Lisa Rojany Buccieri
and
EDITORIAL SERVICES OF
LOS ANGELES
(ESOLA)

If this is the first time you've been here, glad you could make it! If you're returning, glad you stopped by.

First off, you pronounce my name, Lisa Rojany Buccieri, ROW-ZHA-NEE BOO-CHEE-EH-REE. A mouthful, I know.

I am both an editor and writer. I run my own business, EDITORIAL SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES (ESOLA), in which I help writers make their work the best it can be while getting it ready for submission to publishing houses. I also do developmental creative consulting and book packaging for publishing houses and toy companies.

On this site you can find information about my business, EDITORIAL SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES, as well as details about my professional publishing credentials. (If you want to know what people say about me, go to www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/lbuccieri)

For those of you returning to visit, I've had a busy few years. I got to develop a line of electronic books for a toy company. Look for them in stores like Target and WalMart in Spring 2009. Very exciting! I also got to work with a publishing company to develop character-building books for kids.

On the side, I wrote three adaptations and five children's books that were published in 2008. I'm especially happy about a novelty book, SAMMY'S SUITCASE (Robin Corey Books/Random House). Look for SURVIVING THE ANGEL OF DEATH: THE STORY OF A MENGELE TWIN IN AUSCHWITZ, with Eva Kor in October 2009!

In my venture with East/West Literary Agency, I review all the submissions and find those very rare gems worth repping to pass on to the founder of the agency. Seventy percent of her clients are new talent or published writers trying new ventures, so I feel like Vespucci or Columbus or some other explorer (but female, and anchored to a desk wielding a purple pen instead of floating on the sea peering hopefully through a spyglass)!

And in a totally unrelated-to-books new venture, I founded The Yes Factory, dedicated to patenting, manufacturing, and getting to market new product inventions. Here's to something hitting the wall and sticking in 2009!

Because I have been so busy, I have been unable to lead writing workshops, but I can refer you to colleagues who can guide you in those endeavors, so email me if you are looking for writing workshops.

If you have any suggestions or comments, please email ESOLA by clicking the link in the right-hand column.

And even though the economy bites, we do have HOPE, don't we? (Hope means always having something pending in some editor's in-box.) So keep writing! And let me know if you need help with YOUR latest book!

All the best to you,

Lisa