Kristy Gilbert Email & Phone Number

American Fork, Utah, United States

- Edit novels, short stories, and essays at various levels (developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading)- Design & typeset interior layouts and ebooks for Dragonsteel publications.- Establish and maintain Dragonsteel style guide and editorial handbooks.- Develop ongoing professional development and training for the department.- Manage scheduling, timelines, and processes for publications.

Utah, United States

Provide editing (ranging from manuscript evaluations to final proofreading) as well as book design (including cover design, typesetting, page layout, and ebook production). Clients include DC Comics, New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson, Wall Street Journal-bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg, Brian McClellan, various small presses & book packagers, businesses, independent authors, and academic professionals.Manage a team of talented subcontractors who also edit and design books.Develop marketing and content strategies for Looseleaf, including product development; writing website copy, product and service descriptions, blog posts, articles, booklets, and company training materials; social media strategy; and training classes for writing conferences.Work according to the following style guides depending on client needs: Chicago Manual of Style, APA, MLA, and AP.

Edit and typeset Charlie N. Holmberg's self-published titles; manage titles and metadata across Bowker, KDP, and Ingram Spark; hire and manage freelance editors for some projects; maintain mailing list and edit/format newsletter emails; organize Charlie's schedule; liaise with marketing, publishing, sales, and other partners.

Design & typeset interior layouts for the Year of Sanderson Secret Project novels; review line edits from freelancers; proofread laid-out text for the Secret Project novels; design ebook files for books released as audio originals.Lead editor for Secret Project #2.

Taught Introduction to Print Publishing, a course that covered foundational graphic design principles and how to implement them in printed projects using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Taught intermediate writing using a themed approach; emphasized strategies for reaching different audiences, effective uses of evidence, and distilling topics and arguments from large bodies of research.

Taught a substantive editing course for the BYU editing curriculum; focused on book editing for both nonfiction and fiction; used The Chicago Manual of Style.

Provo, Utah Area

Taught Introduction to Print Publishing, a course that covers foundational graphic design principles and how to implement them in printed projects using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Provo, Utah Area

Collaborated with an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional team to create a big data project analyzing fairy tales on television; coded instances of fairy tales on TV with Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) numbers and other identifying information; analyzed data reports for correlations, trends, and research questions; presented database and research using the database at the 2014 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting.

Provo, Utah Area

Copyedited scholarly articles in Chicago Manual of Style; laid out and typeset the journal in InDesign.

Provo, Utah Area

Ran the WordPress-based website AdaptationStudies.org under the direction of Dr. Dennis Cutchins; responsible for keeping HTML and CSS updated to the site's needs, promoting the site, and soliciting some content.

Provo, Utah Area

Graded assignments for ELang 430R, Editing for Publication (the capstone course for the undergraduate editing minor) under the direction of Dr. Mel Thorne; researched material for existing and future courses in the editing minor; taught some class sessions.

Remote / Telecommute

Edited theses, articles, and conference proceedings from students and faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. (Edited according to APA, Chicago, and in-house style guides.)

Provo, Utah

Wrote external communications: product descriptions, blog posts, company emails, newsletters, etc. Edited copy produced by others.

Provo, Utah

Published speculative fiction short stories and poetry semiannually; reestablished the publication schedule after four issues of late printings; maintained project workflow; coordinated the creation and implementation of an online storefront; managed an amazing volunteer staff.

Provo, Utah

Edited theses and dissertations for the dean's office. APA style.

Provo, Utah

Trained new staff members in all stages of the publication process, enforced publication deadlines, and popularized multidisciplinary scholarly articles for a general educated audience.

Provo, Utah

Coordinated redesign of the online issue; reviewed and edited creative nonfiction submissions.

Master Of Arts (Ma), English Literature/Folklore

Thesis: "Blogs, Books, & Breadcrumbs: A Case Study of Transmedial Fairy Tales."

Ba, English, Editing

Activities and Societies: Women's Cougar Rugby, Life the Universe & Everything Symposium

Education record

Activities and Societies: Swimming, water polo