WHY BEACON EDITORIAL?
With over 20 years editing a wide variety of texts, we act as experienced and reliable navigators for the editorial process, using PRECISION, ECONOMY AND INTEGRITY to shape the work into the best that it can possibly be. At the same time we are mindful of the fact that you, the Author, are ultimately the “captain of the ship”, and our responsibility is to help guide you to your destination.
How Do We Work?
We are primarily focused on Developmental & Copyediting. If possible, we prefer to get involved with the work early on. We work by the word, the hour, or by the project as the situation dictates, and our rates our within industry standards.
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LITERARY
Kicking In – Stories by Richard Wirick
Associate Editor
The Devil’s Water – Novel by Richard Wirick
Associate Editor
Transformation: A Journal of Literature, Ideas & the Arts
Founders: K. Dekleva, A. Robinson & R. Wirick
Co-Editors & Publishers: A. Robinson, R. Wirick & D. Ferguson
Works in Progress
The Ogre, a Novel – by Ben Steinhorn
The Black Circle, a Novel– by Blake Amedeo
Non-Fiction
Payback: Why the Top 1% Must Invest in the Rest and How it Can Renew America
Thomas Allen Moon, 2021
I was Developmental & Chief Editor for the project, which includes a book and an interactive website, published free of charge. I helped structure and organize the text, select Chapter headings and salient quotations. From the Author’s website:
About the Book
Payback: Why the Top 1% Must Invest in the Rest and How it Can Renew America offers an insider’s perspective on the ways that special interests have corrupted capitalism and the power of citizens to change it. A common-sense, non-ideological guide to U.S. tax policy, Payback explains who benefits from tax preferences, and what citizens can do to protect their interests. The author concludes with a bold plan for restructuring the tax system in order to fund the public investments necessary to keep the country competitive and to preserve the American ideal for all citizens.
About the Author
Thomas Allen Moon
As a public finance attorney and former watchdog with the SEC, I have 40 years of experience inside the U.S. tax system. Many of the tax deals I structured as a municipal bond lawyer overwhelmingly benefited corporate clients and the wealthy. Now that I’m retired, I consider it my duty to pay back America by educating others about the implications of tax policy for our country’s future. My book Payback is a clarion call for a more just tax system, brought about by greater leadership from the wealthiest and deeper engagement from the rest of us.
Click here to see my interview with the Author.
Hat of Candles: Essays 2008-2019
Vancouver B.C., 2021
I was the Developmental and Chief Editor for the book. From the Publisher’s website:
“Hat of Candles is a sparkling and trenchant collection of non-fiction ranging over qualities of mind that preoccupy most thinking people of our time. The political mysteries of China, Indonesia and India are featured in the Open Window section that begins the book. Portraits of writers, critics, artists and even secondary school teachers populate the marvelous range of the middle, ‘Biograph’ section… Every page offers new discoveries, new climes whose lakes and peaks are traced with Wirick’s impeccable poetic style.”
“Richard Wirick is the author of four books that have been translated into more than ten languages. One Hundred Siberian Postcards (2006), short memoir-fiction pieces, was a London Times Notable Book and nominated for the PEN/Bingham Award for best first work by an American writer. It was followed by another story collection, Kicking In (2010). The novel The Devil’s Water was published in 2014, and a new novel, Volta: Chapters Of The Ghost Year, is forthcoming in 2022, as well as a third story collection. He writes for a wide variety of periodicals in the U.S. and U.K., and is a senior voting member of the National Book Critics Circle.”
US Organic Farms: Investor Summary & Analysis
We took the 70-Page Investor Proposal and edited it down to a 3-Page Marketing piece which included SWOT, Ansoff, Five-Forces and PESTEL Analyses.
Technical
High-Performance Buildings: A Guide for Owners & Managers
A. Robinson, Editor, Fairmont-Taylor& Francis, Atlanta, GA, 2014
(MSMO) Optimization, Systems Engineering and High-Performance Sustainable Building
TechConnect World- Conference Proceedings, Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization
V. Chen, A. Robinson & S. Ferreira,Santa Clara CA, 2013
A Study of Multivariate Modelling for a Multi-Stage Multiple-Option (MSMO) Decision-Making Framework for Green Building
AEE World Conference Proceedings, Association of Energy Engineers – World Energy Engineering Congress
V. Chen, S. Ferreira, A. Robinson & P. Kung, Atlanta GA, 2012
Multivariate Analysis for a Green Building Decision Framework
INFORMS Conference Proceedings, International Conference of the Institute for Operations Research & Management Science
V. Chen, A. Robinson & P. Kung, Charlotte NC, 2011
A Testing Procedure for Conducting On-Site Evaluations of the Relative Solar Heat Gain Through Glazing Materials & Shading Attachments
National Solar Conference Proceedings, American Solar Energy Society
W. Griffith, A. Robinson & M. Montgomery, San Jose CA, 1994