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Meet the Editors Arnold Dolin · Sandi Gelles-Cole David Groff · Hilary Hinzmann · Judith Kern Carole Lalli · Danelle McCafferty · Nancy Nicholas Joan B. Sanger · Nan Gatewood Satter · Karl Weber
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Arnold Dolin
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Sandi Gelles-Cole
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Phone: 212-645-8910 Email: dgroff@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Fiction, biography/memoir, science, current affairs.
David Groff is a poet, writer, and independent editor focusing on narrative. For the last eleven years, he has worked with literary and popular novelists, memorists, journalists, and scientists whose books have been published by Atria, Bantam, HarperCollins, Hyperion, Little Brown, Miramax, Putnam, St. Martin’s, Wiley, and other publishers. For twelve years he was an editor at Crown, publishing books by humorist Dave Barry, novelists Colin Harrison and Paul Monette, and journalists Patrice Gaines, Michael D’Antonio, and Frank Browning. He co-authored The Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood by Robin Hardy, and An American Family, with Jon and Michael Galluccio. David’s book Theory of Devolution was published in 2002 as part of the National Poetry Series. For more about David Groff, click here.
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Hilary Hinzmann His recent editing/book doctoring projects include The End of My Addiction, by Olivier Ameisen, M.D. (forthcoming from Sarah Crichton Books/FSG), FL!P: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head – and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings, by Peter Sheahan (William Morrow, HarperCollins UK, and Random House Australia), Let the Dog Decide, by Dale Stavroff (Avalon and HarperCollins Canada), The Marketing Mavens, by Noel Capon (Crown Business), I Had the Right to Remain Silent . . . But I Didn’t Have the Ability, by Ron White (Dutton, a New York Times and Publishers Weekly hardcover bestseller), and The Secret Life of Germs, by Philip M. Tierno, Jr., Ph.D. (Pocket). With lead author Vijay Vad, M.D., he co-authored Back Rx: A 15-Minute-a-Day Yoga- & Pilates-Based Program to End Low Back Pain (Gotham). For more about Hilary Hinzmann, click here.
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Phone: (212) 249-5871 Fax: (212) 249-4954 Email: kernjt@aol.com Specialties: Self-help, spirituality, lifestyle, food, health and diet Other: Mysteries, women’s fiction
Judith Kern was an in-house editor for more than twenty-five years, most recently a senior editor at Doubleday, before becoming an independent editor and writer. She has worked with well-known fiction writers including Charlotte Vale Allen, Jon Hassler, Bette Pesetsky, and Patricia Volk, and Edgar award-winning mystery writers Mary Willis Walker and John Morgan Wilson. Her bestselling and award-winning cookbook authors include Alfred Portale, Pino Luongo, Michael Lomonaco, and Madeleine Kamman. She has collaborated with Jennifer Workman on Stop Your Cravings (The Free Press); with Joe Caruso on The Power of Losing Control (Gotham); and with Dr. Jane Greer on The Afterlife Connection (St. Martin’s Press). She also worked with Alan Morinis on Climbing Jacob's Ladder (Broadway); Dr. Arlene Churn on The End Is Just the Beginning (Doubleday/Harlem Moon); and Ivan Richmond on Growing Up Zen in America (Atria). She is a member of the Author’s Guild, The James Beard Society, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
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Carole
Lalli Phone/Fax: Email: clalli@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Food and wine; general non-fiction. Carole Lalli has worked as a magazine and book editor and writer, specializing in food and wine, for thirty years. Her articles have appeared in Esquire, GQ, Food & Wine, Departures, and other magazines. As an editor at House & Garden, she had full responsibility for the magazine's monthly coverage of food and wine. For nearly ten years at Simon & Schuster, Lalli was a senior editor specializing in food, wine, and other non-fiction topics. Her authors included Marian Burros and Giuliano Bugialli, and she launched Robert Parker, Jr., the powerful wine critic. She held a similar position at Rizzoli International Publishing, where she was deeply involved in the design and often lavish photography of the books she published. Lalli is a past Editor in Chief of Food & Wine magazine and the author of three cookbooks: Chicken Salads, Stuffings, and Yesterday's Bread. As an independent project editor, she produced Sophia Loren's Memories and Recipes (Good Times), The Art of the Chicken (Stewart Tabori & Chang), and The International Meat Book (Harper Collins).
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Danelle McCafferty Phone: 212-877-9416 Fax: 212-877-9486 Email: dmccafferty@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Thrillers, mysteries, women’s contemporary and historical fiction, romances and inspirational novels. Other: Self-help, religion/spirituality, theater and true crime. A former senior editor at Bantam Books, Danelle McCafferty started her own editorial services business in 1990. She works on all stages of a manuscript, from outline and plot development to line editing and/or rewriting. Over the past twenty-five years, she has edited bestselling novels by Tom Robbins, Dana Fuller Ross, Peter Clement, Frank Perretti, Nora Roberts, Patricia Matthews and Janelle Taylor, among others. Nonfiction authors include Bill Ury (negotiating), Ed Jablonski (theater), and Eileen MacNamara (true crime). As editorial director for a packager, she oversaw six highly successful mystery series. The author of two nonfiction books and numerous articles, she is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Editorial Freelancers Association.
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Phone/Fax: Email: nnicholas@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Fiction, including first novels, historical fiction, and mysteries; biographies and autobiographies, history, theatre, hobbies, and gay issues.
Nancy Nicholas has worked at three book publishers and three magazines in a variety of roles. In eighteen years at Knopf, she worked on literary and popular fiction, serious nonfiction, and translations. At Simon & Schuster, she edited fiction and nonfiction by a number of celebrities, including Joan Collins, Marlene Dietrich's daughter Maria Riva, Jerry Falwell, Jesse Jackson, Shirley Conran, and Shelley Winters. At Doubleday, she worked on the revised Amy Vanderbilt etiquette book. She was also a senior editor at Vogue, Mirabella, and Connoisseur magazines. Since becoming a freelancer, Nicholas has handled projects for many publishers, from editing Nick Malgieri's baking books and Michael Lee West's "Crazy Lady" Southern fiction to riding herd on the project that became Bill Gates's The Road Ahead and writing Cooking for Madam with Marta Sgubin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's cook.
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Joan B. Sanger Phone/Fax: 212-501-9352 Email: jsanger@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Mainstream commercial fiction, primarily legal and medical thrillers, mysteries, contemporary women’s fiction. Other: Structuring nonfiction proposals, biography and autobiography. Joan Sanger has been an independent editorial consultant for over ten years, primarily developing and editing commercial fiction. Her referrals come from agents, publishers and private clients. Her authors, who are published by Berkeley, Warner Books, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster, include Gary Birken, M.D., an author of medical thrillers who is working on his fourth novel, James Grippando, and Bonnie Comfort. Prior to setting up her consultancy she was a senior editor for fifteen years at Simon & Schuster, founder, vice-president and editor-in-chief of the hardcover division of New American Library, and vice-president and senior editor at G.P. Putnam. Among her bestselling authors are Irving Wallace, Kitty Kelley, Anne Tolstoi Wallach, Henry Fonda, and Arthur Ashe. She has been a member of the Women’s Media Group for twenty years.
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Nan Gatewood Satter
Phone: 845-256-0504
Specialties: Literary and commercial fiction, first novels,
women's issues, personal growth, memoir, the arts
Nan
Gatewood Satter’s early career was spent at Doubleday, where she
edited books across a wide spectrum of general interest
nonfiction, from historian Bruce Catton’s Reflections on the
Civil War to noted astrologer Jeanne Avery’s bestselling
classic The Rising Sign. She has been an independent
editor for eighteen years, providing writers with in-depth
manuscript critiques, support in developing fiction and
nonfiction, and line editing. Her authors have been published by
Algonquin Books, Soho Press, Simon & Schuster, Doubleday, Health
Communications, Inc., and SMU Press, among others, and include
journalists Dan Hurley and David Rieff, novelist Edra Ziesk,
empowerment pioneer Gail Straub, and memoirist and novelist Susan
Richards. A significant focus of her work in recent years has
been the development of emerging writers, and to this end she
leads a series of popular writing workshops near her home in the
Hudson Valley.
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Karl Weber
Karl Weber is a writer and editor specializing in nonfiction, with a focus on business and current affairs. In fifteen years as an editor and publisher with McGraw-Hill, the American Management Association, John Wiley & Sons and Times Business/Random House, Weber edited many bestsellers in fields such as management, investing, careers, business narratives and memoirs. He helped to create Wiley’s acclaimed Portable MBA book series, and, when Worth magazine in 1997 selected the fifteen best investment books of the past 150 years, two were titles edited by Weber. He also edited three bestselling books by former President Jimmy Carter, Living Faith, Sources of Strength, and An Hour Before Daylight. He has co-authored several acclaimed books on management and strategy by noted consultant Adrian Slywotzky (most recently How To Grow When Markets Don't) and also co-authored the best-selling business book The Power of We with Jonathan Tisch. In January, 2008, Weber co-authored Creating a World Without Poverty with Muhammad Yunus, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
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