Contributed "Remembering Mr. Stress, Live at the Euclid Tavern" to RUST BELT CHIC: A Cleveland Anthology, a personal essay on a legendary blues musician I followed avidly for many years. 

Writer for Rust Belt Chic: A Cleveland Anthology

Acquired, edited and published COVERT: My Years Infiltrating the Mob by Bob Delaney and Dave Scheiber

Editorial Director, Union Square Press

Acquired, edited and published The Politics of Truth-A Diplomat's Memoir: Behind the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity by Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a NY Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller.

Editor-in-Chief, Carroll & Graf Publishers

Invited to be visiting editor at this major international book fair. After attending the Fair, I traveled to Prague where I met with Czech publishers who were newly liberated after the end of the Cold War.

Editorial Fellow, Jerusalem Book Fair

Philip Turner Book Productions offers a diverse menu of editorial services to authors, agents, publishers, and businesses that want a new polish to their writing.

Publisher – Philip Turner Book Productions

Franconia College was an experimental college located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The small school was a self-governing institution and a big part of my education there was participating in the governance of the college.

Authors Guild

National Book Critics Circle

Book Table

CBC Radio 3

PEN American Center

Philip Turner is a publisher, publishing consultant, writer, editor, curator, blogger, and independent editor & author representative. Since 2009, he has operated Philip Turner Book Productions, an editorial services business which represents select projects to publishers, and consults with authors on developing their work. He writes and curates two Wordpress blogs, The Great Gray Bridge and Honourary Canadian, where he covers books, publishing, current affairs, media, live music, and urban life. He attends the NXNE Festival in Toronto each June as accredited press. 

In 1986--after seven years formative experience operating Undercover Books, a three-store independent bookstore chain in Cleveland, Ohio--Philip began working as an editor for major publishing houses. Over the past 2 1/2 decades he has held a number of senior positions with publishers in New York City, acquiring and publishing many notable titles. As Senior Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Kodansha America and Kodansha Globe from 1992-1997, he published the first paperback edition of Barack Obama’s DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1996).

As Executive Editor of Times Books, then a division of Random House, Philip was the imprint’s liaison to the New York Times and published books with the editors of the NY Times Book Review, and such Times departments as Real Estate, Dining, Movies, City, and Health. While Executive Editor and Editor-in-Chief with Carroll & Graf from 2000-2006, Philip edited and published several New York Times and Washington Post bestsellers.

As an editor and publisher, Philip is known for publishing books by and about singular witnesses–-whistleblowers, truthellers, muckrakers, revisionist historians–-people who’ve passed through some crucible of experience that’s conferred on to them elevated author-ity, leaving them by definition the only person who could write the book in question, or about whom it could be written.

Whether told in the first person by an author who has passed through some crucible of experience that leaves them uniquely qualified to tell the tale, or in the third person by a reporter or scholar who has pursued a story or historical episode with single-minded passion, Philip is devoted to publishing imperative nonfiction, books that really matter in people’s lives. 

Storytelling

Content Development

Web Content & Editing

Freelance Writing & Blogging

Publishing

Live Music

Blogging

Philip Turner on C-Span

Honourary Canadian

Blog: Technology, Science & Computers

Blog: News, Politics & Media

Blog: Music, Bands & Radio

Blog: Urban Life & New York City

Blog: Books & Writing

Blog: Publishing & Bookselling

New York Publishing Industry Veteran Philip Turner Joins Speakerfile

Philip Turner Book Productions

The Great Gray Bridge

How authors can find readers amid the new publishing landscape defined by print-on-demand, ebooks, and social media

How authors can establish a memorable identity for themselves via blogging and their social networks. 

Navigating the Publishing Landscape; Building a Blog Identity for Authors

As an in-house editor at more than a half-dozen publishing companies over twenty-five years, one of my biggest challenges was always to try and keep somewhat current with the enormous volume of printed submissions that was continually flooding in across my desk. And once the Internet fully entered the workflow, the volume—owing to the greater ease with which agents and authors could submit material—took an exponential leap. This workshop highlights how to overcome publishing industry challenges.

Challenges Facing Agents & Editors in Publishing Today

Larry Johnson and Scott Baldyga

Authors of FROZEN: My Journey into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death (Vanguard Press, Perseus Books, 2009)

Robert Fuller

Robert W. Fuller, author of the novel The Rowan Tree; Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank; and All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity

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