Members of the family: Your book manuscript is the
child of your heart. When I take on a project to mentor (or "foster")
that book becomes a member of my family as well. The books at right in the
family portrait and books and authors listed below are many of the members of
my extended literary family. You have my permission to contact any of these
authors about my work.
Note that
while I edit under my own name, I often
design under the pseudonym Luci Mott.
Albert A. Bell, Jr.
*All
Roads Lead to Murder (IPG 2002) - editing
*Blood
of Caesar (IPG 2008)- editing &
text design/typesetting
*Death
Goes Dutch (IPG) - editing
*Perfect Game, Imperfect Lives (independent) - editing
*Secret
of the Lonely Grave (IPG 2008) - editing
*Secret of the Bradford House (IPG 2010)
- editing, cover design, book design
*Corpus Conundrum (IPG 2011) - editing, text
design/typesetting, cover design
Harvard
Ayers
Arctic Gardens: Voices from an Abundant Land (Artic
Gardens Press 2010) - editing & text design/typesetting
Donald
A Berman, MD
*Mount Doomsday (IPG
2008) - editing
Maggie
Bishop’s Appalachian Adventure Series
*Appalachian
Paradise (IPG 2004) - editing
*Emeralds
in the Snow (IPG 2005) -
editing & text design/typesetting
*Murder at Blue Falls
(IPG 2007) - editing & text
design/typesetting
*Perfect
for Framing (IPG 2009) - editing
*One Shot Too Many (IPG 2011) -
editing, text design/typesetting & cover design
"Editor Judy Geary has not
only made
my books better, but working with her has made me a better writer. We worked
together on the text design to create the look I wanted. During the process,
she is thorough and works in a timely manner. I am so thrilled with the results
that I highly recommend her." – Maggie Bishop
Pearle Bishop
Cleo's Oak (Independent 2012) -
Skip Brooks
*Monteith's
Mountains (IPG 2002 ) - editing
Lissa Brown
Family Secrets: Three
Generations (Independent 2011) - book design
Another F Word
(Independent
2013) - book design
Family of Choice
(Independent
2015) - book design
Michael
K. Brown
*Promise
of Silver (IPG 2014) -editing, cover design, book design
Steve
Brown
The
Pirate and the Belle (Chick Springs Press
2010) - veting of historical detail & research (set in 1718)
Reed Bunzel
*Palmetto Blood
(IPG 2013) editing,
book design
*Carolina Heat
(IPG 2015) editing,
book design
Noyes Capehart
Devil’s Mark
(Independent
2014) editing, book design
Ann Chamberlin, winner of the Critic's Choice Award
for Outstanding Historical Fiction
*Gloria:
The Merlin and The Saint (IPG 2006 ) - editing
"Credit goes first, with this
volume
of the Joan of Arc Tapestries, to Judy Geary, my editor ... who caught up
the fallen banner with a cry of "Excelsior." Her long suffering, her
patience, and most important, her constant faith, kept me going through some
hard times." -- Ann Chamberlin
Casey Clabough
*Confederado (IPG 2011)
- editing, cover design, text design
Marian Coe, Women’s Fiction and Memoir
*Between
Us - editing & text
design/typesetting
*Once
Upon a Different Time (IPG 2004) - editing &
veting historical details
*Rachel’s
Story: A Southern Girl in Pre-Civil War
Boston (IPG 2006)- editing & veting historical details
Clark
Cox
*Deadly
Greed (IPG 2004)- editing
Susan Craft
*The Chamomile (IPG 2011)
- editing, text design
Brad
Crowther
*The
Ninth Man (IPG 2011) - editing, text design
Tom Deitz, winner Georgia Author of the Year for
Young Adult Fiction
*Windmaster’s
Bane (IPG 2006)- editing of the
updated collectors edition, typesetting
A.H.
Felman
*Legend
of the Feather Pillow (IPG 2004)- editing
"My special thanks to Judy
Geary ...
for her tireless effort to convert a raw manuscript into a novel." -- A.
H. Felman, MD
Judith
Geary
*Getorix:
The Eagle and the Bull (IPG 2006) - author
*Getorix’s
World: (IPG 2007) Curriculum to
accompany the novel, Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull - author, - editing &
text design/typesetting & cover design
*Getorix: Games of the Underworld (IPG
2011) - author, text
and cover design
Gail
E. Haley
*Madwomen of Meriweather (IPG 2015) editing, cover design, book
design
High Country Writers (Anthologies of Members’
works)
High Country Headwaters,
edited by Nora Percival (Independent 2012) – book design
High Country Headwaters II,
edited by Anita Laymon (Independent 2014) – book design
Lila Hopkins, Christian Romantic Suspense
*Strike a Golden Chord (IPG 2004) - editing
*Weave
Me a Song ( IPG 2007)- editing & text
design/typesetting
*The
Master Craftsman (IPG 20010) - editing & text
design/typesetting
"The success of a book depends
a lot
on the working relationship between author and editor, and I am so grateful for
the best editor in the world. I love and admire you, Judy!" -- Lila
Hopkins
Cameron Judd, author of over 50 books, over 2
million in print, commentator for Movies in Time
*Boone:
A Novel of an American Legend - editing of reissue
schuyler kaufman
*Dear
Mouse ... (IPG 2002) - editing
Mike Manuel & Larry Timbs, Jr
*Fish Springs (IPG 2014)
-editing, cover design, book design
Sharyn McCrumb, NY Times bestselling author
of St. Dale and the Ballad Series
Once
Around the Track - editorial reading
*Faster
Pastor (IPG 2010) - editing, text
design/ typesetting & cover design
"Judith Geary is the wise and
wonderful fairy godmother that all new authors need to guide them through the
maze of publishing. With her expertise in publishing and her superior editing
skills, she will guide your book-in-progress to a happy ending." – Sharyn
McCrumb
Birgitta McGalliard
Lives Divided
(Independent 2014) – editing,
text design/ typesetting & cover design
Pat Mettaini Mestern
*No
Choice But Freedom - editing
*Magdalena’s Song - editing
"Judith Geary ... has done
a stellar
job of editing, keeping the project on track and bringing No Choice but Freedom
to successful fruition." -- Pat Mettaini Mestern
Troy D. Nooe
*The Ocean Forest
(IPG 2011) editing &
book design
*Damn Yankee
(IPG 2012) editing & book
design
*Long-Legged Rosie
(IPG 2015) editing
& book design
Nora
Lourie Percival
*Weather
of the Heart: A Child’s Journey Out of
Revolutionary Russia (IPG 2002)- editing
Silver Pages on the Lawn (independent 2006) - editing
Pell Mell: X Marks the Plot (independent 2008) - editing
& text design/typesetting & cover design
Judith Geary has been my editor
for all
three of my published books and her services have been invaluable. In addition
to precise editing, imaginative design ideas and ingenious problem-solving, she
offers the writer infinite good will and wise professional advice. She is an
editor to treasure." -- Nora Percival
Peter
Petschauer
In the Face of Evil (Perspecktiven Presse 2014) editing, cover design, book
design
Charles
F. Price
*Where the Waterdogs Laughed (IPG
2007)- editing
Terry
Roberts
*A Short Time to Stay Here (IPG 2012) editing, cover design, book
design
Rose Senehi
*Pelican Watch (IPG 2008) – editing, book design
Paul Sinor
*Wrath of the Dixie Mafia
(IPG 2015) editing, cover design, book design
Mark
Terry
*Dirty
Deeds (IPG 2003)- editing
Judy
Elizabeth Jones Ward
Sarah’s
Song: A Journey through Dark Ridge, Avery
County, North Carolina - editing & text design/typesetting
& cover design - published by
M.R.S. J’s Books
"Thank you again for your guidance
and professional skills in getting my book to print. I’m not sure I could have
done it without you." – Judy Ward
Donna
Akers Warmuth
*Plumb
Full of History (IPG 2004)– editing
Clara Wisdom
What Lorna Knows
(Independent 2013) editing, cover design, book design
Glenn
Woods
*Essence: This child ghost wants to tell you her
story (IPG 2004) - editing - editing
* published by Ingalls
Publishing Group (work contracted by IPG)