Experience

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  Clients include: Papercutz, Chronicle Books, Yen Press

  • Freelance Editor

  • Freelance Editor

    • Jul 2023 - Present
    • Freelance Editor

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  Papercutz

  • Senior Editor

    • Sep 2022 - Jul 2023

    • Work with Editorial Director and team to develop a publishing strategy by conceptualizing andacquiring licensed and creator-owned graphic novels for Papercutz.• Responsible for the editorial development of 10-15 illustrated book series, including script and artediting, and submitting books through the approvals process for various licensors. Main licensingpartners include Hachette France, IMPS, Nickelodeon, and Rainbow Inc.• Maintain production schedules and deadlines, while working on a variety of licensed and unlicensednon-fiction/fiction, including Jackson Wilder's Adventures, The Smurfs, Winx Club, and Asterix.• Develop and maintain relationships with authors, agents, industry organizations, and licensors.• Participate in editorial meetings, share ideas with co-workers.• Present titles at sales meetings and elsewhere as required, as well as contribute ideasand expertise to marketing, including copywriting for jacket, catalog, and other copy asrequired.

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  Tapas Media

  • California, United States

  • Associate Editor

    • Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
    • California, United States

    • Edited comic series breakdowns and scripts, reviewed all comic art stages including storyboards,sketches, lines, and colors.• Worked with production to ensure projects stay within budget and the correct publication timeline.• Found and oversaw independent and studio-based freelance writers and artists; collaborated withfreelancers on timely and quality creation of chapters and also covers, banners, logos.• Wrote catalog copy and other related marketing and sales materials.• Researched novels to adapt into comics appropriate to twheebcomics platform.• Brainstormed and developed studio originals during Story Lab.• Independently sourced 100+ BIPOC writing submissions and recruited 10 writers for the companytalent directory, including Pushcart Prize and Tribeca Film Festival-winning writers and talent fromHBO, Netflix.

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  Scholastic

  • New York, NY

  • Editorial Assistant

    • Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
    • New York, NY

    • Provided administrative, project management, and editorial support to three editors of monthly Book Clubs specializing in early readers, chapter books, early middle grade, and graphic novels.• Project managed by putting through the acquisition process about 40-50 licensed books a year and shepherding 30 print catalogs per year.• Researched and reviewed fiction and nonfiction books across different publishers for Clubs acquisition; created P&L packets for approved acquisitions.• Assisted in administrative functions such as entering and maintaining all new license metadata; updating print catalog changes to staff; collaborating with design and marketing to assist in the creation of print catalogs.• Took lead on curating several issues of Summer, Winter Gift, and Diversity (Voices) print catalogs; curation based on Club sales analysis.

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  Bank Street College of Education Children's Bookstore

  • Book Seller

    • Oct 2015 - Apr 2020

    • Recommended for sale a variety of board and picture books, middle-grade, YA, and adult fiction.

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  Tor/Forge Books

  • Editorial Assistant

    • Feb 2016 - Sep 2018

    • As an editorial assistant, shepherded new acquisitions through the editorial process for three editors and liaised with all departments, authors, and agents in a professional manner; evaluated manuscripts; drafted tip sheets, transmittals, and estimating sheets for production; processed contracts, author payments, and remainders; managed unsolicited manuscripts and the Tor Teen internship program.• Worked on a diverse range of middle grade and YA titles including a Muslim American coming-of-age story; a historical fantasy romance, BLOOD & SAND; a horror mystery-thriller, IN THE WOODS; a social-justice LGBTQ oriented YA, ANGER IS A GIFT; a coming-of-age middle grade set in a Filipino squatter community, EVERLASTING NORA.• As a marketer, coordinated and managed logistics for School and Library marketing efforts including all conferences and sweepstakes, awards submissions, book buzzes/webinars, as well as wrote successful pitches for opportunities at major conferences.

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  Little, Brown Books for Young Readers & The Yen Press

  • Editorial & Design Intern

    • May 2015 - Jan 2016

    • Administrative and editorial assistance department-wide: Wrote reader reports for submissions and drafted rejection letters for editors Bethany Strout, Russell Busse, Allison Moore, and Kacen Callender; provided sensitivity reads for BANG by Barry Lyga, DREAMLAND BURNING by Jen Latham, TOWERS FALLING by Jewell Parker Rhodes. • At the Yen Press, drafted catalog and back cover copy for various manga series; made copyedit and art corrections to interiors in InDesign and Photoshop; packaged and routed final files to production.

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  VIZ Media

  • San Francisco

  • Editorial Intern

    • Jan 2011 - May 2011
    • San Francisco

    •Copyedited and proofread manuscript and proof pages of multiple volumes of graphic novels including Ooku, Skip Beat!, Natsume's Book of Friends, Kamisama Kiss, Oresama Teacher, Otomen, Pokemon, Black Bird, Rosario+Vampire.•Assisted editors in administrative tasks including photocopying; mailing book copies to freelance proofreaders and translators; researching authors for acquisitions, scanning and compiling PDF's.•Compiled images, created and updated databases for the Bleach and Naruto fanbooks in production.•Wrote promotional copy for Death Note Black Edition vols. 1-4 and Afterschool Charisma vols. 1-3.