I began my career in the retail side of the book business, founding and operating a chain of independent bookstores, Under Cover Books of Cleveland, Ohio. The judgment I gained from seven years as an independent bookseller still informs my editorial instincts today, twenty-three years after I became an editor. I remain a bookseller/editor, a rare combination among editors today.

I have directed several thematically-driven imprints of narrative nonfiction, "purpose-driven" imprints. Now working independently under the rubric of Philip Turner Book Productions, I continue to develop, edit, and package imperative books by and about truthtellers, whistleblowers, muckrakers and revisionist historians, the specialty for which I have become well known. I am devoted to editing and publishing books that chronicle miscarriages of justice, social issues, the wrongfully accused, errors of historical understanding, unique achievements, and revelatory discoveries. In turn, I represent these projects as a book producer to publishers.

I am a reader's editor, as well as an advocate for writers, never forgetting the audience and readership of a book I am developing and editing.

Services offered:

Full line editing of manuscripts; consultation with authors seeking collaborators/ghost writers; development and enhancement of their public platforms; drafting and revising book proposals; developing ideas into books.

NONFICTION ONLY

HAVEN and EXODUS 1947, Ruth Gruber; IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation, Edwin Black; BOOKNOTES: Life Stories, Brian Lamb; DEAD RUN: The Shocking Story of Dennis Stockton and Life on Death Row in America, Joe Jackson and William Burke, introduction William Styron; A DIARY OF THE CENTURY: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist, Introduction by Pete Hamill and THE EPIC OF NEW YORK CITY, Edward Robb Ellis; BASEBALL LETTERS and EVERY PITCHER TELLS A STORY, Seth Swirsky; THE DEVIL IS LOOSE, Antonine Maillet; NOT FOR AMERICA ALONE, Senator George Mitchell; Kodansha Globe (85 title nonfiction trade paperback series including first paperback edition of Barack Obama's DREAMS FROM MY FATHER; series featured anthropology, cross-cultural studies, narrative travel, and adventure classics.

(nonfiction) DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, Barack Obama (first paperback edition, Kodansha Globe, 1996) LOVER OF UNREASON: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love, Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev (A Philip Turner Book, Carroll & Graf); ON THE BRINK: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence, Tyler Drumheller with Elaine Monaghan (A Philip Turner Book, Carroll & Graf); THE POLITICS OF TRUTH: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Revealed My Wife's CIA Identity, Ambassador Joseph Wilson (C&G); THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK: Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons & What I Learned in Jail, Susan McDougal (C&G); SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire (C&G); WRITING WITH INTENT: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005, Margaret Atwood; AHMAD'S WAR, AHMAD'S PEACE: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq, Michael Goldfarb (a NY Times Notable Book, C&G); VIRGINIA WOOLF: The Will to Create as a Woman and AHEAD OF TIME: My Early Years as a Foreign Corrrespondent, Ruth Gruber (both pub'd by C&G), EXODUS 1947: The Ship that Launched a Nation (pub'd by Times Books, 1999, and Union Square Press, 2007), Ruth Gruber; YOUNG J. EDGAR: Hoover, the Red Scare and the Assault on Civil Liberties, BOSS TWEED: The Rise & Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern NY (a NY Times Notable Book), and DARK HORSE: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of James A. Garfield, Kenneth D. Ackerman (all three pub'd by C&G); THE GLORIOUS DECEPTION: The Double Life of William Robinson, the Marvelous Chinese Conjurer, aka Chung Ling Soo, and HIDING THE ELEPHANT: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear, Jim Steinmeyer (both pub'd by C&G); MR & MRS HOLLYWOOD: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire by Kathleen Sharp (C&G); 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon (pub'd by Union Square Press), 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents; and ROTHSTEIN: The Life, Times & Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series, David Pietrusza (both pub'd by C&G); THE LAST BATTLE, Ralph Wetterhahn (Carroll & Graf); NAPLES '44 and A TOMB IN SEVILLE, Norman Lewis (both pub'd by Carroll & Graf); THE EPIC OF NEW YORK CITY, Edward Robb Ellis (Kodansha America, 1996, Carroll & Graf, 2004); THE ONLY GRANT-WRITING BOOK YOU'LL EVER NEED: Top Grant Writers and Grant Makers Share Their Secrets, Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox.
(fiction) GEORGE & RUE, George Ellliott Clarke (C&G); HUNGER'S BRIDES and SOR JUANA, OR THE BREATH OF HEAVEN, Paul Anderson (C&G); THE REVENANT, Michael Punke (C&G); THE SANDS OF PRIDE and THE FIRES OF PRIDE, William R. Trotter (C&G); THINNER, BLONDER, WHITER, Elizabeth Maguire (C&G); MEMORY BOOK, A Benny Cooperman Detective Novel, Howard Engel (C&G); IN TIME OF WAR, Allen Appel (C&G).

For Union Square Press, Sterling Publishing, January 15, 2007-January 15 2009
CHANGING PLANET, CHANGING HEALTH: How Climate Change Threatens Our Health and What We Must Do About It, Paul Epstein, M.D., Associate Director of Harvard's Center for Health and the Global Environment, and Dan Ferber; AFTER MANY A SUMMER: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in NY Baseball, Robert Murphy; ZERO DAY THREAT: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money & Identity, Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz; 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies, David Pietrusza; THE LAST LINCOLNS: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family, Charles Lachman; WAR OF WORDS: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder, Simon Read; THE BABY THIEF: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption, Barbara Bisantz Raymond; PRINCE OF DARKNESS--RICHARD PERLE: The Kingdom, the Power, and the End of Empire in America, Alan Weisman; REGRET THE ERROR: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech, Craig Silverman, founder of RegretTheError.com; A DIARY OF THE CENTURY, Edward Robb Ellis; THE UNITED STATES v. I. LEWIS LIBBY, edited and with reporting by Murray Waas; COVERT: My Years Infiltrating the Mob, Bob Delaney, NBA Referee, with Dave Scheiber; RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China, Yuan-Tsung Chen; "RFK MUST DIE": The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Shane O'Sullivan; SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President Failed in Iraq, Greg Mitchell, Editor of Editor & Publisher; DARK GENIUS: The Influential Career of Legendary Political Operative and FOX News Founder Roger Ailes, Kerwin Swint; MONA LISA'S PAJAMAS: Diverting Dispatches from a Roving Reporter, A. Craig Copetas.

At Carroll & Graf, 2000-2006
AN ALPHABETICAL LIFE: Living It Up In the World of Books, Wendy Werris; THE NUCLEAR SPHINX OF TEHRAN: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran, Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar; IBSEN AND HITLER, Steven F. Sage; INVADING MEXICO, Joseph Wheelan; ARTIFICIAL HAPPINESS, Ronald W. Dworkin, M.D.; ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MAGIC, Milbourne and Maurine Christoper; "WHEN YOU READ THIS THEY WILL HAVE KILLED ME": The Life & Redemption of Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America; DELIVER THE VOTE: A History of Election Fraud, An American Political Tradition, Tracy Campbell; ODYSSEY OF AN EAVESDROPPER, Martin Kaiser & Robert Stokes; CHURCHILL'S FOLLY, Christopher Catherwood (C&G); I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR: The Interviews of Andy Warhol (C&G); ORDEAL BY SLANDER: The First Great Book of the McCarthy Era, Owen Lattimore (C&G); CELL PHONES: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram (C&G); THE SAVVY AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO BOOK PUBLICITY: A Comprehensive Resource--From Building the Buzz to Pitching the Press, Lissa Warren; THE LAST TIME AROUND CAPE HORN: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir, William F. Stark.
(fiction) MOTORCYCLE MAN, George Elliott Clark; THE THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF BEOWULF: Champion of Middle Earth, Brian Thomsen; EAST OF SUEZ, Howard Engel; LUCK, Joan Barfoot.

Editorial Director, Vice-President, Union Square Press, Sterling Publishing;
Executive Editor, Editor-in-Chief and Vice President: Carroll & Graf, Philip Turner Books, Thunder's Mouth Press/Avalon Publishing Group;
Executive Editor, Times Books and Crown Publishing/Random House;
Senior Editor and Editor-in-Chief, Kodansha America;
Senior Editor, Prentice Hall Press;
Editor, Macmillan;
Editor, Walker and Company.
As retail bookseller: Under Cover Books, Cleveland, Ohio.
• Chair, Membership Committee, Book Table, publishing industry lunch club.
• Guest teacher in CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Jan. 2008 and 2009.
• Member TPM media/politics web site: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/philipturner
• For recent interviews see: http://www.asja.org/newspub/x0812d.php
http://www.thetakeaway.org/stories/2009/apr/16/last-letters-and-parting-shots-how-say-goodbye-work/