researched and wrote several handouts on the writing process. Researched and wrote grammar tips of the week. Wrote and gave presentations to graduate and undergraduate students on various writing techniques.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Interdisciplinary Studies

Activities and Societies: Rosebud Film Society

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English