• You deserve a magazine that delivers a sparkling, targeted mix of information, ideas, vision and attitude to each of its readers in a unique and personal fashion.
   

• My joy as an editor is to make it work. I love to excite your reader and depress your competition. The first step is to know who your reader is and what your reader wants and needs.  Then we focus. Every single particle that goes into the magazine must serve that reader. We find just the right contributors and blend their individual images and stories into one single, coherent, powerful statement -- your magazine
  

Experience

• Cigar Aficionado (Feb 2005-present) Freelance editing. Duties include fact checking and proofreading.

• American Forum for Global Education (Jan 2002-July 2005) Editorial consultation to Andrew Smith, president of this educational think tank. Duties include preparing marketing materials such as brochures and strategy statements; and editing various in-house written pieces, including op-eds and grant applications and proposals.

• Magazine Retailer  I was the editor of this quarterly trade publication from its birth in 1996 through its last issue (Winter 2001-2002). It  told chain store execs how to make money with magazines. We  launched the magazine in May 1996. We gave the magazine the look and feel of a consumer publication because of its positioning --- it was  the newsstand bible. Its sharp blend of information, ideas and graphics engaged our readers and advertisers.
   

• Previously, I worked for Ahead Publishing on  a series of titles: Events USA, a glossy consumer travel publication that reported the regional what-when-and-wheres throughout the year. We spun Events USA  into a newsletter,  then launched another newsletter, The What's Ahead Report. It alerted readers to "advance" information in such fields as travel, technology, emerging businesses, real estate, health & fitness and trends.
   

•  Additional background includes freelance editing (copyediting, researching, proofreading) for Cigar Aficionado; SoHo editorship at Wideband; consulting editorships with SoundWave and Home Video; contributing editorships with Popular Photography, Camera Arts and Modern HiFi & Music; and service as editor and associate editor at Lopez Publications.