About Me

I started in book publishing at Houghton Mifflin in Boston when I was still an undergraduate at Tufts, and I’ve been editing books professionally ever since. After graduating, I left Boston for New York to work at W. W. Norton, where I collaborated with many towering figures in literature, history, poetry, religion, philosophy, and film.

At Wiley, I edited books in management, marketing, leadership, entrepreneurship, project management, economics, accounting, the sciences, and physics.

After many years working in publishing on the East Coast, I returned home California, and now live in Los Angeles, where I work for individual authors as well as publishers. I primarily work on memoirs and business books. I’m most interested in books that look at their subjects in new or different ways.

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of mystery novels and crime thrillers. Some of my favorites are Michael Connelly’s Bosch series, Patricia Cornwell’s Scarpetta books (the early ones), and Sue Grafton’s alphabet series. I also read a lot of history books and memoirs, and far too many magazines, newspapers, and business publications.

I graduated from Tufts University, where I majored in English and minored in philosophy.