Freelance Work
 

Producer, Prodigy Services Co., 1991 - 1992

Wrote, edited, built, formatted, and tested new features for online service. This began as a three-day-a-week job in the summer of 1991, which I took on in conjunction with my graduate studies. Afterward, I completed several short-term projects on contract to the company.

Copy editor, freelance, 1982 - 1985

Clients included Warner Books Inc. (1984-85), Berkley Publishing Corp. (1983-85), and Doubleday & Company, Inc. (1982). All projects were full-length mss., mostly fiction, requiring style sheets and design memos. Most memorable was a best-selling diet cookbook, Fit for Life (1985), which called for extensive, complex style work.

Proofreader, Film Comment, freelance, 1981

Film Comment is the bimonthly magazine of the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. I had a summer internship that didn't pay, and this was one of two other jobs I worked at that summer to pay the bills (see below).

Gofer, Laurel Entertainment, 1981

Laurel was George Romero's production company for Creepshow, a not-so-great horror movie. I got to attend the New York cast screening because I spent my summer folding posters and stuffing press kits.