These days, I'm consulting on book projects: fiction or nonfiction, proposals or manuscripts. I just edited a book, due out in a few months from UC Press, on some amazing species of ants--very fascinating. I advised a local novelist on her third book and am polishing a Jewish memoir. (Feel free to email for more info on what I do and for how much.) For ten years, I was the literary and arts editor at San Francisco magazine, the Bay Area's premier city and regional magazine.