Friends in Great Places!
A happy shout-out to Heather Sellers, who's been here on the blog talking about writing by hand and whose unique voice is preserved in her piece for O magazine this month, "Cups of Men." Single and 42, 100 men, 100 cups of coffee. Do the math.
Yay to Michelle Tea, a four-time memoirist and the editor of the blowaway collection Without a Net, who takes her working-class lens to hang out with Beth Ditto at Paris's Fashion Week for The Believer. Here's a snippet:
And last but not least, I am very excited to be able to recommend to you the amazing Casey Ebro, who acquired and edited my own memoir The Truth Book and is now available on a freelance basis to help people refine their manuscripts and proposals. I can honestly say that working with Casey was an unmitigated joy. She has pitch-perfect taste, knows structure and sentences like you wouldn't believe, and is always kind and immaculately professional. If you have a proposal or a manuscript you're unsure about or would like some very knowledgeable help with, you should get in touch with her.
Casey received her Master of Science in Publishing, with distinction, from New York University. While a graduate student, she interned at Farrar, Straus, & Giroux and at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. For the past nine years, she worked at Arcade Publishing, where she acquired and edited books in the categories of history, politics, current events, biography, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and literary fiction. Now a freelance book editor, Casey shapes proposals and works of nonfiction and fiction and consults with authors on the publishing process.
Her latest book was THE TEMPLARS by Vatican Secret Archives historian Barbara Frale, for which she solicited a foreword by Umberto Eco. An alternate selection for the History Book Club, Military Book Club, Book of the Month Club, Book of the Month Club 2, Science Fiction Book Club, and One Spirit Book Club, THE TEMPLARS was hailed by Booklist as "the first-choice primer on its legend-laden subject."
She was also the acquiring editor of the trade paperback original WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT POLITICS . . . BUT DON'T by Jessamyn Conrad. Published before the elections, it has a blurb from Barack Obama, who hailed the book as "engaging and inspiring."
But honestly, she can do anything. Casey's fantastic. She's a great listener, both to people and to manuscripts: she can hear what's really there, and she can make it even clearer and stronger. To inquire, e-mail her at caseyebro@yahoo.com, and if you do, please tell her I sent you.
Now, shhhh. Make Mommy a cocktail. (But just one.) Mad Men's back.
Yay to Michelle Tea, a four-time memoirist and the editor of the blowaway collection Without a Net, who takes her working-class lens to hang out with Beth Ditto at Paris's Fashion Week for The Believer. Here's a snippet:
For a long time I hated beauty for the way people used it as a measuring stick to beat people, especially women. But I came to believe in a vast idea of beauty, one that included me and all my beautiful weirdo friends. As for more conventional beauty, I didn't have to hate it just because people let it make them stupid.Speaking of which, I scoured the NYT's style magazine this morning, and I can edit down what's on offer for fall to one website for you: Babette, the only truly interesting one in there. (Nothing can touch Ports 1961, imho, but folks have to try.) And you can read about Colette's foray into the beauty biz, too.
And last but not least, I am very excited to be able to recommend to you the amazing Casey Ebro, who acquired and edited my own memoir The Truth Book and is now available on a freelance basis to help people refine their manuscripts and proposals. I can honestly say that working with Casey was an unmitigated joy. She has pitch-perfect taste, knows structure and sentences like you wouldn't believe, and is always kind and immaculately professional. If you have a proposal or a manuscript you're unsure about or would like some very knowledgeable help with, you should get in touch with her.
Casey received her Master of Science in Publishing, with distinction, from New York University. While a graduate student, she interned at Farrar, Straus, & Giroux and at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. For the past nine years, she worked at Arcade Publishing, where she acquired and edited books in the categories of history, politics, current events, biography, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and literary fiction. Now a freelance book editor, Casey shapes proposals and works of nonfiction and fiction and consults with authors on the publishing process.
Her latest book was THE TEMPLARS by Vatican Secret Archives historian Barbara Frale, for which she solicited a foreword by Umberto Eco. An alternate selection for the History Book Club, Military Book Club, Book of the Month Club, Book of the Month Club 2, Science Fiction Book Club, and One Spirit Book Club, THE TEMPLARS was hailed by Booklist as "the first-choice primer on its legend-laden subject."
She was also the acquiring editor of the trade paperback original WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT POLITICS . . . BUT DON'T by Jessamyn Conrad. Published before the elections, it has a blurb from Barack Obama, who hailed the book as "engaging and inspiring."
But honestly, she can do anything. Casey's fantastic. She's a great listener, both to people and to manuscripts: she can hear what's really there, and she can make it even clearer and stronger. To inquire, e-mail her at caseyebro@yahoo.com, and if you do, please tell her I sent you.
Now, shhhh. Make Mommy a cocktail. (But just one.) Mad Men's back.
fayepoet said:
I'm just catching up with your entries. First, thanks so much, for sharing your experience with Casey and her contact information.I am ever hopeful that one day, I will have cause to turn to her.
August 18, 2009 7:18 PMI loved your story about Nola--full of trouble and ready to go.. made me eager to know her.I can only imagine....I hope your editor is happy with your story and edits.Your readers are waiting!
I don't know if it's a coincidence or not but I've completed several memoir essays on computer and now find myself suddenly moving into shorter essays of the natural world and writing– at least the first draft— by hand. I've begun to notice that when something is brand new, a spark in the dark, I need to grab it quickly and so it's pen or pencil in hand and a notepad.Also, when I read, I often write in the margins and those comments are sometimes lead ins or elaborations for things in process.