College Textbook Publishing
College textbook publishers re-group all the time. In the nineties I was Project Editor with Harcourt Brace in Fort Worth, Texas. I got used to managing 8 to 10 titles of foreign-language and social science books at various stages of production at one time. Perhaps hard to imagine, but bookish work can turn into quite a wild ride. It takes many specialists to bring a book together, from the writers and developers, across the intricacies of artistic design, to the final stage of proofs from the printers. Let's say, my job was in the eye of the storm, keeping all players coordinated, happy, and well on track of a relentless schedule. Remember the BBD? The bound book date? Believe me, it was chiseled in stone. That's why I was glad to "retire" to freelancing. So I have been juggling book projects under my own directives.
Developmental and Copy Editing
- Pluhar, Transl., Immanuel Kant, Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason
- Moser et al., Schemata-Lesestrategien
- Koepke, Die Deutschen
- Hager, Deutsch im Berufsalltag
- Deiner, Infants and Toddlers
- G. Barak, Integrating Criminologies
- Yeates, The North American City
- McLemore/Romo, Racial and Ethnic Relations in America
- . . . and many more. Please ask for a complete list
Proofreading, Indexing, Screenwriting
- Proofed numerous textbook titles in English, Spanish, and German
- Indexing
- Harvey Whitney Books, Therapeutics of the Elderly
- Harvey Whitney Books, The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2001
- Screenwriting
- Video sketches for, Bean/Sevin, Wie geht's?
Pharmaceutical Publishing
Opportunites come knocking where and when you least expect them. So I hired with Harvey Whitney Books in the year 2000 (until 2005) to work on high-caliber pharmaceutical articles. Aside from scientific publishing conventions I also learned more than I wanted to know about adverse drug reactions and interactions. My favorite category were the case studies. This job made me appreciate a good work environment, scientific abstracts, and my (can not take it for granted) physical health. I stayed with the Annals of Pharmacotherapy for five years until we relocated to Arizona.