Writing Coach, Mentor, Collaborator, and Ghostwriter Editing Services | Contemporary/Mainstream Creative Nonfiction, Detective, Erotica, Gay/Lesbian, Literary Fiction, Memoir/Autobiography, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Women’s Fiction, Young Adult
TED GASNER edited hundreds of award-winning fiction and nonfiction titles during his six years as a Supervising Editor for Scholastic Inc. Ted developed book series for print, eReaders, and websites, then assigned topics to authors, helped them with their outlines and first drafts, and then took over from there to copyedit the final product.
Experience
Freelance Editor, New York, NY
- Editing for Scholastic (short story anthologies and marketing catalogs), Kaplan (textbooks), Ceneveo (textbooks), McGraw-Hill (textbooks), ONCEKids (memoirs and Asian-themed picturebooks), and other publishers
Supervising Editor, Scholastic Inc., New York, NY
- Assigning and editing book-length nonfiction manuscripts for middle schoolers
- writing sidebars, online copy, and manuscripts
- website development (wireframing, designing, and bugging webpages)
- program development (creating concepts for whole series of books)
- developing eBooks for tablets (bookmapping, layout, assets, functionality)
- website management (trafficking digital assets; coordinating between editorial, design, and engineering teams)
- copyediting, proofreading, indexing, fact-checking
Book Editor Reviews
“Ted has an amazing ability to boil it down to the best moments in the least amount of words! I really like all the sophistication he brings to the writing. Casual tone but with varying sentence structures that keep it interesting.” —Eileen Wacker, author of The Mom’s Code and Once Kids’ Fujimini Adventure Series
“Ted was very prompt and did a great job of editing for me.” —Sarah Gallaway
“I glanced over the edits – I don’t like them – I LOVE THEM!!! You’re a genius! You really made my girls pop! I had to laugh at a couple of your comments. Great catch about Facebook age appropriateness. So, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for all that work! It’s so much red, I feel like a failing kid in seventh grade.” —Yvette
“I’ve had the privilege of working with Ted , and he is a consummate professional. A talented editor with a keen eye for detail, Ted always offers fresh and creative ideas to help strengthen my prose without compromising my voice. If you are looking for a caring, prompt, thorough editor, he is definitely the person to contact. —Lisa Fox, author of Knightly Desire
“I chose Ted Gasner over cheaper proposals because of his sample edit. He was worth every penny as he put MORE into the project than he needed to. Nice quality work and easy to work with.” —Don McGann
“As a children’s book author I was looking for an editor that would look at the interaction of the words along with the pictures on every page, not just the words on a typed document. Ted handled this task with mastery: He made each sentence as efficient as possible, while keeping a consistent style throughout. Always prompt in returning his edits, Ted made his comments and annotations directly on my PDF, making it a breeze to implement his feedback.”—Alan Quinonez, author of Benito, You Can Do it! Series
“An educated man myself, I am humbled by your excellent understanding of the English language and writing skills. What I sent to you now appears to be pretty rough, but it was the best I could do!! Nice to have you on my team. After all this effort, I hope this book goes somewhere…and if it does, you will be a big reason why it did.” —Dan
