Select Press

Dr. Rick Crandall founded Select Press in 1985 as a follow-on company to prior small companies that had published newsletters, a book for the Smithsonian Institution, etc. He continues to act as a consultant for it and as an occasional editor or project developer.

Services and Capabilities / Book and Newsletter Packaging

• Ghost writing (If you want to publish a book but don’t have the time or the inclination to write, we can help you. We will interview you—or give us tapes of your talks—and we will write the book for you.)
• Developmental editing (to enlarge and clarify content)
• Book proposals (advise or write)
• Conceptual editing (for content and editing for high readability)
• Library, phone, and online research
• Copy editing (technical, grammar, punctuation)
• Page design
• Composition (into page proofs for author[s] to review)
• Graphics and editorial sidebar material (research and selection)
• Production of galleys (including front and back matter [frontice, table of contents, index, bibliography])
• Galley corrections
• Indexing
• Proofreading
• Gathering testimonials (we find names or you provide)
• Cover design
• Glossary production
• Referencing
• Act as a general advisor (including on how to best package the book to maximize sales, how to get an agent or publisher; and how to self-publish)
• List Broker
• Arrange for bookstore distribution

Select Press has a number of divisions or products:

• We own Press Lists, a list broker registered in the SRDS directory for many years. If you regularly rent lists and know most of the lists you need, we can save you 25% on your brokerage costs. We will handle your orders for 15% instead of the normal 20% commission. We can also find lists for you, but only for ongoing clients.-- It packages books for publishing companies and self-publishers. This includes a variety of services from editing books, to cover design, to setting up bookstore distribution. We have special procedures to make books more visually appealing and readable with specific editing rules, page design, editorial sidebars, subheads, etc. Do you want a book published?
• Ghostwriting, developmental editing and other product creation. We have written chapters or books for authors. We have also taken a mass of useless material and extracted a useful boklet, chapter, or more. For an article on ghostwriting click here.
• the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality is a true interdisciplinary journal that publishes papers from fields such as psychology, business, speech, and others. It is a radical journal in a number of ways. It has an unusual committment to finishing reviews in an average of 5 weeks or less and publication in an average of 4 months. As an independent journal unaffiliated with and association or university, it funds itself with page costs for accepted papers. It tries to make its reviews useful for authors. While most papers are initially rejected, about 50% are eventually published after revisions. The journal has published about 15 special issues focused on particular topics from Gender, to Self-Actualization, to Workplace issues. Subscriptions are only $35 for individuals and $70 for institutions. Yearly issues vary from 600 pages total to well over 1000.
• the Construction Claims Citator is a technical research tool and casefinder for lawyers working on construction litigation in more than one state. It reviews appeal decisions from 12 unique sources in 16 pages monthly. It costs $375 per year.
• past projects have included email newsletters, Ken Blanchard's newsletter, Executive Edge, and a number of construction newsletters.
• Want publicity?

EDITING BACKGROUNDER
I’ve edited psychology material for thirty years and business material for fifteen. I've evolved editing rules that make any material more readable, in a way that can be documented.

• Editor, Hard Money Digest; The Jorgensen Report (investment newsletters).
• Ghostwriter of successful stock market investment book.
• Consultant on publishing issues from Web sites to distribution.
• Author of Marketing Your Services: For People Who HATE to Sell (McGrawHill, 1996; 2nd ed., 2003) and 1001 Ways to Market Your Services: Even If You Hate to Sell (McGrawHill, 1998).
• Editor and marketing columnist, five years, Executive Edge (popular middle manage-ment newsletter).
• Editor, Ken Blanchard’s Profiles of Success, two years (top management case studies).
• Past editor of three other popular business newsletters in specific industries.
• Editor, Learning Organizations (Portland, OR: Productivity Press; 1995).
• Editor of Marketing Magic: Proven Pathways to Success (1996) and 10 Secrets of Marketing Success: How to Jump Start Your Marketing (1997).
• Co-editor of 5 academic books, co-author of one; the latest is Occupational Stress: A Handbook (New York: Taylor & Francis, 1995).
• Managing editor for 14 academic books, including Work and Family; Mood and Memory, Type A Behavior; and Gender in the Workplace.
• Editor of the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality since 1985.
• Published over 50 academic articles and 100 popular business articles.
• Have been an editor or reviewer for eight journals, several book publishers, the National Science Foundation, Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook, etc.
• Publisher of an attitudes research book for the Smithsonian Institution.
• Past-President of the largest small publishers association in the country.
• Taught approximately 1000 seminars on applied business, marketing, entrepreneurship, etc. Taught several seminars on how to run a publishing company.
• Taught How to Write a Nonfiction Book extension course (College of Marin, Napa Community College, and the Writers Center of Marin).
• Ph.D. Psychology, University of Michigan, 1974.