Erin Ferretti Slattery

Current

Managing Editor at Channel V Books

Past

English Editor at Rebo Publishers, Prague
Cybertutor at University of Missouri-Columbia Online Writery
Freelance proofreader at Unicom (Prague office)

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Education

University of Missouri-Columbia
Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Hollins University

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Writing and Editing

Erin Ferretti Slattery’s Summary

At Channel V Books in New York, I'm currently involved in the acquisitions, development, editorial, PR, and marketing departments.

Here's what I do:

• Proposal shaping (identifying concept, audience, market, vision)
• Identifying mss potential, market potential, market expectations
• Developmental editing
• Substantive editing
• Line editing
• Audience profiling
• Sales strategies, copywriting, outreach

• Production

• Social media for authors; platform development

• In-house authors' handbook

Erin Ferretti Slattery’s Specialties:

• Social-media networking for marketing in publishing and bookselling

• Publishing: Chicago Manual, editing, copy editing; proofreading of digital-format, page proofs, galleys

• Languages: French, Spanish, basic Czech, basic Hebrew.

Erin Ferretti Slattery’s Experience

Managing Editor

Channel V Books

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)

As managing editor, I work to tie together the PR, editorial work, and development of books and author platforms. I'm happiest finding curious readers, talented writers, and the communities that support them. I'm an unabashed publishing and book geek.

Additional Information

Erin Ferretti Slattery’s Interests:

Publishing trends; all things literary; swimming; writing (natch); yoga; the best place for baklava in Astoria; William Blake and the Romantic Poets; the art of finding an empty table at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on the UWS; world music; various crafty pursuits; lunchtime jazz at Lincoln Center; speaking passable but still hilarious-to-natives Czech; book clubs and publishing hobnobbing; talking about teaching; tracking down my family's New York roots; unrequited passion for Hugo and Flaubert; using-as-many-pots-as-possible cooking; studying XML over a double espresso.