MARIE MUNDACA
917-214-0863 ▪ marie at snevil dot com

EXPERIENCE

• Interior and cover design for print and e-books

Freelance Production and Design 1991–present

• Interior and cover design for books, and marketing materials design.
• Writing, copyediting, and proofreading.
• Design and consultation on websites.
• Purchasing printing and other materials for publishers and websites.
• Consulting and training in art and layout programs.
• Volunteer design work for non-profit organizations.

Recent projects include This Is Water (Little, Brown). Dorkismo (Accidental Books), XKCD Vol. 0(BreadPig).

Freelance Writing 1999–present

• Entertainment writer for New York Waste (1999–2003).
• Literary criticism and personal essays, Hipster Book Club (2007–present).
• Book reviews for booksquawk.com blog (2009–present).

Recent essays and reviews have been picked up by kottke.com and observer.com

Production Manager Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, New York, NY 9/06–9/09

• Produced books and jackets for four-color, two-color and one-color books, such as Heirloom Cooking, The West Point Atlas of War series, Mad Science, and Broadway Musicals.
• Negotiated prices, selected vendors, administered schedules, trafficked materials, evaluated color proofs, and coordinated shipping from overseas vendors.
• Reviewed files from freelance designers for proper set-up and accuracy.
• Administered Amazon and Barnes and Noble search-inside online projects.
• Hired and oversaw in-house temps and freelancers.
• Sourced vendors for printed marketing materials such as display headers, blads, and postcards.

Accomplishments: Introduced several new vendors resulting in 10-20% savings over similar projects. Won New York Book Show Best of Category, Scholarly and Reference and Printing Industry Association of the South Best of Genre for The West Point Atlas of War series. Completed entire production schedule for a four-book series, from scanning art and typesetting to bound books, in under four months.

Associate Production Manager Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY 1/03–9/06

• Produced books for Little, Brown and Back Bay adult titles, from manuscript to bound book.
• Provided art direction for book interiors and budget projections for book pricing.
• Selected and scheduled compositors, printers, freelance designers, illustrators, and mapmakers.
• Purchased components, such as printed endpapers, inserts, and printing for odd-sized titles.
• Issued and administered schedules for copyediting, editorial, and printers.
• Trafficked art between editorial and color separators and conducted frequent bindery and press checks.
• Designed books and inserts and managed all responsibilities associated with book design, such as providing comp instructions, marking up manuscripts, and checking pages for design.
• Maintained electronic files for audio, e-books, and in-house archive.

Accomplishments: Facilitated transition from Quark to InDesign. Produced “crash” titles such as The Beautiful Fall, John Dean’s Worse Than Watergate, and A Salty Piece of Land. Worked directly with high profile authors like Berkeley Breathed and David Foster Wallace.  

Marketing Production Manager Random House, New York, NY 6/00–2/02

• Produced sales and marketing material, including point-of-purchase displays, posters, catalogs, postcards, and monthly sales pieces for Doubleday, Broadway, Nan A. Talese, and other imprints.
• Secured competitive bids from vendors and purchased printing, resulting in over 10% savings overall.
• Scheduled processes and designed, copyedited, and reviewed proofs for content and color.
• Developed and managed an ongoing intranet project consolidating book display information for online viewing making it easier to choose existing displays for books.
  

Production Manager Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, NY 3/99–6/00

• Produced four-color catalog, managed editorial process, and hired freelance copywriters, proofreaders, and indexers.
• Worked closely with art directors on design, electronic layout, pre-press (scanning color images for publication, color corrections, flight-checking, and reviewing printer proofs), print, and buying paper.
• Designed book covers and interiors, and catalog and promotional materials.
• Provided cover files and wrote marketing content for online booksellers, such as amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Borders.
• Assisted extensively with the production of two web sites (watsonguptill.com and hart2draw.com), designed enhanced PDF versions of catalogs, and maintained an archive for electronic files.
• Developed and implemented a marketing editorial style guide for in-house and freelance use.
  

Production Manager Natural History Magazine, New York, NY 9/92–3/99

• Managed editorial production of a four-color consumer title, Natural History, including scheduling, extensive vendor contact, supervising editorial and production work flow, and all electronic pre-press.
• Estimated and purchased printing
• Designed and handled electronic pre-press for ads, brochures, and other promotional material.
• Designed, coded, and maintained the Natural History website
• Generated financial and budget reports, recommended hardware and software purchases, and trained new and temporary employees on technology.

Associate Production Manager BMT Publications, New York, NY 7/88–3/91

• Produced four-color trade titles. Scheduled all production activities, trafficked editorial and advertising material, and designed advertisements.