Senior Production Editor
CurrentMember of the production department, working on trade fiction and nonfiction electronic and paper manuscripts. All steps from manuscript to blues, including deflagging, slugging, design coding, proofreading and proofreading evaluation, in-house copyediting, trafficking and coordinating, managing art logs, index review, liaise with in-house designers, organizing reprints, hiring freelance proofreaders, copyeditors, and indexers, checking jacket and cover copy, fact checking and line editing for style, consistency and content, creating schedules, maintaining databases and managing in-house freelance staff. *Served on committee that developed the Simon and Schuster Style Guide for Cookbooks and Food Books, which is used by authors and other editorial staff.*Imprints I work on besides Gallery Books include Atria Books, Howard Books, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, Enriched Classics, Pocket Star (ebook imprint), and Scribner. *Collaborate with a team of designers and editors to meet publishing deadlines on projects that span months or must be completed within a few weeks.*Imprint specialist for Enriched Classics, developed style guide for freelancers for this imprint.*Copyedit and proofread about 30 titles a year personally, within all genres of trade fiction and nonfiction. *Write design memos to assist design staff in preparing sample pages for authors to approve.
