David Standish has been the editorial adviser for 12 magazine publishing project prototypes. He teaches magazine writing and works as a freelance writer, primarily for magazines. He was an editor at Playboy for 10 years, and has written many articles for that magazine. He has also written for Esquire, Travel & Leisure, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Audubon, Landscape Architecture, House Beautiful, Reader's Digest, and many others. He is the author of The Art of Money and Hollow Earth. Standish has a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Miami University. He completed course work on a Ph.D. in American Studies at Indiana University, but took a long detour into journalism and never finished his dissertation.