Wiseapple Productions® is an editorial services company, providing writing, editing, website maintenance and related services.

The company's founder, John Jacobson, Jr., has 30 years of experience in editorial work. His career has embraced national consumer magazine publishing, book publishing, advertising, the entertainment industry, and the World Wide Web, as well as providing a range of editorial services to clients in many other fields.

Writing

Mr. Jacobson is a published writer and columnist. Although his specialty as a writer is humor and satire, his writing work and ability cover a wide range of formats, including magazine articles, instructional text/how-to material, biographical sketches, essays, interviews and events, and many others. Published work includes magazine humor columns and event columns, consumer magazine articles, a research/advertising newsletter, contributions to books, and co-authoring and publishing a cookbook.

Editing

As an editor, Mr. Jacobson also has a wide range of experience, with a special area of expertise in copy editing and editorial production. In consumer magazine publishing, he has worked for Working Woman magazine (under its founding publisher and editor), Games magazine, and California Magazine. In book publishing he was the editor/copy editor of Janice Pennington and Carlos de Abreu's New York Times bestseller, Husband, Lover, Spy, and was the editor and copy editor of Opening the Doors to Hollywood by Carlos de Abreu and Howard Jay Smith.

Mr. Jacobson also provided editing/copy editing and page layout work on the exceptional novel, Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures) by Miles Beller. Dream of Venus is a remarkable novel from a highly talented writer, a very unique, entertaining, and thought-provoking book set in the 1939 World's Fair with an uncanny view and wild romp through the World of Tomorrow yesterday, today and tomorrow.

On those three books and others, Mr. Jacobson also did all of the text page layout work on the computer, from manuscript through to the finished page layout files to ship to the printer.

World Wide Web

Since 1995, Mr. Jacobson has, as VP of New Media of the Hollywood Network®, helped to build one of the largest independent entertainment-related sites on the World Wide Web dedicated to providing direct access to Hollywood entertainment, services, and products and to bridging the gap between Hollywood and the global creative community. His work includes webpage creation, editing/design, placement and maintenance, as well as related web administration functions of working closely with contributors, programmers, members, etc.

Mr. Jacobson also works for the annual Hollywood Film Festival®, assisting with the development, implementation and maintenance of its World Wide Web site (http://hollywoodfestival.com), writing and editing for the Festival's programs, press releases and other print material, and helping with other needs of the Festival. The 8th Annual Hollywood Film Festival® will take place in Hollywood in October 2004Please visit the website at http://hollywoodawards.com

In addition, Mr. Jacobson's website work included nine years as director of the Missing Persons CyberCenter, and he is the owner of the domain name missingpersons.com.