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Marit Agency is a total-spectrum
editorial services company owned and
operated by Bob Shuman, a senior
editor with almost twenty years
experience in New York trade book
publishing. Bob has worked at
William Morrow, John Wiley and
Sons, and Macmillan Publishers. He
has had experience in editorial
management, single title and series
publishing, and the creation of a
brand extension. Known for building
publishing enterprises that deliver a
high quality of product and service,
Bob has provided hands-on editorial
support in areas as diverse as
Business, Entertainment, Politics,
Military, Sports, and New Age.
Among the titles Bob has
conceptualized are The Conservative
Bookshelf by Chilton Williamson, Jr.,
(Alternate Selection of American
Compass Book Club); The Seasons: Ten
Memorable Years in Baseball and America
by best-selling author Bill Gilbert
(foreword by Larry King); and Special
Forces in Action by Kevin Dockery with
E. Abbrecht (Alternate Selection of the
Military Book Club).
Bob edited 50 Plus!: Critical Career
Decisions for the Rest of Your Life by
Robert L. Dilenschneider called
"valuable reading" by The New York
Times and J. K. Lasser's Your Winning
Retirement Plan by Henry K. Hebeler,
which Business Week named a "best
retirement guide." Other titles Bob
has edited include: Bad & Beautiful:
Inside the Dazzling and Deadly World of
Supermodels by Ian Halperin, which
mega-selling author Jackie Collins
named the "best book of 2002"; No
Soul Left Behind: The Words and Wisdom
of Edgar Cayce was called "the best
Cayce-based book ever published" by
the Cayce foundation. Liza Minnelli,
commenting on The Liza Minnelli
Scrapbook by Scott Schechter and
edited by Bob said, "All the other
books about me are B.S. This is the
only one that matters."
Bob has been highlighted in Publishers
Weekly, Financial Planning magazine,
and the Washington Times. He has
attended the Sewanee, Iowa, and Blue
Ridge writer's conferences--and he has
presented books at the American
Library Association. As someone
who has written himself, he knows
how to talk and work with
writers--he won the Zarkauer Award
for Excellence in Playwriting from
Hunter College and, in 2003, he was
named a Fellow at the Lark Theater
Company, a developmental lab space
in New York; the Second Stage
Theatre in Manhattan also gave a
reading of his play Dedication during
that year.
Elsewhere, Bob has provided editorial
work on books by Sidney Sheldon,
Barbara Bush, Caroline Kennedy,
Prince Charles (with Jonathan
Dimbleby), Debbie Reynolds, Anne
Edwards, and Charles Grodin; he
oversaw Deborah Laake's best-seller
Secret Ceremonies as well. For reprint,
he acquired Evenings with Cary Grant,
written by Grant's close friend Nancy
Nelson and Eleanor and Harry, which
was named a New York Times Notable
Book of the Year (2002). Bob also
brought Rabbi Benjamin Blech to
Alpha Books for several very
successful Judaica titles. Bob is a
graduate of Washington and Lee
University and he holds an M.F.A. in
Dramatic Writing from New York
University.