Paul Weisser, Ph.D.
(510) 234-0095
editorrrrrrr@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~p.weisser
DISTANCE IS NO LONGER AN ISSUE IF YOU PREFER TO WORK FROM HOME!
The way I usually work as an editor is to sit with you in front of my computer and read your writing out loud to you. In that way, you are available to respond immediately to all my questions and suggestions, and we can change things on the spot.
Today we can approximate that editorial intimacy with free audio and video programs to hear and see each other, and with free teleconferencing programs for screen sharing. Thus, although I am in Berkeley, California, you can virtually sit right next to me from hundreds or even thousands of miles away, watch and listen to me edit in real time, and even write or edit on the screen from your end.
I teach a professional editing course at the University of California, Berkeley and have edited more than 70 books for academic and commercial publishers, including University of California Press, Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, Cornell University Press, Sierra Club Books, HarperCollins Publishers, Warner Books, North Atlantic Books, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Lawrence Hall of Science, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Art Museum, and others.
I also help individuals with nonfiction books, novels, short stories, children’s stories, screenplays, speeches, poetry collections, doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, articles, papers, proposals, brochures, flyers, letters, resumes, and tutorial instruction.
On the creative side, I have worked as a writer and editor for film studios in Hollywood and Europe, and was a co-writer of GREAT, which won the Academy Award for best short animated film. My clients’ most recent success is a memoir that a Hollywood director is currently considering for a feature film. While promoting her book, the author will soon be appearing on Good Morning America and Oprah.
On the academic side, I have edited manuscripts for professors and students at: Antioch College * Argosy University * California Institute of Integral Studies * California Polytechnic State University * California School of Professional Psychology * California State University, East Bay * California State University, Sacramento * California State University, San Jose * Columbia University * Cornell University * Harvard University * Indiana University * Institute of Transpersonal Psychology * John F. Kennedy University * Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Mills College * Princeton University * San Francisco State University * Stanford University * University of California, Berkeley * University of California, Davis * University of California, Los Angeles * University of California, San Francisco * University of California, Santa Barbara * University of California, Santa Cruz * University of Chicago * University of San Francisco * University of Southern California * Wright Institute * Yale University.
In addition to editorial and writing assistance, I can provide desktop publishing services, guide you through every step of self-publishing, or refer you to an appropriate publisher or literary agent.
Contact me at (510) 234-0095 or editorrrrrrr@gmail.com
or first visit my website: http://home.comcast.net/~p.weisser
(NOTE: To maintain confidentiality, projects with individual clients are not listed on my website.)
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