As Vice-President of Sterling Publishing and Editorial Director of Union Square Press I direct a thematically-driven imprint of narrative nonfiction. We are building a distinctive list of imperative books by authors whose works showcase miscarriages of justice, social ills, the wrongfully accused, errors of historical understanding, unique achievements, and revelatory discoveries.

For traditional Sterling, I oversee health, wellness, mind, body, spirit and self-improvement titles.

I am an editor who began his career in the retail side of the book business, founding and operating a small chain of family-owned bookstores, Under Cover Books of Cleveland, Ohio. The judgment I gained from seven years as an independent bookseller still informs my editorial instincts today, more than twenty years after becoming an editor.

I am a reader's editor, as well as an advocate for writers, never forgetting the audience and readership for a book considered for acquisition, or while editing for publication.

NO FICTION

HAVEN and EXODUS 1947, Ruth Gruber; IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST, Edwin Black; BOOKNOTES: Life Stories, Brian Lamb; DEAD RUN, Joe Jackson and William Burke, introduction William Styron; A DIARY OF THE CENTURY and THE EPIC OF NEW YORK CITY, Edward Robb Ellis; BASEBALL LETTERS and EVERY PITCHER TELLS A STORY, Seth Swirsky; THE DEVIL IS LOOSE, Antonine Maillet; NOT FOR AMERICA ALONE, Senator George Mitchell; Kodansha Globe (80 + title nonfiction trade paperback series feauring anthropology, cross-cultural studies, narrative travel, adventure classics)

(nonfiction)LOVER OF UNREASON: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love, Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev (A Philip Turner Book); ON THE BRINK: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence, Tyler Drumheller with Elaine Monaghan (A Philip Turner Book); THE POLITICS OF TRUTH, Ambassador Joseph Wilson; THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK, Susan McDougal; SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire; AHMAD'S WAR, AHMAD'S PEACE, Michael Goldfarb (a NY Times Notable Book); VIRGINIA WOOLF: The Will to Create as a Woman, Ruth Gruber; YOUNG J. EDGAR, BOSS TWEED (a NY Times Notable Book), and DARK HORSE, Kenneth D. Ackerman; THE GLORIOUS DECEPTION and HIDING THE ELEPHANT, Jim Steinmeyer; MR & MRS HOLLYWOOD by Kathleen Sharp; 1920 and ROTHSTEIN, David Pietrusza; THE LAST BATTLE, Ralph Wetterhahn; NAPLES '44 and A TOMB IN SEVILLE, Norman Lewis; THE EPIC OF NEW YORK CITY, Edward Robb Ellis; CHURCHILL'S FOLLY, Christopher Catherwood; I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR: The Interviews of Andy Warhol; ORDEAL BY SLANDER, Owen Lattimore;
(fiction) GEORGE & RUE, George Ellliott Clarke; HUNGER'S BRIDES and SOR JUANA, OR THE BREATH OF HEAVEN, Paul Anderson; THE REVENANT, Michael Punke; THE SANDS OF PRIDE, William R. Trotter; THINNER, BLONDER, WHITER, Elizabeth Maguire; MEMORY BOOK, A BENNY COOPERMAN DETECTIVE NOVEL, Howard Engel; IN TIME OF WAR, Allen Appel

For Union Square Press, Sterling Publishing, beginning January 15, 2007
CHANGING PLANET, CHANGING HEALTH: Climate Change and Public Health by Paul Epstein, M.D., Associate Director of Harvard's Center for Health and the Global Environment, and Dan Ferber; ZERO DAY THREAT: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity, Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz; 1960: JFK, Nixon, LBJ, and the Election That Transformed America, David Pietrusza; WAR OF WORDS: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder, Simon Read; THE BABY THIEF: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption, Barbara Bisantz Raymond; PRINCE OF DARKNESS--RICHARD PERLE: The Kingdom, the Power, and the End of Empire in America, Alan Weisman; REGRET THE ERROR: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech, Craig Silverman, founder of RegretTheError.com; A DIARY OF THE CENTURY, Edward Robb Ellis; THE UNITED STATES v. I. LEWIS LIBBY, edited and with reporting by Murray Waas; COVERT: My Years Infiltrating the Mob, Bob Delaney, NBA Referee, with Dave Scheiber; RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China, Yuan-Tsung Chen; "RFK MUST DIE": The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Shane O'Sullivan; SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President Failed in Iraq, Greg Mitchell, Editor of Editor & Publisher; DARK GENIUS: The Influential Career of Legendary Political Operative and FOX News Founder Roger Ailes, Kerwin Swint;

At Carroll & Graf, 2000-2006
AFTER MANY A SUMMER: 1957, the Dodgers, the Giants, and the End of National League Baseball in New York, Robert Murphy; AN ALPHABETICAL LIFE: Living It Up In the World of Books, Wendy Werris; THE NUCLEAR SPHINX OF TEHRAN: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran, Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar;
IBSEN AND HITLER, Steven F. Sage; INVADING MEXICO, Joseph Wheelan; ARTIFICIAL HAPPINESS, Ronald W. Dworkin, M.D.; ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MAGIC, Milbourne and Maurine Christoper; WRITING WITH INTENT, Margaret Atwood; "WHEN YOU READ THIS THEY WILL HAVE KILLED ME": The Life & Redemption of Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America; DELIVER THE VOTE: A History of Election Fraud, An American Political Tradition, Tracy Campbell; ODYSSEY OF AN EAVESDROPPER, Martin Kaiser & Robert Stokes; (fiction) MOTORCYCLE MAN, George Elliott Clark; THE THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF BEOWULF: Champion of Middle Earth, Brian Thomsen; EAST OF SUEZ, Howard Engel; LUCK, Joan Barfoot

As Editor, Senior Editor, Executive Editor, Editor-in-Chief: Carroll & Graf, Philip Turner Books, Thunder's Mouth Press/Avalon Publishing Group; Times Books and Crown/Random House; Kodansha America; Prentice Hall Press; Macmillan; Walker and Company.

As retail bookseller: Under Cover Books, Cleveland, OH