Heinlein -- the Virginia Edition
Well, it's official and I can talk about it now, in that unless the creeks rise and/or there's a disaster on the order of the Great San Francisco Earthquake, Windhaven Press is officially the book production company producing the Virginia Edition of the complete works of Robert A. Heinlein for the trust that oversees RAH's work; the trust is the publisher. (I believe their website for the Edition is still under construction.)
Long story short: the publisher/packager that was doing it went under, the guy who runs the trust called Eleanor Wood, and Eleanor (bless her!) said, "You need Nancy Hanger and Windhaven." And thus the contract fell quite literally in my lap.
(EDITED TO ADD: To clear up misunderstanding that people pointed to this post seem to be laboring under -- Windhaven is the professional book production company, not the publisher. The publisher is the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Trust, or, more correctly, the Virginia Editions LLC, part of the Trust. We are not publishers. We have never been publishers. If you want to know how much the books cost, what sort of volumes are included, what format they're in, take a look at the Trust homepage [Google on it, folks]. We have no control over these things, nor should we. We simply make books into books for publishers. Nor are we packagers like Meisha Merlin was -- that's a whole other beast altogether. Again, Google is your friend if you want to know more about all these things. So don't go looking at the Windhaven homepage for information about these books -- we aren't advertising or selling them. We aren't the publishers.)
I'm still short a couple of proofreaders, as we're producing 4 books a month, which means 8 books being simultaneously proofread (1st pass and 2nd pass) at any given time -- so I'd like 16 proofreaders total, so we don't burn people out by sending them one book to proofread then immediately another one, like, 3 days later. That would make for crispy proofreaders in no time flat.
PLEASE ONLY WRITE TO ME IF YOU HAVE *TRADE PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PROOFREADING*. Freelance experience is just dandy, but really, only write to me if you've actually been a professional proofreader for a trade publisher. I cannot train people for this project -- the deadlines are too tight and will start immediately in December. I can't take people who "are good readers." I can't take people who want to "break into the field." Honest, don't waste your time and mine by applying if you don't have the experience. Sorry to flog the dead horse, but I can't tell you how many applications I've had over the years from the above examples, after I've advertised for trade-only professionals.
Obviously, a science fiction proofreading (professional!) background is preferred. (And no -- I have to nip this one in the bud, too -- being a volunteer proofreader for a volunteer publication put out by a small press or even a larger SF press does not count. Why? Because I need people who I know were trained by professionals in-house at publishers. People who have been doing this a while. People who make their living doing this. Okay?)
Resumes in RTF format only. You send me a Word file, I won't open it. (Long story, just follow the directions, please.) Don't tell me how you're the best thing since sliced bread: your resume and references will do that for you.
References: Two, please. Phone or email addresses necessary.
Send to: editrx@gmail.com
Do not send to my primary domain address, as I'm having problems with the spam filter and you may get lost in the shuffle. I'm working on fixing it. Dammit. (Yet another thing this week!)
Now that I'm done with the cranky part of this post ....
... WOOT! I have the Heinlein project to do! WOOT!!!!
Long story short: the publisher/packager that was doing it went under, the guy who runs the trust called Eleanor Wood, and Eleanor (bless her!) said, "You need Nancy Hanger and Windhaven." And thus the contract fell quite literally in my lap.
(EDITED TO ADD: To clear up misunderstanding that people pointed to this post seem to be laboring under -- Windhaven is the professional book production company, not the publisher. The publisher is the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Trust, or, more correctly, the Virginia Editions LLC, part of the Trust. We are not publishers. We have never been publishers. If you want to know how much the books cost, what sort of volumes are included, what format they're in, take a look at the Trust homepage [Google on it, folks]. We have no control over these things, nor should we. We simply make books into books for publishers. Nor are we packagers like Meisha Merlin was -- that's a whole other beast altogether. Again, Google is your friend if you want to know more about all these things. So don't go looking at the Windhaven homepage for information about these books -- we aren't advertising or selling them. We aren't the publishers.)
I'm still short a couple of proofreaders, as we're producing 4 books a month, which means 8 books being simultaneously proofread (1st pass and 2nd pass) at any given time -- so I'd like 16 proofreaders total, so we don't burn people out by sending them one book to proofread then immediately another one, like, 3 days later. That would make for crispy proofreaders in no time flat.
PLEASE ONLY WRITE TO ME IF YOU HAVE *TRADE PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PROOFREADING*. Freelance experience is just dandy, but really, only write to me if you've actually been a professional proofreader for a trade publisher. I cannot train people for this project -- the deadlines are too tight and will start immediately in December. I can't take people who "are good readers." I can't take people who want to "break into the field." Honest, don't waste your time and mine by applying if you don't have the experience. Sorry to flog the dead horse, but I can't tell you how many applications I've had over the years from the above examples, after I've advertised for trade-only professionals.
Obviously, a science fiction proofreading (professional!) background is preferred. (And no -- I have to nip this one in the bud, too -- being a volunteer proofreader for a volunteer publication put out by a small press or even a larger SF press does not count. Why? Because I need people who I know were trained by professionals in-house at publishers. People who have been doing this a while. People who make their living doing this. Okay?)
Resumes in RTF format only. You send me a Word file, I won't open it. (Long story, just follow the directions, please.) Don't tell me how you're the best thing since sliced bread: your resume and references will do that for you.
References: Two, please. Phone or email addresses necessary.
Send to: editrx@gmail.com
Do not send to my primary domain address, as I'm having problems with the spam filter and you may get lost in the shuffle. I'm working on fixing it. Dammit. (Yet another thing this week!)
Now that I'm done with the cranky part of this post ....
... WOOT! I have the Heinlein project to do! WOOT!!!!