Karen A

Professional Bio

Karen Livecchia is an experienced publishing professional based in New York City. She has worked as Managing Editor of Cosimo Books and as a Developmental Editor at Managing Editorial Services in New York.

Currently, Karen is a publishing consultant and developmental editor with thirteen years of editorial experience. She is highly motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit and top-notch organizational skills. Karen presents her best work to the publishing industry as well as to the reading public.

She is an active participant in the literary community. Her experience includes being designated a Branded Partner at Pubslush, a literary-oriented crowd funding platform, and she is a freelance developmental editor at Brown Books. Karen is a Featured Editor (on a freelance basis) at the soon-to-be re-launch of Nunabooks, a digital platform, which assists authors in their publishing process.

As a long-time member and volunteer with PEN American Center in New York, she has participated in many volunteer opportunities offered there. She is a past president of the New York City chapter of The Womens National Book Association as well.

Karen earned an A.L.B. in Humanities with honors from Harvard University and holds an M.S. in Publishing from New York Universitys School of Continuing and Professional Education.

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Throughout my professional career, I have worked in an innovative and customer-centric work environments. My extensive skills, background, and experience enable me to achieve significant success in a development and/or management role.

Oriented toward an entrepreneurial spirit during my six-year stint as Managing Editor at Cosimo Books, an innovative, independent print-on-demand publisher in NYC (as well as in my own consulting and editing services business), I created product lines as well as curated and managed content toward re-print titles for Cosimos growing brand of print-on-demand titles.

Additionally, I was instrumental in building a smooth-running publishing program along with the implementation of systems, tools and processes for Cosimos editorial and marketing teams in an exclusively online publishing environment.

In my previous position at LearningMate Solutions, a global e-learning company, my primary responsibility was to staff editorial teams of freelancers and client contacts in a fast-moving marketplace to create innovative digital content for online learning environments. One of my primary responsibilities was to liaise with editorial services team in India as well as in the U.S.

Contact Karen

TEL: (917) 887-8336 | E-MAIL: kalivecchia@hotmail.com | WEB: www.eatsleepbooks.com