Steve has been an editor, publisher, and market researcher for more than three decades. He has worked in almost every academic discipline (the exceptions are engineering and physics) and on every type of book: traditional print books, first editions, minor revisions, major revisions, rebrandings, derivative versions, e-books, and digital-native texts. He has also written thousands (and thousands) of assessment questions at every level of Bloom’s Taxonomy, with an emphasis on scenario-based, critical-thinking questions. Several of the titles he acquired have become market leaders in their courses.
Steve is also a best-selling novelist. In 2014, Oprah chose his novel The Outsmarting of Criminals as one of the five best mysteries of 2014. In addition to four mysteries, he has written two nonfiction titles. He has twice won Deadly Ink’s David award for best mystery of the year.
An avid fan of mysteries published in the 1930s to 1960s, he lives in northern New Jersey, where he plays classical flute with the Ramsey Wind Symphony. You can view his video book reviews on his YouTube channel, Forgotten Mysteries.
If I weren’t a writer/editor I would be: a consumer advocate.
My morning routine is: utter a profanity when the alarm goes off, hit the snooze alarm twice, open all the shades to let the sunlight in, and drink a tall glass of iced tea to jump-start my brain.
I most admire: anyone who is extraordinarily good at what they do.
My superpower is: being able to remember tiny details buried somewhere in the middle of a 1,000-page manuscript.
