Selected Editorial Projects

I specialize in trade nonfiction, with particular focus on memoir, business, and personal development. I have worked on hundreds of books. Here are a representative few.

Ghostwriting

In Progress - March 2024

REGIFTING: Career Artists on Life Beyond the Arts (Publisher TBD) (author is a former opera singer)

THE SPY INSIDE: How Insider Threat Puts Your Organization at Risk, and What to Do About It (Publisher TBD) (author is a former intelligence agent who works in corporate security)

GREENWASHED: One Woman’s Fight for Corporate Honesty Exposed a Multi-Billion-Dollar Investment Bank (Publisher TBD) (author is the former chief sustainability officer of Deutsche Bank’s DWS Group)

THE CARE YOU DESERVE: Navigating the Healthcare System for the Best Possible Outcomes for Your Chronic Health Condition (Avocet Books, forthcoming 2024) (the author is sufferer of idiopathic intracranial hyptertension)

COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE: The Eight Elements that Create Exceptional Leadership Communication (author is a business professor at INSEAD in Singapore)

THE 101 GUIDE FOR MARKETERS WHO WANT TO UNDERSTAND PODCASTS (Avocet Books, forthcoming 2024) (author is CEO of a U.K enterprise-level podcast production agency)

Published

BLACKOUT PUNCH: Creating Four Loko Made Me, Broke Me, and Helped Me Find Myself, by Chris Hunter (Avocet Books) (author is CEO of a national beverage company)

POST-DIABETIC: An Easy-to-Follow 9-Week Guide to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes, by Eric Edmeades and Dr. Ruben Ruiz (Hay House, April 2024) (co-authors are a medical doctor and health coach)

PASSING DOWN YOUR SUCCESS: How to Prepare Your Family and Business for the 1st Transition, by Tammy Buss (Sassy Dog Productions / Avocet Books, 2023) (author is a business consultant and family advisor)

NO ONE IS A STRANGER: Finding Love, Connection, and a Brilliant Life, by Monty Moran (Lioncrest) (my second book with the author, a retired Fortune 500 executive)

AMERICA 3:16: Faith, Freedom, Family, by Graham Allen (self-published)

TOO BIG: Rebuild by Design: A Transformative Approach to Climate Change, by Henk Ovink (nai010 Publishers)

AUTOMATED STOCK TRADING SYSTEMS: A Systematic Approach for Traders to Make Money in Bull, Bear and Sideways Markets, by Laurens Bensdorp (Lioncrest)

INSIDE THE COCKPIT: Navigating the Complexity of Drug Development with AI and Blockchain, by Gunjan Bhardwaj (Lioncrest)

PURSUIT: My Life Hunting Big Game, by Lonnie Henriksen (self-published)

BOOK DOCTORING

In Progress - March 2024

CANCER: The Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me, by Steve Garraty (Self-publishing)

Published

THE ENTREPRENEUR’S FIELD GUIDE: Design Your Life Before Someone Else Does It for You, by Scott Rusnak (Self-published)

WALK THE LYME: From Knocking on Death’s Door to Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business, by Taylor James (Lioncrest)

LOVE IS FREE, GUAC IS EXTRA: How Vulnerability, Empowerment and Curiosity Built an Unstoppable Team, by Monty Moran (Old Tale Productions)

THE TEN-YEAR CAREER: How Entrepreneurs Can Fast-Track to Freedom, Jodie Cook (Summer 2022 Hodder & Stoughton [UK])

THE INTELLIGENT EXIT: The Business Owner’s Guide to a Winning Strategy for Selling Your Company, by Mark Carmichael (Paperboy Publishers)

Editing

CAN’T HURT ME: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, by David Goggins (Lioncrest) NYT Bestseller, Amazon Bestseller, WSJ Bestseller

NEVER FINISHED: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within, by David Goggins (Lioncrest) NYT Bestseller, Amazon Bestseller

FERAL: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks, by Emily Pennington (Little A)

UNCONVENTIONAL MEDICINE: Join the Revolution to Reinvent Health Care, Reverse Chronic Disease, and Create a Practice You Love, by Chris Kresser (Lioncrest)

LEAN OUT: The Truth about Women, Power and the Workplace, by Marissa Orr (HarperCollins Leadership)

SONG JOURNEY: A Hit Songwriter’s Guide Through the Process, Perils and Payoffs of Writing Songs for a Living, by Mark Cawley (Lioncrest)

EELS: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World’s Most Mysterious Fish, by James Prosek (Harper Perennial) NYT Book Review

INVENTING NIAGARA: Beauty, Power and Lies, by Ginger Strand (Simon & Schuster) NYT Book Review

KILLER ON THE ROAD: Violence and the American Interstate, by Ginger Strand (University of Texas Press) NYT Book Review

A CASE FOR CLIMATE ENGINEERING, by David Keith (Boston Review Books)

THE BARBARIC HEART: Faith, Money and the Crisis of Nature, by Curtis White (PoliPoint Press)

Book Development

SHIFT THE WORK: The Revolutionary Science of Moving from Apathetic to All In Using Your Head, Heart and Gut, by Joe Mechlinski (Morgan James Publishing) WSJ Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller

START WHERE YOU ARE: My Journey from Childhood Poverty to Passionate Entrepreneur, by Myra Evan Maryweather (Lioncrest)

Relevant Employment

Editor in Chief / Founding Team Member (2015-2023)

Scribe Media As a servant leader, I collaborated with a team of approximately 40 book editors who worked directly with authors to shape their nonfiction books. I also worked directly with select authors, shaping and writing their books.

Executive Editor (2003-2010)

Orion Magazine Conceptualized, acquired and executed editorial content in print and on the award-winning environmental and cultural magazine’s website, including podcasts, original video, and multimedia production. Recruited authors worldwide.

Editor in Chief and General Manager, Aspen Daily News (1987-1991)

Led a team of 28 in America’s smallest daily newspaper war. The masthead slogan read “If You Don’t Want It Printed, Don’t Let It Happen.” Wrote and directed investigative editorial projects while achieving 90% market penetration.