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Meet the Editors Hillel Black · Arnold Dolin · Sandi Gelles-Cole David Groff · Hilary Hinzmann · Carla Jablonski Jennifer Josephy · Judith Kern · Carole Lalli Danelle McCafferty · Nancy Nicholas · Toni Sciarra Poynter Joan B. Sanger · Nan Gatewood Satter · Karl Weber
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Hillel Black Phone: 212-734-8407 Email: hblack@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Hillel Black offers his services as a developmental editor, line editor, and book doctor in many book categories, including literary and commercial fiction, biography and memoir, business, history, politics, science, and sports. Hillel Black is a meticulous, hands-on developmental editor of over twenty bestsellers of fiction and nonfiction. Regarding nonfiction, he provides specific editorial suggestions to help the author's true voice come through, to make the work more evocative or dramatic, and to reorder chapters and portions of chapters, as well as line editing to increase clarity of expression. For works of fiction, he provides insight and suggestions for plotting, character development, structure and execution. Black was the editor and publisher of Sidney Sheldon's Other Side of Midnight, George Plimpton's Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Frank Deford's The Entitled, and Richard Hooker's MASH, as well as every variety of nonfiction from Margaret's Truman's Harry Truman and Dan Rather's The Camera Never Blinks to Gail Sheehy's Pathfinders, J. Randy Taraborrelli's Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, and Ted Fiske's Guide to Colleges. He served as editor-in-chief of William Morrow, publisher of Macmillan, and executive editor of Sourcebooks. He is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including an Edgar award nominee, and has a wide acquaintance in the agent community.
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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 Formerly an editor at W. W. Norton & Company, Hilary Hinzmann has edited New York Times Book Review “Notable Books of the Year” in both fiction and nonfiction. He coaches writers on the development of their work, edits manuscripts for publishers, and serves as collaborator, ghostwriter, or editor/book doctor on varied nonfiction projects. Authors he has worked with include Noah Adams of National Public Radio, Marcia Angell, M.D., New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini, Wynton Marsalis, Laurence Tribe, “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” headliner Ron White, Baseball Hall of Famers Joe Morgan and Dave Winfield, and the novelists Christine Bell, April Bernard, R. M. Koster, Michael McGarrity, Tim McLaurin, and Wang Anyi. His recent projects include The End of My Addiction, by Olivier Ameisen, M.D., with Hilary Hinzmann (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), named favorite health book of 2005 by the Wall Street Journal’s “Health Column.” For more about Hilary Hinzmann, click here.
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Carla Jablonski Email: cjablonski@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Middle-grade and YA; adult fantasy and science fiction; historical fiction. Carla Jablonski is an author, editor, book doctor, and ghostwriter specializing in books for the middle-grade and young adult markets. She has worked for packagers (such as Alloy and Parachute Publishing) and publishers (Penguin, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, and others) as well as for individual author clients. She has edited dozens of best-selling mass-market series, including R.L. Stine’s Ghosts of Fear Street and Give Yourself Goosebumps, Choose Your Own Adventure, The Hardy Boys, and the various Mary Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen series, as well as trade and literary individual titles. Jablonski is also a widely-published author, including the Books of Magic (HarperCollins) series, based on Neil Gaiman’s popular comic books. Her two most recent books, Thicker than Water and Silent Echoes (Razorbill/Penguin) were both included on the NYPL “Books for the Teen Age” lists, a selection of the best books of the year chosen by New York librarians and committees of teen readers.
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Jennifer Josephy Phone: 212-744-0874 Email: jjosephy@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Diet and health; biography; memoirs; history; lifestyle; cookbooks; food-related and travel narratives; the art world; women’s issues; dogs. Jennifer Josephy has worked at a number of major publishers. While at Holt, she edited Fear of Flying by Erica Jong; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem; and Stress, Diet, and Your Heart by Dean Ornish, M.D. At Little, Brown, she published two #1 New York Times bestsellers: Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem and Making Faces by makeup superstar Kevin Aucoin. She also published The Baby Book by William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears; Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett; Strangers from a Different Shore by historian Ronald Takaki; Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon Novick (a front-page New York Times Book Review notable book); and cookbooks by PBS star Christopher Kimball. At Doubleday Broadway, she oversaw the cookbook program and published chefs and food writers, among them New York Times columnist and TV personality Mark Bittman (The Best Recipes in the World); PBS and Food Network star Sara Moulton; superstar chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten; and Deborah Madison. She also published Susan Herrmann Loomis’s On Rue Tatin, among other food/travel memoirs; and blogger Clotilde Dusoulier’s Chocolate and Zucchini, as well as four books by style setter Carolyne Roehm, and several health-related titles, such as Cleveland Clinic Healthy Heart Lifestyle Guide and Cookbook.
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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. As a senior editor for nearly ten years at Simon & Schuster, Lalli developed a list of food, wine, and other non-fiction topics. Her cookbook authors included Marian Burros, Giuliano Bugialli, and the Moosewood Collective, and she launched Robert Parker, Jr., the powerful wine critic. Lalli 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. Besides cookery, she published lifestyle books, among them A Cut Above, by Arnold Scaasi.
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). Current projects include Sylvia’s Table by Liz Neumark, a renowned New York caterer, for which Lalli is the writer, and Winterblue, a children’s book that she is editing.
Lalli has written for Esquire, GQ, Food & Wine, Departures, and More, among other magazines. At House & Garden, she had full responsibility for the magazine's monthly coverage of food and wine.
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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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Toni Sciarra Poynter Email: tpoynter@consulting-editors.com Specialties: Nonfiction in wellness/health/medicine, psychology, science, lifestyle, important social and cultural trends, women's issues, family issues, career and workplace issues, personal improvement, and narrative nonfiction. Toni Sciarra Poynter is a nonfiction book editor with more than 25 years’ experience and also a published author. She has held senior editorial positions at major New York publishing houses: HarperCollins Publishers, William Morrow, Simon and Schuster, and Macmillan. She has worked with bestselling authors, prominent professionals, and respected entities, including the Mayo Clinic, the Emily Post Institute (including the national bestseller Essential Manners for Men and the classic Emily Post’s Etiquette, 17th Edition), bestselling trainer Jack Canfield, lifestyle author Alexandra Stoddard, biographer/historian Tilar Mazzeo's New York Times bestseller The Widow Clicquot, nonverbal communication expert and retired FBI agent Joe Navarro (What Every BODY Is Saying,) Families and Work Institute President Ellen Galinsky, Salk Institute neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., bestselling women's health expert Judith Reichman, M.D., New York Times science writers Gina Kolata and Sandra Blakeslee, New York University Medical School Women's Health Service, The American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Petfinder.com, Good Housekeeping, and Children's Television Workshop.
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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.
Weber 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 2008, Weber co-authored Creating a World Without Poverty with Muhammad Yunus, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, which appeared on the New York Times extended bestseller list. In the same year, he edited Scott McClellan's political memoir What Happened, which was a number one New York Times bestseller.
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