Book Collaboration
Experience and Methods
I’ve worked with authors from the worlds of politics, sports, Hollywood, and more to help them tell compelling stories in their own voices. Through extensive interviews and meetings, I’ll get to know both your story and your style, and work with you to craft a narrative structure and then fill it out in your own words. I can also use my extensive reporting background to uncover additional facts that help place your story in a broader context that will help you bring it to a larger audience. In addition, I can help you craft an appropriate pitch and other marketing materials that will allow you to reach the widest group of readers.
Some of My Successful Projects
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Staying True with Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, whose affair with an Argentinean woman thrust the whole family into the national spotlight. Published February 2010 (Ballentine/Random House). |
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Not My Boy with football star and Oprah radio network host Rodney Peete, about the father’s role in raising an autistic child. Publication March 2010 (Hyperion). |
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Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover The Natural Choices , and Take Back The Birth Experience with Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, a book inspired by the popular documentary The Business of Being Born describing how women can get the kind of birth they want. April 2009 (Grand Central). |
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You’re Lucky You’re Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom with Phil Rosenthal, inside the world of sitcoms with the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond. (Viking) |
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Are You Hungry, Dear?: Life, Laughs, and Lasagna, a memoir and cookbook with Doris Roberts listed on The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists (St. Martin’s Press). |
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The Healing Power of Pets: Harnessing the Amazing Ability of Pets to Make and Keep People Happy and Healthy with Dr. Marty Becker veterinarian featured regularly on Good Morning America (Hyperion). |
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Fear Less: Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism with Gavin de Becker, about protecting yourself in the age of terrorism, published in a white heat after four intense months of work. Got to number seventeen on The New York Times bestseller list. (Little, Brown) |
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Codes of Love: How to Rethink Your Family and Remake Your Life, a book co-written with Artist’s Way author Mark Bryan, which details a step-by-step process to help families reconnect after an estrangement. Sold approximately 100,000 copies (Pocket Books, division of Simon and Shuster). |