Jeff Deck Email & Phone Number

Ghostwriting, Co-Writing, and EditingCurrent and past clients include: • Amy Law, We Got This, Kids (family memoir)• David Mauriello, Being Able (YA novel)• Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, The Three Sylvias (comedy adventure)• Stephanie Jennings, Flying in the Dark (fantasy romance)• Brad Herrick, A Long Walk South (travel memoir)• Kenn Scott, untitled historical novel• Steven Borne, Consuming Government (political nonfiction)• Dr. Gary Devore, A Murder of Crows on the Wall (historical mystery novel)Content Writer/EditorProving Ground (Boston, MA), March 2013 – June 2018• Work on a small team to create and edit content for 30+ training games that medical sales representatives play on an iPad to improve their skills. Each game builds 30+ skills in an area such as selling, productivity, customer interaction, business writing, or self-coaching• Create and edit content to market Proving Ground brand to clientsM|C Communications (Boston, MA), 2011 – 2013 • Edited syllabus and speaker slides content used at 30+ medical conferences per yearPreMediaGlobal (Plymouth, MA), 2011 – 2012• Copyedited 50+ academic journal articles for SPIE, the international society for optics and photonicsCapcom (Osaka, Japan), 2011• Edited and wrote hundreds of lines of in-game dialogue for major publisher’s video game, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, for the Xbox 360

Fiction: The Shadow Over Portsmouth novel series, 2018 – present; The Pseudo-Chronicles of Mark Huntley (2016); Player Choice (2015)• Released three books so far (City of Ports, City of Games, and City of Notions) in urban fantasy novel series about Divya Allard, an ex-cop who discovers gateways to other worlds and universes opening in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Book 4, City of Songs, will release in 2022.• Wrote supernatural thriller novel (The Pseudo-Chronicles of Mark Huntley)• Wrote sci-fi gaming adventure novel (Player Choice)• Writes romance novels under a pen nameNonfiction: The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time (Crown/Random House), 2008–2010• Wrote full-length narrative nonfiction book, The Great Typo Hunt, which has sold 20K+ copies and was a Boston Globe and Amazon bestseller and an Indie Next Notable pick• Covered by NPR, Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC World News, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, New Yorker, Salon, BBC, CBC, and many other outlets

Portsmouth, Nh

• Designed hundreds of pages and edited thousands of articles for 200+ issues of Seacoast Media Group newspapers (the daily Portsmouth Herald, biweekly Exeter News-Letter and Hampton Union, and weekly York Weekly and York County Coast Star)

Boston, Ma

• Proofread and assembled syllabus material for multiple medical conferences• Managed editorial production schedule for conference syllabi and presentation slides• Wrote marketing copy for promotional e-mails and letters; worked onsite at two conferences

• Traveled around the United States to find and correct typos in public signage• Maintained daily blog detailing typo-hunting: http://www.greattypohunt.com/typohunt.html• Received press coverage from NPR, ABC World News, Today Show, BBC, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, CBC, and dozens of other local, national, and international media outlets

Cambridge, Ma

Center for Global Change Science at MIT, Cambridge, MAAdministrative Assistant to Director, May 2006 – December 2007 Managed Director’s correspondence, calendar, travel, C.V., and telephone Handled work orders, supplies orders, printer/copier maintenance, filing, copying, faxing, mail distribution,deliveries, and other administrative tasks for office including Director, staff, and graduate students Organized materials for Director’s conferences and classes, proofread scientific reports, coordinated meetingsand lunches

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Collected and edited articles for ReVision, an academic journal; formatted articles and directed design• Edited and formatted articles for Rocks & Minerals magazine; edited and proofread layout• Managed contributors and peer review for ReVision and solicited content from consulting editorial boards