"Only 10 business editors in the country can do what Mickey Butts does with the written word."
Suzy Welch, coauthor, with Jack Welch, of the international bestseller Winning, and former editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review


Welcome to my Web site. I'm a Berkeley, California-based writer and editor. My writing and reporting has appeared in such publications as Salon, The Nation, Food & Wine, The Industry Standard, Wired, The Financial Times, The Economist, Portfolio.com, Business 2.0, Parenting, Sunset, San Francisco Magazine, Via, and The San Francisco Chronicle. To see samples of my journalism work, see the writing & journalism area of this site.

I've also been an editor at The Industry Standard, Parenting, San Francisco Weekly, The East Bay Monthly, and San Francisco Classical Voice. To read more about my background and view my resume, see my bio. And see the editing section for examples of magazine articles I've produced. To check out my online work, including the short-lived online wine newsletter Route du Vin and long-lost sites I built in the early days of the Web, go to the online work area of my site.

These days I do a lot of work for companies, nonprofits, and individuals that want to develop books, articles, case studies, white papers, courseware, and business/strategic plans with wide appeal. I've ghostwritten articles that have appeared in Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, The Financial Times, Strategy+Business, Economist Intelligence Unit, Institutional Investor Guides, Forbes.com, and the San Francisco Chronicle. I've ghostwritten and edited books published by Random House, Harvard Business Press, and Jossey-Bass. A recent book I developmentally edited, Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, was named one of the The Economist's Best Business Books of 2007. To read more about my corporate and nonprofit work, see the ghostwriting & corporate writing and clients & testimonials areas of the site. And to see the books I've edited, go to the editing section. Finally, check out my latest "Reading List" letter to clients.

Please contact me if you'd like to know more. Thanks for visiting.


>>>WHAT'S NEW FROM MICKEY<<<

Editing

The Jack Welch MBA

The Corporate Lattice, Cathy Benko and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Press, August 2010)

Liespotting, Pamela Meyer (St. Martin's Press, July 2010)

The Networked Nonprofit, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine (Jossey-Bass, June 2010)

The American Way to Change, Shirley Sagawa (Jossey-Bass, May 2010)

"Maximizing Impact: An Integrated Strategy for Grantmaking and Mission Investing in Climate Change," Mark Kramer, Adeeb Mahmud, and Serah Makka (FSG Social Impact Advisors, May 2010)

Ghostwriting

"The Power of Passionate Creatives," John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison, Change This, May 5, 2010

"Five Ways to Harness the Power of Pull," John Hagel, Open Forum, June 21, 2010

"Success or Failure - How's Your Power of Pull?" John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison, CNBC, May 3, 2010