Rachel Monaghan Email & Phone Number

Greater Nashville Area

• Perform developmental editing, copyediting, or proofreading on book manuscripts and journal articles using Microsoft Word tracked changes, Adobe Acrobat annotations, or hard copy.
• Manage book projects throughout all stages of the production process, including coordinating with authors and contractors, creating and updating production schedules, and performing quality checks.
• Collaborate with book production packagers to establish production workflows, style guides, and templates for new publishing clients.

Provide developmental editing, copyediting, production editing, and proofreading for consumer and professional books on computer programming, security, hacking, alternative operating systems, STEM, and LEGO.

• Managed full-time in-house production staff and external contractors. Responsibilities included overseeing production on 40+ new titles and 100+ reprints annually, liaising with and evaluating printers and other.
• Collaborated with other departments to set priorities, deliver sales and marketing assets, and resolve scheduling or editorial issues.
• Served as production editor on 10–15 book projects annually, performed page reviews and final checks, and approved digital or hard proofs.
• Refined back cover copy and coordinated cover design and illustration process.
• Led production discussions and drove process, documentation, and workflow improvements.
• Interviewed, onboarded, and trained new production employees and contractors.

Provide full suite of production services for clients including Berrett-Koehler, CAST, North Atlantic Books, Red Wheel/Weiser, Hoover Institution Press, and self-published authors.

Copyedited books on education practice, policy, and scholarship under the Harvard Education Press imprint.

Copyedited, proofread, and managed production for books and online articles on programming and computer technology.

Copyedited articles for the Journal of Consumer Research, a peer-reviewed academic journal that explores consumer behavior as it relates to psychology, marketing, sociology, economics, communications, and anthropology.

Greater Boston Area

• Managed 20–25 professional and consumer technology books annually (creating production schedules, shepherding projects from launch through publication, copyediting or proofreading books as needed).
• Performed final quality checks on colleagues’ projects before publication.
• Coordinated with authors and internal departments (design, illustration, marketing, editorial, and manufacturing) to resolve queries, develop and route back cover copy, and establish print vendors and publication dates.
• Collaborated with Managing Editor and Production Manager to assess specific book needs and assign appropriate production editor.
• Trained and mentored new hires.
• Helped establish and document book production workflow for new partnership with Microsoft Press.

Greater Boston Area

• Managed 10–15 professional and consumer technology books annually.
• Coordinated with authors and internal departments to resolve queries, develop and route back cover copy, and establish print vendors and publication dates.
• Copyedited, proofread, and performed first- and second-pass quality checks on books before publication.
• Copyedited and published online articles for the O’Reilly Network (which included LinuxDevCenter.com, MacDevCenter.com, WindowsDevCenter.com, ONLamp.com) and Make magazine’s website.

Greater Boston Area

• Copyedited and proofread professional and consumer technology books.
• Performed first- and second-pass quality checks on books before publication.
• Researched and wrote colophons for O’Reilly’s iconic Animal series.

Greater Boston Area

• Performed general editorial tasks such as ordering ISBNs, applying for CIP data from the Library of Congress, researching competing titles, organizing current contracts and errata files, and preparing art manuscripts.
• Secured reviewers for math textbook manuscripts; compiled review summaries; monitored check requisitions for author/reviewer payment.