James N. Brook | Editorial Services
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Your editor is a poet and translator, with developed interests in Greek and Roman classics, modern history, the early twentieth-century avant-garde, crime fiction, jazz and blues, film, and critical theory.
I’ve worked on a wide range of publication types for quite a few employers and clients. For a list of selected titles, please see the Editorial projects page.
Selected publications Principal volume editor of Resisting the Virtual Life (with Iain Boal) and Reclaiming San Francisco (with Chris Carlsson and Nancy J. Peters), and volume editor of For David, a tribute to poet David Meltzer. Translator of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s crime novel The Prone Gunman (New York Times Notable Book), Guy Debord’s Panegyric, vol. 1, and Victor Serge’s poetry in A Blaze in a Desert. Poetry in City Lights Review, New American Writing, Poésie, Volt, and other journals.
Employers and clients Agora.io (technical blog posts, compliance white papers), Bank of the West (internal user guides), City Lights (fiction, nonfiction, poetry), Cleis Press (fiction), 451 Research (tech industry news), New York Review Books Classics (fiction, nonfiction, poetry), No Starch Press (IT and programming guides for the astute), Palo Alto Networks (instructor-led training, e-learning, security white papers), Palm (tech writing), SFGate.com (columnists), SF Weekly (events), SureSkills (Google labs for MOOCs), Sun Microsystems (tech writing, tech editing), VMware (instructor-led training, e-learning, standards documents, mentoring), Wiley-Sybex (user guides), Wired.com (news), and independent authors.
Tools of the trade Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, Acrobat, FrameMaker, Xyleme, DITA, XML, HTML, WordPress, Appitierre Evolve, Jira, SharePoint, Perforce, Teams, and various editorial styles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, Words into Type, AP Stylebook, APA Publication Manual, and Microsoft Writing Style Guide.
Languages English, French, basic Spanish.
School MFA Creative Writing and MA English, San Francisco State University; BA Humanities – Comparative Literature, New College of California; certificates in Copyediting, Teaching ESL, and Publishing, University of California Extension.
James N. Brook | Editorial Services 