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A fiction and nonfiction generalist editor for over forty years, Jerry Gross does in-depth, problem-solving editorial critiques. Other editorial services include cutting, restructuring, rewriting, and line editing. He also develops, critique sand edit sfiction and nonfiction proposals. His editorial suggestions point out what works in the manuscript, and offer solutions to any problems he sees. His comments are made in the margins of the manuscript, and then recapped in an accompanying report. He encourages questions and comments from the author after he or she receives the critique. His goals are to help the author write to the best of his or her ability, teach writing skills valuable not only for the current manuscript but for those to come, and to make the manuscript as effective and salable as possible.

He edits and critiques all areas of adult and YA fiction except for category romances, westerns, science fiction, fantasy and children's books.

FICTION AREAS IN WHICH HE SPECIALIZES: Commercial mainstream novels, historicals, literary novels, mysteries, thrillers, espionage, adventure and other genres of male-oriented escape fiction.

NONFICTION AREAS: Memoirs, the art and craft of editing, writing and publishing, popular health, medicine, psychology, personal relationships, business psychology, politics, history, social issues, movies, TV, theater, print and other mass media.

Jerry is the editor of EDITORS ON EDITING: WHAT WRITERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT EDITORS DO. Grove-Atlantic published the completely revised third edition of EOE in 1993. First published in 1962, it has become the standard work on trade book editing in our country, used in publishing, editing and creative writing courses and at writers’ conferences. In 1991 the book was published in Chinese in China and Taiwan, and is used to train editors at the Chinese Publishing Institute.

CAREER HISTORY: VP and Editorial Director of Paperback Library; VP and Editorial Director of Warner Books, VP and Associate Editor in Chief of New American Library, Editor in Chief of Everest Books, Senior Editor of Dodd, Mead & Company. During his career he created the Gothic Romance and Regency Romances as paperback categories (which endure to this day), created the first TV/Paperback tie-ins, and introduced Edgar Cayce and Georgette Heyer to paperbacks.