Jim Slusher

About

James C. Slusher is an award-winning newspaper writer, editor and novelist with more than 45 years experience throughout the Midwest and California. As Managing Editor for Opinion at the Daily Herald, the third largest daily newspaper in Illinois, he oversees the development of the editorial page and helps define the editorial voice at a thriving print and online daily newspaper serving the west and northwest suburbs of Chicago. Slusher works closely with other newsroom managers to establish and monitor policies of the news operation, and he writes a weekly column to give readers insights into the decision-making processes of the Daily Herald newsroom. He also is an accomplished writer in his own right. His first novel, Leviathan’s Scales, was published as an ebook in August 2013 and is available on Amazon.com, Smashbooks.com and other major online book retailers. He is a contributing writer to the ebook Telling the Truth and Nothing But, published in 2013 by the American Copy Editors Society. He also has produced a novella and numerous essays and short stories and is currently seeking a publisher for his second novel, Within the Bosom. His website, www.jimslusher.com, contains copies of and links to his poetry, short stories, novels and newspaper columns. He began his career as a high school English teacher in Fulton, Illinois and occasionally taught a recurring class in “Writing Autobiographical Stories” at William Rainey Harper Community College in Palatine, Illinois. His weekly column “Letter to Readers” has appeared on the Daily Herald editorial page for more than 20 years. A 1974 graduate of Western Illinois University, Slusher also taught high school for two years in the mid-’70s, served as news director of a small Iowa radio station and has worked in all newsroom capacities at newspapers in northwestern Illinois, Michigan and California. He and his wife Patty make their home in Mount Prospect, Illinois, where they raised their three sons.