Client Success
Check out recently published work from some of my great book clients, all of whom received a Manuscript Assessment or full Developmental Edit from me prior to publication. I’ve been fortunate to get to work with clients from a variety of disciplines, from Anthropology to Art History, and even the occasional novelist.
roosbelinda cÁrdenas, raising two fists: struggles for black citizenship in multicultural colombia
Stanford University Press, 2024
Services Provided: Manuscript Assessment
What I learned from working with Dr. Cárdenas: That an academic book really can be a page-turner, with a flow like the best of novels.
Akiko Takeyama, Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry
Stanford University Press, 2023
Services Provided: Developmental Editing, Copyediting
What I learned from working with Dr. Takeyama: That great ethnographers know how to ask great questions.
Maurice O. Wallace, King’s Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Services Provided: Developmental Editing, Copyediting, Proofing
What I learned from working with Dr. Wallace: That the best mentors make the best editing clients (ask anyone, Dr. Wallace is the GOAT of graduate mentors).
Joseph B. Entin, Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious work
University of Michigan Press, 2023
Services Provided: Manuscript Assessment
What I learned from working with Dr. Entin: That it’s high time we stopped thinking of the working class as primarily white, male, and industrial.
Timeka N. Tounsel, Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic
Rutgers University Press, 2022
Services Provided: Manuscript Assessment
What I learned from working with Dr. Tounsel: That an Epilogue can be so much more than a mere afterthought.
Jasmina tumbas, “i am jugoslovenka!” feminist performance politics during and after yugoslav socialism
Manchester University Press, 2022
Services Provided: Developmental Editing, Manuscript Assessment
What I learned from working with Dr. Tumbas: That writing a book can be a pathway toward building true and enduring community, near and far.
chikodi anunobi, The thief and the patriot
Services Provided: Developmental Editing, Copyediting
What I learned from working with Mr. Anunobi: To never underestimate a Data Analyst (click here for more about Chikodi and his first novel, Nri Warriors of Peace).
Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz, fragment image, and absence in 1960s japan
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022
Services Provided: Developmental Editing, Copyediting
What I learned from working with Dr. Adriasola Muñoz: That I could look at “difficult” art all day long and never get tired of it.
Annegret Oehme, He Should Have Listened to His Wife! The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-Modern Wigalois Adaptations
Services Provided: Developmental Editing
What I learned from working with Dr. Oehme: That Arthurian women are often more “power broker” than powerless.