Marie Mundaca Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, United States

New York

I design and compose book interiors using CSS and HTML! I'm working on some great upcoming books like Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin, Kelly Conaboy's The Particulars of Peter, and David Sedaris's The Best of Me. I created series designs for all the James Patterson adult titles.

Production and design for print and web-based publications.Writing, copyediting, and proofreading. Purchasing printing and other materials for small publishers and websites. Projects include This Is Water by David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown). Dorkismo by Maria Bustillos (Accidental Books), XKCD Vol 0 (Bread Pig), June by Rev. Jen (Art Star Scene Press)

I write in-depth criticism for general non-fiction and literary fiction books. Occasionally I write features and do author interviews.

Produce books and jackets for four-color, two-color and one-color books, such as Heirloom Cooking, The West Point Atlas of War series, Mad Science, and Broadway Musicals.Negotiate prices, select vendors, plan schedules, traffic materials, evaluate color proofs, and coordinate shipping from overseas vendors.Review files from freelance designers for proper set-up and accuracy.Administer Amazon and Barnes and Noble online projects.Hire and oversee in-house temps and freelancersSourcing vendors and printing marketing materials such as display headers, blads, and postcardsAccomplishments: Introduced several new vendors resulting in 10-20% savings over similar projects. Won New York Book Show Best of Category, Scholarly and Reference and Printing Industry Association of the South Best of Genre for The West Point Atlas pf War series. Completed entire production schedule for a four-book series, from scanning art and typesetting, to bound books, in under four months.

Produced books for Little, Brown and Back Bay adult titles, from manuscript to bound book.Provided art direction for book interiors and budget projections for book pricing.Selected and scheduled compositors, printers, freelance designers, illustrators, and mapmakers.Purchased components, such as printed endpapers, inserts, and printing for odd-sized titles.Issued and administered schedules for copyediting, editorial, and printersTrafficked art between editorial and color separators and conducted frequent bindery and press checks.Designed books and inserts and managed all responsibilities associated with book design, such as providing comp instructions, marking up manuscripts, and checking pages for design.Maintained electronic files for audio, e-books, and in-house archive.Accomplishments: Facilitated transition from Quark to InDesign. Produced "crash" titles such as The Beautiful Fall, John Dean's Worse Than Watergate, and A Salty Piece of Land. Dealt directly with high profile authors like Berkeley Breathed and David Foster Wallace.

Produced sales and marketing material, including point-of-purchase displays, posters, catalogs, postcards, and monthly sales pieces for Doubleday, Broadway, Nan A. Talese, and other imprints.Secured competitive bids from vendors and purchased printing, resulting in over 10% savings overall.Scheduled processes and designed, copyedited, and reviewed proofs for content and color.Managed an ongoing project consolidating book display information for online viewing making it easier to chose existing displays for books.

Produced four-color catalog. Orchestrated schedule, managed editorial process, and hired freelance copywriters, proofreaders, and indexers. Worked closely with art directors on design, electronic layout, pre-press (scanning color images for publication, color corrections, flight-checking, and reviewing printer proofs), print, and buying paper. Designed book covers and interiors and catalog and promotional design.Provided cover files and wrote and provided marketing content to online booksellers, such as amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Borders. Assisted extensively with the production of two web sites (watsonguptill.com and hart2draw.com), designed CD-ROM versions of catalogs, and maintained an archive for electronic files.Developed and implemented a marketing editorial style guide for in-house and freelance use.

Managed editorial production of a four-color consumer title, Natural History, including scheduling, extensive vendor contact, supervising editorial and production work flow, and all electronic pre-press. Estimated and purchased printing, designed and handled electronic pre-press for ads, brochures, and other promotional material.Designed, coded, and maintained the Natural History website, generated financial and budget reports, recommended hardware and software purchases, and trained new and temporary employees on technology.

Produced four-color trade titles. Scheduled all production activities, trafficked editorial and advertising material, and designed advertisements.

Ma, Art History, 3.98

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