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New York, New York, United States

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States

New York, New York, United States

Utilizing Callisto’s data-driven consumer model, developed, established, and directed editorial product creation into a nationally bestselling children's nonfiction books division, including new product development, series and brand building across age ranges, activity books, educational workbooks, and illustrated storybooks. Created a list with a focus on diverse and inclusive topics with an equally diverse list of authors and illustrators when building our business plan. Established efficient workflows while maintaining quality and budgets. Performed all duties of the Executive Editor as detailed below.

Emeryville, California, United States

Oversee the positioning, strategy, and content development of more than 150 nonfiction products a year, reviewed annual and individual title revenue opportunity prior to product launch for viability, and initiated new marketing plans and protocols for new category launch. Assign, position, and review consumer opportunity for all individual titles and series. Lead collaboration and process with design, production, sales, marketing, and other editorial teams as we continue to grow our categories within the children’s market. Review and assess data market research, identify consumer need, and draft title positioning and market opportunity. Plan, coordinate, and manage the work product of my editorial team, including reviewing authors and freelancers, and packagers to ensure quality control and timeliness of projects throughout the development and ongoing improvement of the production cycle. Manage a team of two Managing Senior Editors and ten editors overseeing their performance, content quality, workload, and title success in line with our data-driven model.

San Francisco, Ca

Promoted to supervise the overall list management of Chronicle Books’ Entertainment publishing group, approximately 80 projects a year, including bestselling pop culture titles and licensed properties for Lucas, DC Comics, Star Trek, HBO, and all Art of titles for Disney and Pixar feature movies, as well as board, strategy, and card games, and calendars. Manage and oversee career development of the Managing Editor for the Lifestyle pub group and the Managing Editor and Assistant Managing Editor of the Children’s pub group. Run executive Key Title meetings. Developed and implemented PDF galley digital workflow for proofreading as part of a major corporate initiative. Work closely with the Managing Editorial Director on special projects, packager and buy-in titles, and new publishing initiatives as they arise. Additionally responsible for all duties of Managing Editor listed below.

San Francisco, California

Supervise the overall list management of Chronicle Books’ Entertainment and Art publishing groups. Analyze and implement in-house procedures and communication, and actualize new publishing initiatives. Oversee and improve work procedures and day-to-day performance of editorial department, including maintaining and monitoring master list and schedules, in-house editorial standards, working with individual editors to ensure timely delivery of quality books and story development, and liaising with other managing editors and departments in-house to enhance editorial methods. Work with creative teams from concept to publication ensuring the delivery of unique, quality books, with an eye toward timely sales materials, budget, and publication date. Review, edit, and approve interior and cover galleys and proofs; final sign off on covers for print and catalogs plus review of catalog copy for all titles. Coordinate creation, review, and distribution of seasonal tipsheets and participate in seasonal pre-launch and launch meetings. Sign off on approval advances and freelancer invoices. Manage and oversee career development of Assistant/Associate Managing Editor.

New York, Ny

Responsible for the acquisition and development of 60 fiction manuscripts per year. Manage author relationships, read, evaluate, and work with authors to finalize manuscripts for publication. Work closely with marketing and sales to ensure that books meet the needs of target markets, specifically library and online sales. Negotiate author contracts, including advances, royalty rates, and licensing. In addition to standard editorial duties, responsible for the creation and maintenance of the publishing schedule, hiring and managing freelancers, and supervise an in-house staff of editors and interns. Oversee jacket design and hire artists, and coordinate subrights, and publicity. Launched Avalon’s ebook initiative and established the company's digital publishing presence. Relaunched the company's website and acted as web producer, managing all content. Established Avalon Books social media presence marketing our brand on Facebook and Twitter. Attend professional trade shows and conferences and take part in editor panels and lead author workshops. Acquired and edited the first RITA Award-nominated novel in the 60-year history of Avalon Books, The Ladies’ Room by Carolyn Brown.

New York, Ny

Managing Editor of medicine, bibles, and custom publications product lines. Supervisor to five Production Editors and their titles. Project management key contact for overseas and outside vendors ensuring that deadlines, products specifications, and budgets are met at all stages. Run status meetings and new title launches. Wrote and revised OUP’s company-wide Author Guidelines and act as key contact for outside vendors on communication, feedback, and relationship building. Acted as mini-team lead on the company-wide offshore project management initiative and devised and implemented training and strategies for its successful roll out. Trained staff on the content management system (CMS) and XML digital publishing processes. Disseminate workload reports, status reports, and monthly budget reports to the Vice President of editorial, design, and production. Hire and oversee freelance list of copy editors, proofreaders, and indexers with regular review of work quality and training in new technologies.

New York, Ny

Senior Managing Editor of Random House Children’s Books, Golden Books, Disney, Schwartz & Wade, and Golden Inspirational imprints and custom publishing list. Supervised two Managing Editors and one Associate Managing Editor and the quality management of their titles. Managed project schedules for editorial, production, design, marketing, and sales. Introduced and helped to develop new license lines, projects, and book formats. Run bi-weekly status meetings and attend Executive Committee meetings, Managing Editorial forums, sales, and print order meetings. Hired and trained staff and implement procedures and workflow processes as instituted by the Managing Editorial Director and acted as department head in her absence. Additionally responsible for all duties of a Managing Editor as listed below.

New York, Ny

Managed the editorial and art schedules for over 60 new titles a year for Random House Children's Golden Books imprint. Managed seasonal lists, communicated pertinent information to production, editorial, design, marketing, and inventory. Interacted with outside vendors and major licensors on properties for Mattel, Nickelodeon, and Disney to help develop new formats and novelty items, and launched new brands into the market. Contribute to editing manuscripts, artwork, jacket, and marketing and catalog copy. Reviewed contract requests and input all data, schedules, book specs, sales and marketing information. Technical administrator for Random House's Title Information System, successfully supervised and trained users in maintaining information about their title data for reports accessed by all departments. Was also responsible for editorial development and production of all custom proprietary and special sales titles.

New York, Ny

New York, Ny

New York, Ny

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New York, Ny

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