
Good at: copy editing, writing
Bad at: web design
Books

Phoenix Dawn
Illustrated serial sci-fi adventure novel
Magazine Writing
Editorial

Copy Editing/
Proofreading
The Hunger Games (2008),
Suzanne Collins
Animorphs series (2011–2012),
K. A. Applegate
Goosebumps series (2010–),
R. L. Stine

Fact Checking
Superstars of Science (2015),
R. G. Grant
The Klutz Guide to the Galaxy (2011), Pat Murphy
Amazing Landmarks (2022), Rekha Rajan

Product Development
LEGO Chain Reactions (2015),
Pat Murphy
Straw Shooter Jets (2014),
Klutz Labs
Air Power: Rocket Science Made Simple (2014), Klutz Labs
About Me

Dan Letchworth (right) is a publishing professional with thirteen years’ experience, and is currently the copy chief of San Diego Magazine and its custom client publications.
He has copy edited hundreds of books for young readers for Scholastic, Hachette Book Group, and Penguin Random House, and created science and activity book projects for Klutz Press in Palo Alto and New York. He holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University.
His theater review blog, Everyone’s a Critic, was nominated for the 2019 National City & Regional Magazine Award for Best Online Column, and his fun facts column, Dansplaining, won the 2020 San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Award for Light Subject Magazine Column.
He self-publishes and does freelance editing under the business name Desert Owl Press, and doesn’t usually refer to himself in the third person, but finds self-promotion exceedingly uncomfortable.
Contact
desertowlpress@gmail.com