This week, I officially inked a partnership with Adam Kleiner to be the editor of my next book, tentatively titled “The Collegewise Way.” Not surprisingly, he’s an old college buddy.
After I finished the first draft in December, I wanted to find an editor who could help produce a finished product that people would really enjoy reading. Not just somebody to fix the typos, but who could also be honest with me about my writing even it meant I’d have to delete entire chapters or completely change what I’d already written. We have several editors right here at Collegewise who I know would have been up to the job. But like me, they’re too close to the subject matter. Adam and I have enough history together that he’s a Collegewise fan who appreciates what I’m trying to do with this book. But he’s also far enough outside of the Collegewise fold that he won’t agree that something is good just because that’s the way we’ve always done it.
The arc of the Kevin and Adam story seems appropriate for this book. We’ve been friends since our college days at UC Irvine, where we were both English majors who loved to write almost as much as we loved our intramural soccer and post game beer. According to his production schedule, we’ll be toasting our book’s release early this summer. If you’d like to know when it’s available, you can sign up to be notified here.