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Bob Delaney
Interests
Scale modeling, movies (at the cinema or home), reading, surfing the Internet, sports (especially soccer, hockey, basketball, baseball, the Olympics), travel, and dining out.
Books
Mostly history and other non-fiction. Favorites include: Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond), The Guns of August (Barbara Tuchmann), The Prize (Daniel Yergin), Dreadnought (Robert K. Massie).
Movies
Classics, dramas, comedies, mysteries, suspense. Favorites include: Citizen Kane; Casablanca; The Battle of Algiers; Casino Royale (2006); Alexander Nevsky; Lawrence of Arabia; Reds; Thirteen Days.
Television
60 Minutes; CNN (especially The Situation Room and Anderson Cooper 360); The History Channel; Seconds from Disaster; movies on TCM.
About Me
I'm an experienced mass communications professional currently between full time jobs. My previous experiences include: public relations for educational institutions (4 years) and four agencies (2 years), book editing (6 years), and free-lance copy editing and fact checking.
Goal
Employment in an editorial position at a publisher of either books or magazines.
Services
Editing/Fact Checking/Proofreading
Fee: $3.00 per page
Professional Experience
Copy Editor & Fact Checker
Free-Lance
September 2005 - Present
Fact check and copy edit magazine stories (3,000 to 5,000-word range). Worked on Ziff Davis Media magazines EdTech and StateTech.
Editor
Squadron/Signal Publications
February 1999 - March 2005
Maintained monthly book publications schedule, with 99% on-time rate for delivery of completed manuscripts into publisher’s warehouse.
Edited picture book on air combat over Iraq in 2003 within two months of receipt of manuscript and photographs from author.
Established contact with authors and printing companies.
Edited highly illustrated publications (5,000 to 15,000-word range) for specialty book publishing firm.
Developed positive working relationships with artists, sales professionals, and publishers.
Researched facts, evaluated author submissions, assembled words and illustrations into documents, and implemented changes.
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