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AJ Sobczak
 

A.J. is an editor, proofreader, and writer with wide experience both in fiction and in nonfiction, the latter with specialties in business writing, business methods, business history, communication, and literary analysis. He also writes both nonfiction (primarily articles on business-related topics and book reviews in various areas of fiction and nonfiction) and fiction and has won several minor awards for his short stories.

As a freelance editor, he enjoys the challenges of working with both fiction and nonfiction manuscripts. His specialty is science fiction (and he edited the four-volume Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature), but he moves easily among genres. Although he thrived as an in-house editor, he decided in 1997 to pursue freelance work, primarily to be able to work more directly with authors and to have greater flexibility and choice among projects. He prides himself on helping authors write so that they convey exactly what they want to, polishing their work and exploring with them the best ways to tell their stories or to present their facts and theories while maintaining the authors’ own tone and style.

His career in the publishing industry, spanning more than 25 years, began at SAGE Publications. While pursuing graduate work in economics at UCLA, he taught at California State University, Northridge, and other colleges in the Los Angeles area. After deciding that the publishing field suited him better than academia, he took a position at Salem Press, earning promotion to the position of project editor within several months. He worked in-house at Salem Press until starting work as a freelance editor, and Salem Press remained a client until it went out of business.

A. J. has edited nonfiction work, both books and papers (including more than a dozen successful theses and dissertations and dozens of articles published in academic journals), in a variety of fields, including various social sciences, technical research, and medical research. His work includes dozens of books and more than 50 journal issues in the social sciences, research methods, mathematics, political science, psychology, business and management, history, and health and medicine, among other topics.

A. J. has earned praise from supervisors at the numerous publishers where he has worked, as both an in-house editor and a freelancer, as well as from the authors with whom he has worked (see feedback below). His employers and clients include the following:

  • Salem Press (6 years in-house, continuing freelance)
  • Sage Publications (since 1993)
  • The Planetary Report (magazine)
  • Guilford Press
  • The University of California Press
  • Liberty Fund
  • ABC-CLIO
  • Rowman & Littlefield

Along with working with authors through various publishers, he assists authors in honing their manuscripts prior to submission and works with students on academic papers. He holds an MA in economics from UCLA, has done graduate-level coursework in mathematics, and taught economics at California State University, Northridge, for 4 years, as well as teaching at several other colleges. Several of his graduate student clients have successfully defended dissertations he edited. He is an expert in APA and Chicago styles and is on several publishers' lists of "go-to" editors for books with mathematical content. His writing on business and economics has appeared in several reference volumes, and he is the editor of and a contributor to Great Events from History II: Business and Commerce, containing approximately 500 articles on critical events in 20th-century business history.

He is especially interested in working with fiction authors and has edited more than 40 novels (science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and young adult) and assisted some of those authors and others in putting together query packages for agents and publishers. He has published short fiction in a variety of genres, so he understands the writing process from both the editor's and the writer's perspectives. Among other awards, he has received an honorable mention in the "Year's Best" collection of fantasy and horror published by St. Martin's Press in 1995. He has been a “Municipal Liaison” for the popular worldwide event “National Novel Writing Month” since 2002.


Specialties

He is an expert in APA and Chicago styles and is on several publishers' lists of "go-to" editors for manuscripts with heavy math content. His fiction specialties include science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, memoir, and young adult. Among his services and specialties are

  • Writing, copyediting, developmental editing
  • Manuscript evaluations and critiques
  • Fiction: science fiction, horror, mystery, mainstream, short story
  • Nonfiction: business, labor, literary criticism, memoirs, math, technical & science documents
  • Academic/scholarly writing: theses and dissertations
  • APA and Chicago writing styles

Editing Articles

Fiction or Nonfiction: True or False?


Partial List of Books Edited

academic editing scholarly writing

Inquests: Living with the Dead, by Judge Thomas Mitchell Shamburger

Czech Mate, by Dan West (crime thriller/satire)

Anathema Rhodes, by Iimani David (New York Literary Society, 2009 - Nominated for 2009 Book Of The Year by Foreword Magazine in literary fiction)

Vengeance Has No Joy, by Robert Haldi — detective fiction

Rose's Collage, by Christa Laririt — poetry

Figures upon Figures, by Christa Laririt — poetry 

Between Me and God: A Poetic Memoir Tracing a Year of Hope (tentative title), by Beverlye Hyman Fead — memoir and poetry

The Spirit Garden, by Charles Plante — fantasy 

Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, consulting editor T. A. Shippey, Project Editor A. J. Sobczak

Keep It Simple: An Informative Guide for Post 9/11 Air Travel, by Fred F. Pfisterer

The Nature of Leadership, edited by John Antonakis, PhD, et al.

Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, edited by Joseph F. Healey, PhD

Handbook of Research Design & Social Measurement, edited by Delbert C. Miller and Neil J. Salkind

The Planetary Report, a bimonthly magazine for space enthusiasts

Slow Leadership, by Adrian Savage

Reflections on Blood Games: Impact Poems from the Ricochets of Life, by Paul Guthrie (Calliope Books, 2007)

A Curveball from Heaven, by Louis A. Buckley  sports fantasy

 

Karabilla, by Patrick McClafferty (Raider Publishing)  science fiction/fantasy

 

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