The Editing Company is dedicated to helping authors achieve their goals, through manuscript critique, editorial assistance and/or hands-on collaboration.
Patricia Fried
Patricia Fried (Tish) got her start in editorial work as an art-director in the music industry. She left the music business when the president of the record company threw a compact disc at her head --- a little disagreement over the placement of a comma. "You learn to think fast in the music business, or at least you learn to punctuate." She adds, “I’ve always wanted to have my own company and to work with and support writers. Whether our clients are writing novels or non-fiction, the art of storytelling is now front and center in my life. The best stories are rooted in a personal sense of truth, and discovering that unique truth shouldn't be labor, but play. That's what Write Yourself Free(SM) is all about.”
Tish is currently working on getting the new Writers' Room up and going. It is a dedicated room where writers can work, take workshops, network, get writing support and just hang out.
Her collaborations have ranged from memoir to dramaturgy to website development and copywriting. She is currently working on a novel and a play. Columbia University, cum laude, BA. Tish lives in Westport, Connecticut with her teenage music-nerd son.
Patrick McCord, PhD
Patrick is a fugitive from Hollywood where he learned that his talents were more analytical than presentational. Putting his talents to work more constructively, he earned a PhD in Narratology (English) at the University of Georgia. He is an award-winning poet, published short story author, and he has sold teleplays and a screenplay. Before launching his own writing career, he worked in project development at both NY's Circle in the Square and LA's Mark Taper Forum. As a college professor, he has specialized in story- and identity-cognition in film and literature. His writing students at the University of South Carolina, Upstate, were regular award winners in the annual university-wide competitions. Patrick was honored to win the prestigious Mitchell Marcus Award in 1991. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Editing Company and is developing the Write Yourself Free(SM) Writing Manual.
Patrick believes that a lively imagination is essential to enjoying life, and that writing can change and even transform the imagination. Patrick lives in Westport, Connecticut.
Jenny Cox: Editorial Consultant
Jenny Cox is an editorial consultant and award-winning writer with more than 20 years of experience as a book editor. She began her publishing career at the Georges Borchardt, Inc. literary agency, and then moved to Simon & Schuster, where she was a senior editor specializing in both trade fiction and non-fiction. After Simon & Schuster, Jenny Cox helped launch Disney’s publishing arm, Hyperion Books, where she was named the company’s first Senior Editor.
While at Simon & Schuster, Cox worked with many bestselling authors, including Kate Millett (Sexual Politics), former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Arianna Huffington, Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld and many other celebrities. At Hyperion Books she acquired and edited both fiction and non-fiction, including a novel by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Stanley Elkin (Van Gogh’s Room at Arles) and the award-winning biography of Thomas Edison by Dr. Neil Baldwin (Inventing the Century). Cox prides herself on being a sensitive and skillful line editor, who works closely with authors. After she edited Kate Millett’s memoir, Millett wrote: “This wasn’t an easy book to do: eight years went into writing and rewriting it. It wouldn’t have seen the light of day without my editor, Jenny Cox, who believed in it, took the vast pile of manuscript, reduced it by half, and gave it what strength and coherence it has.”
Jenny Cox graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in the History and Literature of England and America. She has four children and lives in Connecticut.
Andy (A.J.) Gundell - Audio producer/Consultant
Have you ever thought about recording your written words? Ever thought about creating an audio book of your work--as a demo for presentation to prospective publishers; as a finished piece for sale on iTunes or Amazon; to post or podcast from your website; or to market directly in the form of a CD? Have the poets and storytellers among you considered the additional power and emotion that the sound of your voice, your own vocal performance, or the performance of a professional voice talent, might bring to your work?
Meet Andy Gundell. Andy is our new resident audio producer and associate. He’s built a career spanning 35 years in the music, entertainment, and media businesses around his passion for and fervent belief in the power of sound. Along the way, he has won 13 Emmy awards for his work as a composer, songwriter, singer, music supervisor and director, and post-production audio producer. His list of clients reads like a who’s who of major media: ABC; NBC; CBS; Fox; PBS; HBO; MTV; ESPN; NBA-TV; MLB Network; TNT; Disney; Reader’s Digest; Discovery; Cosby; A T & T. He spent much of the last year producing the audio for an innovative educational software product that involved original and licensed music, sound design and effects, voice-over recording, engineering, and post-production mixing. A Wilton resident, Gundell does much of his work from his own comfortable, state-of-the-art home recording studio. In addition to his long list of major clients, Andy has a special fondness for collaborating one-on-one with musicians at work on their demos and records, voice-over artists at work on their reels, writers at work on various audio projects. We are excited to have Andy on our team. Please give us a call and let us arrange a free consultation with him for your next audio project.
