Friday, December 7, 2007

The Book Doctor Is In!

Have a question about how to develop your concept into a book? About the ins and outs of publishing? Ask me -- at www.thebookdoctorisin.blogspot.com
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises




Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises
An editorial boutique serving publishers, agents, and authors

Sandi Gelles-Cole founded Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises in 1983, after eleven years as an acquisitions editor for major New York publishers. She has worked with: Danielle Steel; Alan Dershowitz; Victoria Gotti; Christiane Northrup; and Tonya Lewis Lee and Crystal McRary Anthony, whose Gotham Diaries won the 2005 BlackBoard Award for Fiction.Recent and forthcoming books by her clients include "Truth Catcher" by Anna Salter, "The Rabbit Factory" by Marshall Karp and "Sugar Shock" by Connie Bennett, as well as the Gelles-Cole publication "Albany Scrapbook" by Kenneth Salzmann.Her services include: developing concepts for fiction and nonfiction. For fiction:plot and subplot development, character development, and help with pacing. For nonfiction: organization, architecture, and "growing" small ideas into big money-makers. She has lectured and taught widely, and will be among the presenters in two upcoming writers programs: "Prepare to Publish: How to Get From Raw Idea to Book Contract" (Feb. 7, 2007), a program of New York's 92nd Street Y (www.92y.org); and "From Your Notebook to the Reader: How to Move Your Nonfiction or Fiction From Concept to Finished Material" (March 3, 2007) at The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, N.Y.(www.artscenteronline.org)To learn more about Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, please visit www.literaryenterprises.com



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About Me

Sandi Gelles-Cole has acquired, edited and collaborated on many best-selling books in hardcover, mass market and trade paperback. She began her publishing career with a degree from Northeastern University and a post as editorial assistant to the Executive Editor of the David McKay Company. After advancing to the position of Senior Editor, she moved from McKay to Dutton/NAL. She left NAL to help found Rawson Associates, before joining Dell Publishing (part of the Random House Group) as Senior Acquisitions Editor for Dell/Delacorte and Dell Trade Paperback. Her editorial agency was founded in September of 1983. She has spoken on the subject of authors working with independent editors/ghost writers before such groups as The ‘American society of Journalists and Authors; the Mid-Atlantic Association of American Booksellers; the Oklahoma Writers Federation; The Cape Cod Writers Conference; Avila College; The University of Houston; The Florida Writers Association; Pub Net of the Hudson Valley, and The Arts Center of the Capital Region. She is a charter member of the Consulting Editors Alliance of New York City. To learn more, please visit www.literaryenterprises.com