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)

Also on this site, you can find out about my own writing and the books I have had published, as well as my upcoming book signings and workshops in your area.

For those of you returning to visit, 2007 was such an exciting year. I got to develop a line of books for a toy company with some truly cool new technologies that will create an entirely innovative section in the mass market licensed category of electronic books. Look for them in stores like Target and WalMart in Spring 2009. Very exciting!

2007 was also a watershed year for my own writing despite the fact that I barely had time to breathe. I wrote three adaptations and five children's books for publication sometime in 2008. I'll post links when they are available. I'm especially happy about a novelty book, SAMMY'S SUITCASE, coming out with Robin Corey Books/Random House.

In my new venture with East/West Literary Agency, I review all the submissions and find those very rare gems that are 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)!

2008 is already the year of wowee inventions. My new venture, The Yes Factory, is dedicated to patenting, manufacturing, and getting to market new product inventions. The first one will be a snap-on spine called a Spine-dle(TM) that is compatible with Amazon's Kindle, the Wireless eReader, to make it easier to read books on the device without accidentally hitting the PREV and BACK pages. Here's to something hitting the wall and sticking!

In 2008 I was invited to join Los Angeles Editors and Writers Group (LAEWG). The link is over at the right if you are interested in exploring that group of colleagues, a lot of whom have academic and other specific nonfiction editing and writing credentials that may help those of you with those needs.

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.

Happy New Year! Keep writing! And remember: Hope means always having something pending in some editor's in-box.

All the best to you,

Lisa