EXPERIENCE

A few selected examples of the books, authors, publications, platforms, and literary projects I’ve helped shape over the years. Not an exhaustive list.

Book Development + Editorial Work
Publishing + Book Production
Submissions + Literary Placement
Publicity + Visibility
My Own Professional Appearances
Platform + Content
Teaching + Mentoring
Literary Programs + Community

Book Development + Editorial Work

  • Dear Ellie — Shannon Halligran — developmental editing (2026)

  • The Ones Who Never Spoke — Angie Jefferson — developmental mentoring and Writing Roadmap (2026)

  • The Invisible Fight — Brian Moroni — Writing Roadmap, manuscript and publishing guidance, layout, KDP, and platform setup (2026)

  • Where’s Gideon? — Karen Rupp — copyediting and submission strategy (2026)

  • Operation No Coincidence — L.A. Long — editing; first book I edited (2009), later published by Soul Mate Publishing (2013)

Publishing + Book Production

Dream Your Book / client publishing

  • The Invisible Fight — Brian Moroni — developmental editing, publishing package, and platform development (2026)

  • After All — Frances I. Tepper — editing and publishing package (2026)

  • Witness to Two Worlds — Giovanna Campomizzi May — developmental editing, publishing package, and platform development (2020)

  • So Many Homelands — Berdjouhi Esmerian — developmental editing, publishing package, and platform development (2019)

  • Tire Mom — Diana Hubner — editing and publishing package (2019)

Cosmographia Books / press publishing

  • After Color — Malaika Favorite (2025)

  • Lesbian Love — Eve Adams ebook reprint (2024)

  • Fair Lady — Frances I. Tepper (2021)

  • There Is Only Lampyridae — Holly M. Hill (2018)

  • Blissful and Other Stories — Steven Huff (2017)

  • Saving Faith — Elizabeth Osta (2017)

Submissions + Literary Placement

  • Kathy Bonnez — “Dream Me” and “Where I Began” placed in Blueline, “Summer Fireworks” placed in Floating Acorn Review (2026)

  • Berdjouhi Esmerian — “Frog Legs” placed in Blue Lyra Review (2013)

  • Kathryn Bonnez — “Vermont’s Sacred Acre: Contemplation Welcome” — excerpt from A Lone Star in the Green Mountains placed in The Wayfarer Journal (2013)

  • Michael Krause — Smart Prospecting: That Works Every Time! — wrote book proposal; sold to McGraw Hill (2013)

Publicity + Visibility

  • Frances I. Tepper — spearheaded campaign that got the book onto the City Newspaper Best of Rochester ballot (2021).

  • Frances I. Tepper — wrote a press release that led to a Good Day Rochester / WHAM-13 television interview plus written interviews in the Democrat & Chronicle and 55+ (2021)

  • Fran Morse — pitched and landed Democrat & Chronicle interview (2015)

  • Terry Lehr — landed article “A Health ‘Massacre” in Rochester Leads One Historian Down a Curious Path” in GVhealth (2014)

  • Pat Ward-Baker — landed Her Rochester profile, “Pat Ward-Baker Is Out to Change Negative Stereotypes of Old Age” (2013)

  • Kathryn Bonnez — secured 55+ Magazine article (2013)

My Own Professional Appearances

  • “CosmoCon Part 2 - Nina Alvarez, Holley H. Hill, and Ron Searls,” The Last Word, WAYO 104.3 FM (2019)

  • “CosmoCon Part 1 - Nina Alvarez & Elizabeth Bodien,” The Last Word, WAYO 104.3 FM (2019)

  • “Halloween Spooktacular II: Featuring Nina Alvarez,” Write-to-Survive Podcast (2018)

  • Self-publishing talk at Writers & Books, Rochester, NY (2015)

  • “How Do You Self-Publish a Book?” invited self-publishing discussion with Evan Dawson on WXXI’s Connections (2014)

  • “The Quest(ion) of Self-Publishing” at Rundel Library, Rochester, NY (2013).

Platform + Content

Client/platform work

  • A Better, Not Bitter Divorce — BJ Mann — (2018)

  • Elderwriters — Sue Barocas — (2013)

  • A Lone Star in the Green Mountains — Kathryn Bonnez — (2013)

  • Kathy, You’re Not Lost to Me — Jackie McCullough — (2013)

Projects demonstrating media/content experience

  • SPATANS! — Audible production/publication (2026)

  • SPARTANS! audio-fiction podcast — writing, sound design, production (2025)

  • Camp Cosmographia — teaching, mentoring, web copy, and web design (2023)

  • WKOZ Camp Cosmographia Radio — hybrid fiction/teaching podcast; creator/producer (2023)

  • Another Notch in the Beltway audiobook — Audible production/publication (2020)

  • Lit Up! with Nina Alvarez — weekly radio show about writing and spirituality (2015)

Teaching + Mentoring

  • Camp Cosmographia — teaching and mentoring component (2023)

  • Wayfinding for Writers — launched in 2021 as a holistic creative, spiritual, and career coaching approach for aspiring authors.

  • Teen Intensive Playwriting — Writers & Books SummerWrite (2016)

  • Teen Intensive Fiction — Writers & Books SummerWrite (2012 - 2014).

  • Writers & Books Big Pencil Award for teaching young writers (2014)

  • Two writing talks at the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival (2013)

  • Established Canvas Teen Literary Journal and trained 12 teenage board members to run a literary journal (2013)

  • Monthly Teen Intensive Fiction workshops — Writers & Books (2012-2014)

  • Rewriting Your Fiction — Writers & Books (2011)

  • College-level composition and literature at Finger Lakes Community College and Monroe Community College, 2002–2005; received a fellowship for talented teachers.

Literary Programs + Community

  • Campfire Stories / contests / literary programming — annual Cosmographia literary programming, including themed fiction contests and audio productions (2025–2026)

  • CosmoCon 2019 — created and hosted a reading for Cosmographia authors (2019)

  • Cosmographia Books Spiritual Fiction Prize — created and administered through Cosmographia Books (2018)

  • Founded Cosmographia Books, evolving the earlier Cordage Books publishing project into an independent literary press (2015)

  • Published Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn issues of Canvas Teen Literary Journal (2013-2014 and 2019-2020)

  • Canvas Teen Literary Journal — established in 2013 and trained 12 teenage board members to run a literary journal

  • Follow Your Bliss magazine — co-created with Sandy Farnan and Raquel Pidal (2010)