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SERVICES
For experts of all kinds, whether debut or published authors, I can help at all stages of the process. Including, but not limited to, proposal development, trade consulting, manuscript editing, and leveraging my network to help position you and your work to be as commercially viable as possible.
With over a decade of experience working in Big Five publishing, and having published bestselling and award winning books, I will leverage my editorial and market insights to help position you for commercial publishing - as well as offer full service editing for authors already under contract. I also can help with idea generation, and determining its market potential.
Proposal Development for Trade Publishing
Freelance Manuscript Editing For Any Stage of Publication Process (Trade and Academic)
Trade Publishing Consulting & Leveraging Industry Contacts to Help Authors Find Representation and Position themselves for Commercial Publishing
Areas of Expertise
History, biography, popular science, politics and current affairs, economics/law, business, big think, investigative journalism, and practical non-fiction. Comfortable with academics shifting to trade publications, journalists, scientists, thought leaders, and culture writers. Have worked with both debut and published authors. I also help develop ideas, elevating an author's intended subject through a commercial lens and positioning it within genre effectively.
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ABOUT ME
Non fiction editor who has worked at Little, Brown and Company, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. Experience acquiring and publishing across a range of areas, that have won awards and hit multiple bestseller lists. While at Little, Brown, books and authors I've edited and published include the New York Times bestselling, Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell, finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, LA Times Book Prize, and PEN/EO Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing; San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal by Justin Gregg; The Everything War by WSJ reporter and Pulitzer winner Dana Mattioli, a finalist for the Financial Times Book Prize; bestselling historian Rick Perlstein, Washington Post op-ed columnist Dana Milbank's Fools on the Hill, Congressman James Clyburn, and bestselling management professor at MIT, Andrew McAfee. While at St. Martin’s Press, I published 2030 by Mauro F. Guillen, a Wall Street Journal bestseller and Financial Times Best of the Year pick, New York Times bestselling The Fund by NYT reporter Rob Copeland, Aftershocks by Biden officials Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright, Profit and Punishment by 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger, among others. Other authors I’ve worked with include Olivia Laing, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Lucia Berlin, Daryl Pickney, Andre Aciman, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, economist Linda Yueh, diplomat Phillip Gordon, Eric Posner, Edmund Richardson, playwright Andre Gregory, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
Examples of Works Published
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CONTACT ME
For rates, and general inquiries, please contact me below. I look forward to hearing from you.
pronoysarkar (at) gmail.com