John -- Freelance Editor

John worked as a manuscript editor for 15 years for Penguin USA, and parlayed that extensive hands-on experience into a very successful career as a freelance editor. In editing over 600 titles, he worked with both big-time authors and first-timers, from developmental editing to line editing/rewrites. In the ultra-competitive world of publishing today, his editing is proving to be the extra edge that authors need to attract agents and editors. He usually work in two phases with authors: first a developmental, or structural, stage, and then a line-editing stage.

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FICTION
ReShonda Tate Billingsley, CAN I GET A WITNESS?; THE DEVIL IS A LIE (Pocket, inspirational)
Jane K. Cleland, LETHAL LEGACY (St. Martin's, mystery)
Lexi Davis, THE AFTERWIFE (Pocket, romance)
Eric Jerome Dickey, DYING FOR REVENGE (Dutton, thriller)
Thomas Fitzsimmons, CITY ON FIRE (St. Martin's, police thriller)
Karyn Grice, WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS . . . STAYS IN VEGAS (Pocket, chick lit)
Tony Hays, THE KILLING WAY (Tor, mystery)
Patti Callahan Henry, DRIFTWOOD SUMMER (NAL, literary fiction)
Glenn Kaplan, EVIL, INC. (Forge, best-selling thriller)
Kaza Kingsley, EREC REX: THE DRAGON'S EYE (signed 8-book deal with Simon & Schuster, YA fantasy)
Craig Larsen, MANIA (Kensington, psychological thriller)
Nathan McCall, THEM (Atria, literary fiction)
Terry Shaw, THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE (Gather.com winner for first novel, Simon & Schuster, thriller)
Jacquelin Thomas, IT'S A CURL THING (Pocket, YA inspirational)

NONFICTION
Baseball Hall of Fame, SHADES OF GLORY: The Negro Leagues (National Geographic)
Thom Gossom Jr., THE WALK-ON (Borders)
Von Hardesty & Gene Eisman, SPACE RIVALRY (National Geographic)
Nicole LaBeach, A WOMAN'S TRUE PURPOSE (Sourcebooks)
Jo Arden Maeder, WHEN I MARRIED MY MOTHER (DaCapo)
Lewis Maltby Jr., THE VANISHING CONSTITUTION (Portfolio)
Christopher Nichols, FROM EMPIRE TO ISOLATION (Harvard Univ. Press)
Christopher Nichols & Charles Matthews, PROPHECIES OF GODLESSNESS (Oxford Univ. Press)
Phil Manning, GRAVE SECRETS OF DINOSAURS (National Geographic)
Seth Shostak, CONFESSIONS OF AN ALIEN HUNTER (National Geographic)
Christopher Van Tilburg, MOUNTAIN RESCUE DOCTOR (St. Martin's)

BEST KNOWN PROJECTS:

FICTION
Jeff Abbott, A KISS GONE BAD, Catherine Anderson, ONLY BY YOUR TOUCH, Leslie Glass, JUDGING TIME, Heather Graham, TALL, DARK, AND DEADLY, Greg Iles, MORTAL FEAR, John Jakes, AMERICAN DREAMS, Bentley Little, THE WALKING, Barbara Parker, SUSPICION OF VENGEANCE, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES, Peter Straub, THE THROAT, Steve Thayer, THE WHEAT FIELD, Lucien K. Truscott, HEART OF WAR

NONFICTION
Jerry Bledsoe, BEFORE HE WAKES, Sylvia Browne, THE OTHER SIDE AND BACK, James Comer, MAGGIE'S AMERICAN DREAM, Ariel Dorfmann, DESERT MEMORIES, A.M. Homes, LOS ANGELES, Herbert Krosney, THE LOST GOSPEL, Dave Pelzer, A MAN NAMED DAVE, Rick Pitino, BORN TO COACH, Geneen Roth, WHEN FOOD IS LOVE, Jon Winokur, THE PORTABLE CURMUDGEON