Overview

I am an experienced trade book editor with expertise in fiction and nonfiction, including New York Times bestsellers. Over a twenty-year career I have worked with a diverse range of publishers, including HarperCollins, Plume, Macmillan, Black Dog & Leventhal, and Reader’s Digest Trade Publishing. I have successfully acquired and shepherded projects from concept to bound book, and am committed to making the editorial process professional, fun, and collaborative. I enjoy working on commercial and literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, including memoir and inspirational works, and practical reference. My goal is to walk each author through the editorial process with equal amounts of compassion and constructive criticism in order to elicit each writer’s best work.

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As a Senior Editor at Reader's Digest I acquired and edited nonfiction titles with the purpose of informing, inspiring, and simplifying. Titles included The Kindness Diaries, Singing to a Bulldog, The Ultimate Book of Vegetables, Easy Fixes for Everyday Things, 1801 Home Remedies, The Dumb Book, Funny Family Jokes, Welcome Home Mama and Boris, 13 Things Rich People Won’t Tell You, Stories in Uniform.

As an editor at HarperCollins, I acquired the New York Times bestsellers, Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol and Downsize This! by Michael Moore. Edited Adventures in a TV Nation by Michael Moore and Kathleen Glynn; How to Get Married After 35, by Helena Hacker Rosenberg; Ready, Okay! by Adam Cadre; My First Cousin Once Removed by Sarah Payne Stuart; Towns Without Rivers by Michael Parker and The House of Forgetting by Benjamin Alire Saenz.

Revisiting Trent, North Carolina -- the town so poignantly rendered in his acclaimed novel, Hello Down There -- Michael Parker picks up the story of Reka Speight, a woman determined to discover a wider world than the rural backwater of her youth.Recently released from prison for a crime she did not commit, Reka returns home with one goal: to escape Trent for someplace unencumbered by history. ... read more

Based on an American television show, of the same name, it brims with Michael Moore's special brand of subversive humour that melds outright silliness with poignant realisation. From the oh–so–obvious Serial Killer Next Door who's ignored by his neighbours: to Mike enjoying some quality time with Dr. Kevorkian : to raising money for Charles Keating, this is a compilation of classic TV Nation t... read more

Did you read about the janitor who donated $1 million dollars to his local library? Do you ever watch in amazement as your well-off boss haggles over the price of a tuna fish sandwich? Is it possible to find an advisor to help you invest your money—without losing it all to a Bernie Madoff-like con man? In the same spirit of Reader’s Digest magazine’s popular 13 Things They Won’t Tell You serie... read more

Growing up in 1950s California, young Anson William Heimlich showed very little promise. Clumsy, unsure of himself, and made to feel like a failure by his disappointed artist of a dad, Anson started working odd jobs as a teenager to help support his family. His boss at one of these jobs, an aging African-American janitor named Willie, unexpectedly became a mentor—and the lessons he taught youn... read more

The art of being truly funny is an undervalued one in these angst-ridden times, but it is an ability that acclaimed novelist Sarah Payne Stuart has in abundance. Her talents have never been on more glorious display than in My First Cousin Once Removed, a memoir--at once hilarious, personal and sad--of her extraordinary Boston Brahmin family, whose most famous member is the legendary poet Rober... read more

On June 6, 1944, Ugo Giannini landed on Omaha Beach at H+70 minutes as one of a platoon of military police assigned to the 29th Division. Ugo's team was to control the incoming traffic. There were thirty-seven men in his platoon; they were decimated in the first ten minutes. Six men got to the beach. Someone told Ugo that he was needed on the bluff above. He climbed the Vierville Draw, jumped ... read more

From the author of the highly acclaimed literary novel Carry Me Like Water comes a stunning, dramatic psychological thriller that delivers on every level and reaffirms Luis Arrea's claim that Benjamin Senz is "writer with greatness in him." In The House of Forgetting, seven-year-old Gloria Santos is taken by Thomas Blacker from the barrio of El Paso, Texas, to Chicago. There, in the home of th... read more

An Incredibly Moving Tale Of One Sister’s Tribute To Her Fallen Brother –And The Everyday Heroes Who Are Still Rescuing The Amazing Animals Who Sustain Our Soldiers’ Spirits.Growing up in the well-heeled Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Carey Neesley always thought she and her younger brother, Peter, would never be separated. The children of divorced parents and outcasts in their nei... read more

Every schoolchild knows that "in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue"--but what they don't teach you in history class is that he wasn't the only one. In The Race to the New World, Douglas Hunter tells for the first time the fascinating tale of how Christopher Columbus was embroiled in a high-stakes race with Venetian John Cabot to find a shortcut to the East--and how they found a New World tha... read more