I strongly see that the future of publishing lies in the electronic word — it is only a matter of time for e-books and e-publishing to overtake the printed page. The merger of these two technologies is where the future lies, and we must be ready for it.


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Nancy C. Hanger is an editor/copy editor/consulting editor who went freelance in the early 1990s, when she decided that commuting in the Information Age was a stupid idea. She specializes in genre fiction (including SF and fantasy) and Internet technology books, and has worked in both editorial and production capacities for various NY publishers for more than 18 years.

She has been a management consultant for Internet portal companies in the development of online communities, including Excite Corp. Her latest cowritten/developed book is the Internet World Guide to Essential Business Tactics for the Net (with Larry Chase).

Nancy is a monthly columnist for BYTE magazine (www.byte.com) (otherwise known in its online publication as simply BYTE.com), writing on a plethora of technological issues. Her column, titled "While Working..." is focused on those things we find on the Net and in technology while we are supposed to be working. Press contacts please note: email contact is preferred rather than phone contact during working days. Nancy will get back to you by email promptly regarding press releases on products you wish her to review or otherwise comment on.

She is currently director Windhaven™, which contracts prepress production & editing from mainstream publishers, and production manager of Baen Books (distributed by Simon & Schuster), working from her NH offices.

Her current clients include:

HarperCollins,  
St. Martin's Press (Tor Books),  
Penguin USA,  
Time-Warner Inc.,  
John Wiley & Sons,  
Morgan Kauffman Publishers,  
Byron Preiss Visual Publications  
(and their subsidiary, General Licensing Corp.),  
Learning International, Inc.,  
(a Times-Mirror Company),  
Baen Books,  
Avon Books 
Doubleday Direct (Doubleday Book Clubs) 
 

She lives in the "countrified" Northeast with three cats (Tam Lin, Genghis Khan, and Minerva); and upwards of 10,000 books (which live in a converted barn/library/weaving studio). Her peripatetic graphic artist (of Windhaven Imaging - which is in construction) has taken a good press photo of her. 

She occasionally enjoys speaking of herself in the third person. 

She is an advocate of privacy on the Internet; you can download her public PGP encryption key, as well as some light reading about PGP, if you feel so inclined. 

The editor speaks:  
I prefer to work using electronic media (editing on disk), which many of my clients use exclusively now, but I still use good old red pencils and style sheets for others — the world may be changing, but the publishing world is always a few years behind the trend in current technology: some traditions only change slowly. 

However, I strongly see that the future of publishing lies in the “electronic word” — it is only a matter of time for e-books and e-publishing to overtake the printed page. The merger of these two technologies is where the future lies, and we must be ready for it.