Over the course of my career, I have edited more than a hundred books and several hundred reports, not to mention a vast assortment of video scripts, proposals, and blurbs. I've also written quite a few, some under my own name. I've had the good fortune to work with a wonderful variety of people, from presidents, generals, and eminent professors to community activists, peaceniks, and first-time authors.

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After completing my doctorate in Modern History at Oxford University, I worked for the BBC in London and as a researcher for several publishers. I headed across the Atlantic in the late 1980s and began working as an editor for think tanks in Washington, DC. In the 1990s, I moved west again, this time to California, intending to finish up a few editorial projects as a freelancer. I'm still here.

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Over the past twenty-five years, I have worked with clients from across California, across America, and across the world. I've also set up an editorial services company and a publishing company. Freelance editing might sound like a solitary occupation, but for me it's nothing of the kind. Whether in person or via email, phone, and Zoom, I am always interacting with authors, publishers, designers, editors, printers, and other specialists.

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My job lets me do three things I love to do: engage with all sorts of ideas, make things (such as books and websites), and work with a wide variety of people.

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