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editorial services, consultant : akatzeditorial@gmail.com
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Amanda Katz
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Whether you’re planning your proposal, conceiving your book’s structure, seeking a smart critical eye on a draft, or honing a final version for submission, I’m delighted to help you develop your book project for publication. A longtime writing teacher as well as a publishing insider, I can provide perceptive readings, help you strategize a plan of attack for the writing that remains, and offer you clear suggestions for improving your work.
A professional editor for ten years, I spent five years as an acquiring editor of fiction and nonfiction at Bloomsbury USA. Since 2007, I have worked as a freelance editor, writer, and translator.
My freelance clients as a book editor and coach include authors at Riverhead, Ecco, Routledge, and more; I also work with dissertation writers, including PhD candidates at Brown, Princeton, Berkeley, University of Michigan, and other universities. My translations from French include a number of books for Abrams. I have worked on nonfiction books and proposals in many areas; fiction ranging from the commercial to the experimental; journalism; academic writing; and business communications. In addition to my work as an editor, I'm a writer myself. I hold an MFA in creative writing from Brown University, where I have also taught, and I currently review fiction and nonfiction for the Boston Globe.
In general, I'm experienced with a wide range of writing projects -- and a wide range of writers, from celebrated authors to college freshmen. If you think I might be of service, please don't hesitate to be in touch.
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years experience: 10
rates: available on request
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SKILLS
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Developmental editing, Proposal writing/editing, Line-editing, Copy editing, Proofreading, Translation, Writing
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GENRES & SPECIALTIES
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General fiction, Biography, History, Travel, Lifestyle, Science, General nonfiction, Cultural studies, Literary criticism, Food writing, Arts, Memoir
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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Books edited at Bloomsbury include:
Nonfiction
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard
The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World by Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein
Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking by Kate Colquhoun
A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America by Rowan Jacobsen
Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices by Chitrita Banerji
Stacked: A 32DDD Reports from the Front by Susan Seligson
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York by Mat Johnson
The Sun King’s Garden: Louis XIV, Andre Le Nôtre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles by Ian Thompson
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Forger by Frank Wynne
The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America by Rodney Bolt
Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris by Richard Davenport-Hines
My Mother’s Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes by Justine Picardie
History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe by Rodney Bolt
The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can’t Find the Words by Susan P. Halpern
Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family by Louise DeSalvo
Fiction
Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel by William Sutcliffe
Austenland: A Novel by Shannon Hale
The Tango Singer: A Novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez
The Big Why: A Novel by Michael Winter
Confessions of a Teen Sleuth: A Parody by Chelsea Cain
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