MELANIE GOLD
wRITER~EDITOR~HISTORIAN

Books

Always a bibliophile, Melanie has worked in book typesetting, as an in-house production editor for a division of St. Martin’s Press, and a freelance project manager. Since 1995 she has had the pleasure of working on all manner of book projects, such as the ones you see on this page.

Project Management :

Illustrated Timeline of Inventions
by Craig Sandler
inventions
rich
Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle
by Alan Weisman
Put on a Happy Face
by Charles Strouse
happyface
TieaTie
How to Tie a Tie
by Daniel K. Hall
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Sample copyediting titles:

Backroad Bicycling in
Eastern Pennsylvania
by Patricia Vance
bicycling
cupcakes
Crazy About Cupcakes
by Krystina Castella
Keep Going
by Joseph Marshall III
keepgoing
wine
Kevin Zraly’s American Wine Guide
by Kevin Zraly
The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief:
Searching for Angels and the Parent-God
by M.D. Faber
history
The Secret History of the American Empire
by John Perkins
Winter in Kabul:
Life Without Peace in Afghanistan

by Ann Jones
kabul
wise
The Wiseguy Cookbook
by Henry Hill
This Tree Grows Out of Hell
by Ptolemy Thompkins
tree
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Sample proofreading titles:

Blood Autumn
by William Sanders
autumn
blood
Blood Orchid
by Stuart Woods
Sacred Earth
by Martin Gray
earth
Death of a Stranger
Death of a Stranger
by Anne Perry
Green River Virgins
by Mallory Burton
green river
morning river
The Morning River
by W. Michael Gear
My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark by George Shannon
by Kate McMullan
my travels
piece of heaven
A Piece of Heaven
by Barbara Samuel
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional
Life of Boys

by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
raising cain
siren
Siren
by Cheryl Sawyer
Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World’s Coasts and Beneath the Seas
by Carl Safina
song for the blue
stem cell
The Stem Cell Controversy: 
Debating the Issues
 
edited by Michael Ruse and Christopher A. Pynes
There’s a Chef in My Soup
by Emeril Lagasse
chef in my soup
wanderings
Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews
by Chaim Potok
Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness
Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto

edited by Michal Grynberg
word to outlive
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“A man must say what he means, or he may not mean what he says.” - Sir Reginald Johnston, from _The Last Emperor_

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