{"id":1146,"date":"2011-08-28T23:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T03:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1146"},"modified":"2022-11-20T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T18:20:35","slug":"editorial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a rigorous yet flexible editor, with one hand on the <em>AP Stylebook<\/em> and the other holding firm to the <i>Chicago Manual of Style, <\/i>the\u00a0result of a\u00a0twenty-five-year career spent split between book publishing and journalism. Currently I am the senior acquisitions editor for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\">University of Illinois Press<\/a>&#8216;s regional trade imprint, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/wordpress\/introducing-3-fields-books\/\">3 Fields Books<\/a>, as well as titles in Chicago politics, architecture, food, and natural history. I am also a senior editor with <a href=\"https:\/\/southsideweekly.com\">South Side Weekly<\/a>, a nonprofit news outlet dedicated to supporting cultural and civic engagement on Chicago&#8217;s South Side, and to developing emerging journalists, writers, and artists.<\/p>\n<p>I am available for select freelance editorial work, at both the developmental and line-editing stage. My areas of expertise are memoir and personal essays, urbanism, Midwestern history and culture, and food\u2014but I am fundamentally a generalist. For more, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my\u00a0resume, <\/a>or get in touch at <a href=\"mailto:martha.bayne@gmail.com\">martha.bayne@gmail.com<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus content!<\/strong> Got some time to kill? I am fond of this audio piece\u2014about the olden days at the <em>Reader<\/em>, about the death of newspapers, and about being edited by me\u2014written and performed by Christopher Piatt for his weekly variety series, <a href=\"http:\/\/thepapermacheteshow.com\/\">the Paper Machete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/cXEkM_4HVqw\">Christopher Piatt on Martha Bayne, part 1 of 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/E2pK8uNvz-M\">Christopher Piatt on Martha Bayne, part 2 of 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a rigorous yet flexible editor, with one hand on the AP Stylebook and the other holding firm to the Chicago Manual of Style, the\u00a0result of a\u00a0twenty-five-year career spent split between book publishing and journalism. Currently I am the senior acquisitions editor for the University of Illinois Press&#8216;s regional trade imprint, 3 Fields Books, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/editorial\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1146\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}