Lorraine Martindale M - Editor
Previously worked with Sourcebooks, Penguin Putnam, Random House, Guideposts Books, and DK Publishing.
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I have more than fifteen years of experience as a writer and editor for publishers, magazines, and non-profits. My skills range from ghostwriting to developmental and line editing to copy editing. I can make your writing better, or work with you as a coach, helping you through the process.
My interests include art, literary fiction, memoir, self-help, religion, commercial fiction, education, cooking, and comics. I have edited many mysteries and YA titles. I love working on cookbooks and food-related topics.
I also love working with non-profits, universities, and art galleries.
I offer coaching to writers who are starting out and need guidance with a project, or general assistance with writing.
My most successful project was for Guideposts Books, called Tales from Grace Chapel Inn, a fiction series about three sisters who open a bed and breakfast in their childhood home. During the process of relocating and coming back together as family, the discover memories from their past as well as rich relationships in their hometown. The series ran for many years and sold more than a million copies in the direct mail market. I worked with a team of writers to create this series, helping them find the stories for these beloved sisters.
My interests include art, literary fiction, memoir, self-help, religion, commercial fiction, education, cooking, and comics. I have edited many mysteries and YA titles. I love working on cookbooks and food-related topics.
I also love working with non-profits, universities, and art galleries.
I offer coaching to writers who are starting out and need guidance with a project, or general assistance with writing.
My most successful project was for Guideposts Books, called Tales from Grace Chapel Inn, a fiction series about three sisters who open a bed and breakfast in their childhood home. During the process of relocating and coming back together as family, the discover memories from their past as well as rich relationships in their hometown. The series ran for many years and sold more than a million copies in the direct mail market. I worked with a team of writers to create this series, helping them find the stories for these beloved sisters.
Languages
English (AUS)
Non-Fiction
Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits
Humanities & Social Sciences
Inspirational
Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Women's Fiction
Certifications
- Publishing Certificate from NYU
- MFA in Writing, The New School, NYC
Work experience
Editor and Writer
Self-employed
January, 2004
–
Present
(about 19 years)
Have worked with publishers including DK Publishing, DC Comics, New York Review Books, Felony and Mayhem, Shambhala Publishers, Sourcebooks, Penguin Putnam, Random House, and Guideposts Books.
Guideposts Books: created and edited a fiction series called Tales from Grace Chapel Inn that sold more than a million copies in the direct mail market.
Poetry Center 92nd Street Y: wrote and edited program copy for the Y's literary series brochure and catalog.
Tibet House: writer on art, travel, and Tibetan artifacts for yearly auction catalog at Christie's.
The Princeton Review and The Learning Source: wrote educational materials for elementary and middle-school levels.
Kirkus Discoveries: book reviewer.
New Line Cinema: script evaluator.
KIWI Magazine: writer of articles on healthy parenting.: writer and editor of website articles and weekly ezine.
Portfolio (19 selected works)
An Artful Corpse (Art of Murder Mysteries, 3)
Harrison, Helen A.
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)
Hardwick, Elizabeth, Pinckney, Darryl
In a Lonely Place (New York Review Books)
Dorothy B. Hughes
A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with lonenes... read more
Havoc (New York Review Books Classics)
Tom Kristensen
A longtime cult-classic in Denmark, this novel about dissolution and despair has been out of print in the US for over eighty years until now.Ole Jastrau is the very model of an enterprising and ambitious young man of letters, poised on the brink of what is sure to be a distinguished career as a critic. In fact he is teetering on the brink of an emotional and moral abyss. Bored with his beautif... read more
Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays
Badkhen, Anna
Steve the Bartender's Cocktail Guide: Tools - Techniques - Recipes
Roennfeldt, Steven
Substituting Ingredients: The A to Z Kitchen Reference
Becky Sue Epstein
Everyone has been in this predicament: you're at home, with no time (or desire) for a trip to the store-but the recipe you're using calls for an ingredient you don't happen to have on hand. With this book, you'll have a solution: substitute. In Substituting Ingredients, author Becky Sue Epstein has collected more than 1,000 easy-to-find, healthy, and cheap substitutions. You'll find: Substitut... read more
What You Hide
Natalie D. Richards
An Amazon Best Book of the Month!Mallory didn't want to leave home, but it wasn't safe to stay. So she sleeps at her best friend's house and spends the rest of her time at the library, doing her online schoolwork and figuring out what comes next. Because she's not going live in fear like her mother.Spencer volunteers at the library. Sure, it's community service for a stunt he pulled, but he li... read more
Unleash your creativity! Explore creative writing in new ways that will have you cutting, folding, tearing, and ripping the pages!This is the activity book for out-of-bounds creative writing fun. Full of 52 zany,silly, and thoughtful prompts—perfect for elementary-aged kids—this book will take your writing to new places, literally! Write a haiku and fold it up into a paper crane, write fortune... read more
The Moving Toyshop (The Gervase Fen Mysteries)
Edmund Crispin
When a poet, Richard Cadogan, receives an unexpected £50 advance from his publisher for his new poetry book, he decides to go to Oxford for a well deserved holiday. The change of scenery and peace of mind is what he needs to recover his inspiration for writing. Little does he know that what he envisioned as a leisurely time spent on long walks and visiting friends will turn into a mystery solv... read more
When literary agent Elsie Thirkettle is invited to accompany tall but obscure crime-writer Ethelred Tressider to dinner at Muntham Court, she is looking forward to sneering at his posh friends. What she is not expecting is that, half way through the evening, her host will be found strangled in his locked study. Since there is no way that a murderer could have escaped, the police conclude that ... read more
Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man (New York Review Books Classics)
Amery, Jean, West, Adrian Nathan
It Cannoli Be Murder (Italian Chef Mysteries)
Bruns, Catherine
Dash Diet Meal Prep for Beginners: Make-Ahead Recipes to Lower Your Blood Pressure & Lose Weight
White MS RD AT, Dana Angelo
How to Train Your Dog: A Relationship-Based Approach for a Well-Behaved Dog
Palika, Liz, Abbott, Kate
Back Home Again
Melody Carlson
After the death of their father the three Howard sisters each inherit a share in his Victorian home and decide to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, but first they have to overcome their conflicts from the past and learn to accept help from their friends.
Hidden History (Tales from Grace Chapel Inn, Book 3)
Melody Carlson
Two sisters who have turned their childhood home into a bed and breakfast inn stumble upon their father's boyhood journal and discover his hidden history, learning how faith changed the course of his life.
Lorraine Martindale has 4 reviews
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Communication & Punctuality
This is my second collaboration with Lorraine. Once again, she's knocked it out of the park. Having her developmental edit is the quality you'd get with Simon and Shuster or one of the other big four. I couldn't ask for more. Her prices are quite reasonable for what you are provided. She will make you the author you want to be. JWR.
John Rosskopf, November 2022
I had both higher and lower bids for my developmental, copy and line edits. Lorraine's bids came in just right. She was a great help with my book, and I will use her again, as my mystery series progresses to the next volumes. She's patient and quite skilled at her profession. If you have a book you're working on that needs a professional edit (and I'd highly recommend it), you couldn't do bette...
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John Rosskopf, July 2022
Lorraine was everything I could have wanted in a developmental editor. She read my 90K word manuscript with an experienced eye, and her work product made my novel far more professional than I could have done on my own. Her recommendations were spot on. Her knowledge of character and narrative should be available in a book of her own. She was worth every penny I paid. Some estimates by others we...
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John Rosskopf, March 2022
I thank Miss Lorraine M. for her editorial labor over the manuscript of my book.
Her suggestions and encouragement polished the story into one that can be read with more pleasure for which I am grateful.
Nirmal Soochitsingh, July 2021
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