Anne Egan

Anne Egan – Editor

Seasoned cookbook/recipe editor and developmental editor with 20+ years experience including 2 NYT bestsellers. Flexible, easy to work with.

Overview

Let me help your recipes shine while presenting consistent, accurate ones every time! Experience with healthy cookbooks, comfort cookbooks, regional cookbooks, chef-written books, and more.

I have developed and edited recipe for Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, Woman's World, Prevention, Fitness, Redbook, Parent’s, Working Woman, and First for Woman magazines and numerous cookbooks including two New York Times Bestsellers. This broad experience lets me keep your voice in the recipes while ensuring that any reader from beginner to expert can prepare and enjoy the recipes with ease.

Past projects include editing two gluten-free cookbooks for a blogger, New Orleans chef cookbook, chef blogger French cookbook, dehydrator cookbook, healthful cooking to relieve diabetes, heart disease and other conditions, recipe testing and editing of Fixate 2 Cookbook for Beach Body, as well as numerous books for Reader's Digest including Diabetes Quick Fix, Foods that Harm, Food that Heal, and Food Cures.

Author of 8 cookbooks and editor of two NYT bestsellers -The Wheat Belly Cookbook and The Wheat Belly 30 Minutes or Less! Cookbook.
Services
Non-Fiction
Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits Home & Garden
Languages
English (US)
Awards
  • Editor of two NYT bestselling cookbooks

Work experience

Self-employed

May, 2017 — Present

• Edit cookbooks for publishers and self-publishers.
• Edit non-fiction books including cooking, self-help, home improvement, and health books.
• Manage content development for corporation-sponsored books orchestrating contract writers, editors,
designers, layout, and production.
• Create and edit content for consistency and accuracy to meet specific publisher strategy and guidelines.
• Compile new books from re-purposed content by utilizing each publisher’s CMS.

Rodale, Inc

Jun, 2010 — May, 2017 (almost 7 years)

• Edited numerous cookbooks including two New York Times bestsellers.
• Managed recipe testing of more than 10 cookbooks per year.
• Created content to promote cookbooks through direct to consumer marketing and digital sites.

Portfolio

A taste of New Orleans―right in your own kitchenJust like a big bowl of gumbo, New Orleans is a melting pot of cultures and flavors. Its vibrant cuisine is as unique as the city itself, evidenced by the delightful scent of Creole and Cajun cooking wafting thro... read more
No gluten? No dairy? No problem. Baking is delicious again.Sensitivities to dairy and gluten can’t hold you back from homemade baked goods anymore. This dairy-free and gluten free cookbook is your door to a sweeter world, with 75 recipes that contain no gluten... read more
Heal What Ails You with Delicious Superfoods! Discover the incredible healing power of everyday food—treat the most common conditions naturally, safely, and deliciously—and live pain free, allergy free, disease free, and worry free.Clean out your medicine cabi... read more
This cookbook companion to the New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly serves up 150 great tasting wheat-free recipes to help readers lose weight and beat disease.Wheat Belly shook the foundations of the diet world when author and renowned cardiologist William D... read more

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