Gaetano Cessati

Selected Clients & Samples

• Independent authors published by the following presses:
  • The University of North Carolina Press
    • Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains (proofreading)
  • Yale University Press
    • Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present (proofreading)
• Adventure Publications
  • Waterfalls of Virginia & West Virginia: Your Guide to the Most Beautiful Waterfalls (proofreading)
  • Ohio Day Trips by Theme (proofreading)
  • Little Michigan: A Nostalgic Look at Michigan’s Smallest Towns (proofreading)
• Allworth Press
  • There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: A Complete Insider's Guide to Earning Income and Building a Career in Voice-Overs, 4th edition (copyediting)
  • How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery, 2nd edition (copyediting)
  • The Essentials of Theater: A Guide to Acting, Stagecraft, Technical Theater, and More (copyediting)
  • The Copyright Guide: How You Can Protect and Profit from Copyright, 4th edition (copyediting)
  • Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art (copyediting)
  • Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility, 2nd edition (copyediting)
  • Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer, 3rd edition (copyediting)
  • Selling Art without Galleries, 2nd edition (copyediting)
• Good Books
  • Highs & Lows of Type 1 Diabetes: The Ultimate Guide for Teens and Young Adults (copyediting)
• Sky Pony Press
  • Laws That Changed America (proofreading)
• Skyhorse Publishing
  • Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum (copyediting)
  • Passage to China: A Photographic Celebration of the Silk Road (proofreading)
  • Overcoming Cancer: The 5 Most Powerful Tools for Fighting Cancer (proofreading)
  • You're On!: The Theatre Quiz Book (proofreading)
  • The End of Breast Cancer: A Virus and the Hope for a Vaccine (copyediting)
  • Plants That Can Kill: 101 Toxic Species to Make You Think Twice (proofreading)
• Parallax Press
  • ​Mr. Pack Rat Really Wants That (proofreading)
  • The Seven Laws of Enough: Cultivating a Life of Sustainable Abundance (proofreading)
  • What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (proofreading)
  • Work That Matters: Create a Livelihood That Reflects Your Core Intention (proofreading)
  • Mindful Arts in the Classroom: Stories and Creative Activities for Social and Emotional Learning (proofreading)
  • Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass (proofreading)
  • Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education (proofreading)
  • The Idealist's Survival Kit (proofreading)
  • Fear, Illustrated: Transforming What Scares Us (copyediting)
• The University of Arizona Press​
  • Foreign Objects: Rethinking Indigenous Consumption in American Archaeology (proofreading)
  • After the Wildfire: Ten Years of Recovery from the Willow Fire (copyediting)
  • Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador (proofreading)
  • A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change (copyediting)
  • The Southwest: A Fire Survey (copyediting)​
  • The Northern Rockies: A Fire Survey (copyediting)​
  • Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881 (proofreading)
  • Born of Resistance: Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture (proofreading)
  • ​California: A Fire Survey (copyediting)​
  • The Darling (proofreading)
  • Florida: A Fire Survey (copyediting)
  • Native Studies Keywords (proofreading)
  • Other Country: Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists (copyediting)
  • The Quiet Extinction: Stories of North America's Rare and Threatened Plants (proofreading)​
• Wilderness Press
  • Afoot and Afield: San Diego County, 5th edition (copyediting)
  • Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention and Treatments for Athletes, 6th edition (copyediting)
  • Trail Running Bend and Central Oregon: Great Loop Trails for Every Season (copyediting)
  • 101 Hikes in Northern California, 3rd edition (copyediting)
  • Afoot & Afield Tahoe–Reno, 2nd edition (copyediting)
  • Top Trails: Lake Tahoe: Must-Do Hikes for Everyone, 3rd edition (copyediting)
• Clerisy Press
  • Gateway City: Covington, Kentucky, 1815–2015  (copyediting)
• Menasha Ridge Press
  • Best Tent Camping: Pennsylvania, 2nd edition (copyediting)
  • Canoeing & Kayaking South Central Wisconsin (copyediting)
  • Best Hikes of the Appalachian Trail: Mid-Atlantic (copyediting)
  • Best Hikes of the Appalachian Trail: South (copyediting)
  • Best Hikes of the Appalachian Trail: New England (copyediting)
  • Land Between The Lakes Outdoor Handbook, 2nd edition (copyediting)
  • Best Tent Camping: Tennessee, 2nd edition (copyediting)
  • 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Cincinnati, 2nd edition (copyediting)
• La Reserva Forest Foundation
  • Progress reports:
    • Help a Family and Save a Rainforest (research and content)
    • Help a Girl, and the Forest as Well (research and content)
    • It’s a Win/Win Situation (research and content)
  • Newsletter article:
    • Monkey Bridges (research and content)
• Alabama Wildlife Center
  • Provide ongoing textual content and copyediting for website, newsletter articles, and social media posts
• Professional book chapter: “On Specialization.” In Musings, Meanderings, and Monsters, Too: Essays on Academic Librarianship, ed. Martin Raish (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003), 166–71. (content, copyediting, proofreading)

• E-books
  • PoemBrief no. 1: The World Is Too Much With Us (PoemBriefs) [Kindle Edition] (content, copyediting, proofreading, and e-formatting)
    • PoemBriefs are quick and convenient introductions to individual classic poems, intended to enhance the reader’s understanding of and appreciation for each poem–and for poetry in general. Each PoemBrief contains a challenging poetic masterpiece, briefly and logically explained for busy people. No time for a lecture? Get Briefed!
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (illustrated by Gustave Dore) [Kindle Edition] (content, copyediting, proofreading, and e-formatting)
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner was originally published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. This electronic edition includes Coleridge’s marginal notes from the 1817 edition and French artist Gustave Dore’s illustrations produced in 1870.