Howling Wolf Consulting Services

Howling Wolf Consulting Services  specializes in acquisitions and
developmental editing, technical editing, and writing for computer book,
periodical, and online publishers, as well as in development using
Microsoft technologies. It is solely owned and operated by Ron Petrusha.

Ron has 30 years of experience in the computer industry, having first
learned to program in FORTRAN on the IBM 360 series. More recently,
he was an acquisitions and development editor for Bantam Electronic
Publishing, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, and
for O'Reilly & Associates. The titles he acquired and developed for both
publishers tended to be high-end books that focused on the needs of
advanced users and developers. While at Bantam, he acquired and edited
Windows 3.0 Power Tools, which sold over 100,000 copies, as well as
Straley's Programming in Clipper. For O'Reilly, the titles he acquired
and edited included ASP in a Nutshell, VB/VBA in a Nutshell: The
Language, Learning VBScript, VBScript in a Nutshell, Visual Basic
Shell Programming, and Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic.
While at O'Reilly, he also authored or co-authored a number of books
and articles.