Peter Letzelter-Smith

About Me

I bring broad intellectual and cultural interests to any project. All of this comes with a pretty decent sense of humor.

I can digest complex subject matter and write/edit with clarity and metaphor.

Along with wordsmithing, I have previous professional experience in non-profit management, collective bargaining, and the entertainment industry (motion picture and live performance).

Publishing Background

My experience spans books, periodicals, magazines, academic journal submissions, dissertations, academic papers, essays, reports, white papers, manuals, and websites.

Copyediting for authors published by:

• University of North Carolina Press
• University of New Mexico Press
• Cornell University Press
• Norton
• Doubleday

Back in the day, part of copyediting teams on reference works by:

• Oxford University Press
• Scribner & Sons
• Macmillan

Submissions to periodicals such as:

• Berkeley Business Law Journal
• Korea Journal of Buddhist Studies
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  
• Journal of Medical Ethics
• Business Ethics Quarterly
• Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal

Reports for organizations such as:

• Eleanor Crook Foundation
• Project STOP
• UCLA’s Center For Scholars & Storytellers
• Oregon State University’s Sustainable Tourism Lab
• The Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN)

Styles

Got a bibliography that needs formatting? I can do that. I am extremely familiar with several different style guides — especially Chicago (CMS)  and American Psychological Association (APA) — and specialize in the formatting and editing of bibliographies, footnotes and endnotes (including conversion to blind notes, trailing phrase notes, or key phrase notes), citations, reference lists, figures, and tables.

Niches

Some particular areas of interest are:

• history
• politics
• environment and sustainability
• labor relations and unions
• art, architecture, and photography
• motion picture production
• live theater (especially technical aspects)
• sports
• technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automatic identification systems (AIS), and data analytics

Email: pletzswork@gmail.com

https://www.writing-editing-services.com/

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Years in the field: 20
Years freelancing: 20