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Welcome to the Westchester Publishing Services Client Portal version 2019.C.05, now more user friendly and feature rich to improve your productivity as publications move through the workflow. And as always, our Client Portal is Free for Westchester client projects. Later this year, you will be able to use our Client Portal for publications you manage entirely in-house (certain conditions will apply).

Enhancements include:

  • Improved Dashboard Timeline
  • Enhanced UI Rollovers
  • Sortability
  • New Data Export Options
  • and added Upload/Download Capabilities

Contact us to learn more about how the Client Portal can help you better track and manage your editorial and production projects with Westchester.

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager

Westchester is proud to be celebrating 50 years of providing publishers with quality pre-press services. The ways that content can be delivered and accessed are more numerous now than at any other time since Gutenberg invented the printing press, but our primary mission continues to be ensuring that we consistently deliver excellent customer service and finished files to our clients on every project we handle. Read on to see some of the significant moments that began our golden anniversary year:

Publishers Weekly Westchester Publishing Services 50th Anniversary coverWestchester turns 50!

Westchester began operations in 1969, and during the past 50 years the company has grown and evolved into what is currently the only U.S. based firm whose exclusive business has always been as a provider of pre-press services for publishers. We shared the celebratory news in the February 18 edition of Publishers Weekly, which also included this letter from President and CEO, Paul J. Crecca.

 

Macmillan Publishers U.S. HeadquartersMacmillan U.S. extends contract with Westchester

In late March, after reviewing a number of options for handling their book composition requirements, Macmillan Publishers signed a new agreement with Westchester to continue providing U.S. managed book composition services for virtually all of their U.S. trade titles. We’re pleased that this long-term partnership which began nearly 30 years ago in 1992, will continue to grow stronger in the years to come.

 

Tim Davies, Tyler M. Carey and Dennis PistoneLondon Book Fair

Members of the Westchester management team from the United States and United Kingdom returned to the Olympia this past March for London Book Fair. It was a busy three days of appointments with clients, prospective customers, and publishing industry friends. London Book Fair also provided the ideal backdrop to raise a celebratory glass to 50 years of success. Take a minute to enjoy some of the highlights in this installment of Travels with Tyler.

 

Tyler M. Carey attends the International Studies Association 2019 Conference

International Studies Association Conference

The month of March had a double meaning for our international ambassador of publishing services, a/k/a Chief Revenue Officer, Tyler M. Carey. He received a few more stamps in his passport as he made his way from London Book Fair, to Toronto, Ontario, for the 60th Annual International Studies Association convention. Catch up on highlights of his Canadian trip in this bonus edition of Travels with Tyler.

 

Westchester UK website

The UK office in Stratford upon Avon is off to a very strong start. This past February, we launched the new Westchester Publishing Services UK website to help publishers based in the UK and Europe learn more about the various editorial and typesetting options we can provide for their publications. Take a look around and let us know what you think!

 

Tim Davies, Managing Director, Westchester Publishing Services UKMeet Tim Davies

If you’re a reader of our blog, you may be familiar with the profiles we publish periodically focusing on key personnel within the Westchester organization. In this recent post, we introduce you to Tim Davies, Managing Director of Westchester Publishing Services UK.

 

SXSW EDU 2019

In March, Westchester K-12’s Kevin J. Gray and Tim Cross attended the SXSW EDU conference in Austin, TX. Between appointments with clients and prospective customers, they had the opportunity to listen to sessions led by thought leaders and innovators in the education field. Read Kevin’s conference summary.to learn some of the conference highlights.

 

A positive ripple effect

A presenting sponsor of the SXSW EDU conference this year was Chevron, who is also a corporate partner of DonorsChoose.org, an online platform where public school teachers are able to submit funding requests for their classroom projects. Find out how receiving a gift card to DonorsChoose.org at the conference became the catalyst for a new initiative being led by our K-12 team.

 

Unfamiliar becomes familiar with award-winning

Westchester K-12 is now officially an award-winning team! The graphic novel Unfamiliar, an original work for middle grade readers that was conceptualized and created by our colleagues in Dayton, recently received an award from the Dayton area chapter of the American Advertising Federation. Take a look at this video, for a behind-the-scenes peek at some of the different steps involved in creating a graphic novel.

 

It’s easy to stay informed about the various conferences Westchester will be attending throughout the year, or learn more about our editorial and typesetting services by visiting our websites (westchesterpublishingservices.com, westchesterk12publishingservices.com, and westchesterpublishingservices.co.uk). You can also subscribe to our blog, or contact us to find out how we can become your trusted partner in publishing.

 

We are extremely pleased to announce the addition of Walter Henderson Jr. to our already top-flight editorial content development team at Westchester K-12 Publishing Services. Joining Anne Riccio, Supervising Editor for ELA & Humanities, and Dave Bailis, STEM Content Director — Walter adds the extremely important element of English Language Training (ELT) to the team’s capabilities.

Walter’s background and experience in ELT is extraordinary. He holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Walter studied linguistics in both France and the United Arab Emirates. In the 2000s, working for the U.S. Department of State, Walter taught English Language Training to U.S. Embassy teachers in Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador.  Also in the 2000s, Walter was a classroom instructor/professor of the English language in Atlanta, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, and Ecuador, and also led the development of ELT course materials for many of the same organizations at which he taught.

From 2007-2010, Walter was dedicated to ELT content development and publishing for Cengage Learning. Then in 2010, he became an independent contractor in ELT content development for clients including National Geographic Learning, Cambridge University Press, Macmillan Education, and Pearson Education, just to mention a few.

Walter Henderson Jr. brings unmatched personal credentials in ELT, along with a wide network of ELT talent who are available to assist in the completion of essentially any ELT program that your product line-up requires.

Get in touch with us to find out how Walter can help you create fantastic ELT programs for English Language Learners from pre-K, K-12 and adult levels on both digital and print platforms.

CONTINUING A PARTNERSHIP OF MORE THAN A QUARTER-CENTURY

From Westchester Publishing Services’ beginnings as a typesetting company exactly fifty years ago, trade publishers have relied on the pre-press services we provide. Case in point – the U.S. division of Macmillan Publishers, for which in 1992 we began providing composition services on selected titles. The partnership between our companies has strengthened over time, with Westchester handling virtually all of the trade titles that Macmillan Publishers U.S. division releases annually over the past decade. This includes many titles that have contributed to Macmillan’s continued critical and commercial success, including the award-winning children’s titles in their Roaring Brook Press imprint, Jonathan Franzen’s novels, and James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty.

Westchester realizes that publishers have myriad options when deciding on who will provide editorial and composition services for their publications. We feel particularly privileged that Macmillan Publishers has selected Westchester to continue to provide composition services on virtually all of their titles. Read about the factors Macmillan considered, and ultimately reaffirmed in deciding that Westchester Publishing Services remains the right pre-press services provider for their publications. You can also visit our U.S. serviced Composition Typesetting webpage for more information about the composition service Macmillan has been committed to for more than ten years.

Westchester customizes our full array of editorial and composition service offerings to the specific requirements of each of our clients. Contact us to schedule an exploratory discussion of how we can help you get your titles to market more efficiently and cost effectively than your current processes.

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing and Conference Manager 

The 4th Annual Publishers Weekly Star Watch event took place in New York City on September 12, 2018. Co-hosted by Publishers Weekly and Frankfurt Buchmesse – producers of the Frankfurt Book Fair, it shines a spotlight on the contributions and innovations of people making an exceptional impact in the US or Canadian book publishing industry.

This year the nominating committee received nearly 300 individual submissions that were carefully considered and narrowed down to a field of 40 individuals receiving PW Star Watch Honoree status. We were thrilled to learn our colleague, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services Managing Director, Kevin J. Gray, was one of the finalists. The achievements and qualities Kevin displays that were integral to his selection were profiled in the September 3, 2018 edition of Publishers Weekly.

I recently had the opportunity to ask Kevin about the significance of this recognition for him, and he shared these thoughts:

“It’s incredibly exciting to be nominated as a Publishers Weekly Star Watch top honoree. This recognition from Publishers Weekly is an affirmation of the dedicated focus on excellence that the managers and staff of Westchester Publishing Services K-12 demonstrate daily. Our success would not be possible without their contributions. I’m grateful to be part of a company that understands the needs of a changing market and that empowers its leaders to grow the business in directions that anticipate and respond to the needs of publishers and educators.”

Congratulations to Kevin and the entire Westchester K-12 team on earning this achievement!