Sherry Gershon Gottlieb

Background

Sherry Gershon Gottlieb was born on April 6, 1948, in Los Angeles, California, United States, to Harry L. Gershon and Evelyn Jellen Gershon.

Education

In 1969, Gottlieb received a Bachelor in Dramatic Arts from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

As Career Boost Résumés, Sherry has written nearly 4000 professional résumés in all fields and for most positions, from entry-level to C-level executives. Career Boost Résumés serves clients in person in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, California, and internationally through this website.

A private editor/book doctor, Sherry specializes in fiction, primarily novels. Her clients have sold their edited manuscripts to Knopf, St. Martin's Press, Harper-Collins, Berkley-Putnam, Greenleaf Book Group Press, and Jossey-Bass. She contributed the chapter entitled "The Book Doctor is In: The Seven Most Common First Novel Problems and How to Avoid Them" in The Portable Writers' Conference.

For nearly two decades, Sherry owned A Change of Hobbit Bookstore in Santa Monica, California, the world's oldest and largest speculative-fiction bookstore.

Achievements

• Sherry Gershon Gottlieb has been listed as a notable author who wrote four published books, including two novels, an oral history, and a collection of short-short stories.

Works

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  • Hell No, We Won't Go

    (Explains the draft system of the Vietnam War era and util...)

    1991
  • Love Bite

    (Trailing a vampire who kills men while sending them into ...)

    1994
  • Pup Fiction

    (Adventures from the case files of Private Eye Sam Spayed,...)

    2011
  • Worse Than Death

    (In a lusty, humorous novel about life and love among the ...)

    2001
  • The Portable Writer's Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published 1997

Membership

Sherry Gershon Gottlieb was a member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association United States of America.

Interests

• Reading, cooking, Scrabble, trivial pursuit, travel.

Connections

On August 12, 1971, Sherry married David Neil Gottlieb, but they divorced in 1973.

Father:

Harry L. Gottlieb

Mother:

Evelyn Jellen Gershon

Spouse:

David Neil Gottlieb