Writing Portfolio for Phil Rice

I currently serve as publisher for all Canopic Publishing projects, including online and in-print publications. I began working professionally as an editor and writer in 1989. As a freelance writer, I have been commissioned by Athlon Sports Publications, The Easton Press, The Danbury Mint, the Business Journal, Harte-Hanks, and others. The craftsmanship for the majority of these pieces is necessarily directed toward commercial appeal rather than pure artistic accomplishment, but aesthetic considerations are never ignored.

Selected Introductions and Prefaces

• Introduction to The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier (2006)

• Introduction to The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by W.W. Jacobs (2006)

• Publisher's Preface for The Poetry of Robert Frost (2005)

• Publisher's Preface for Silas Marner by George Eliot (2005)

• Publisher's Preface for Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2005)

• Publisher's Preface for Dracula by Bram Stoker (2005)

• Publisher's Preface for The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (2004)

• Publisher's Preface for Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (2004)

• Publisher's Preface for The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (2003)

• Preface for The View from My Ridge by Charles E. Rice (2003)

• Publisher's Preface for The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (2002)

Selected Marketing Pieces:

• Press release for Bothering the Coffee Drinkers (Canopic, 2006)

• Press release for Between the Bones (Canopic, 2005)

• Collector Notes for Spies in the Himalayas (Easton Press, 2005)

• Collector Notes for Theodore Roosevelt's The Naval War of 1812 (Easton Press, 2005)

• Collector Notes for Black Hawk Down (Easton Press, 2004)

• Collector Notes for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Easton Press, 2004)

• Collector Notes for Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Easton Press, 2003)

• Collector Notes for The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison (Easton Press, 2003)

• Collector Notes for Blind Man's Bluff (Easton Press, 2003)

• Collector Notes for Forts Henry and Donelson (Easton Press, 1996)

• Collector Notes for We Were Soldiers Once . . .And Young (Easton Press, 1995)

Selected Miscellaneous Professional Compositions:

• Super Bowl Histories (Danbury Mint, 1999)

• NFL Mini-bios (Danbury Mint, 1999)

• Introduction for Earl Anthony's Bowling Guide (Athlon, 1990)