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Susan
Dalsimer enjoys the process of helping a
writer fashion the book most meaningful
to the writer and most marketable to the
public. She can be an editor, a
collaborator or a ghostwriter. She has
been an editor at E.P.
Dutton, a vice-president of Creative
Affairs for Warner Bros. in New York,
and the vice-president and publisher of
Miramax Books.
In
addition to her editing skills, she has
a keen eye for what books can translate
to film and television.
She
edits fiction and non-fiction. In
fiction she edits literary and
commercial fiction as well as young
adult fiction. In non-fiction she is
particularly interested in the areas of
memoir, spirituality, psychology,
self-help, biography, theater, film and
television.
Authors
she has worked with include Paul Auster,
Fredric Dannen, Florence Falk, Thomas Farber, Annette
Insdorf, Iris Krasnow, Padma Lakshmi,
David Levien, Anthony Minghella, John
Pierson, Martin Scorsese, and Veronica
Webb.
"Susan Dalsimer was my editor on three
books, written over the course of seven
years. With each paragraph she edited,
she challenged me to think sharper, to
write more fully from the heart. I
leaned on Susan to make me my best, and
she came through time and time again."
--Iris Krasnow
Surrendering to Motherhood,
Surrendering to Marriage,
Surrendering to Yourself
"Not only
was Susan Dalsimer the ideal editor for
Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes,
she set me on the right course at the
outset, then left me on my own except
when she, almost uncannily, asked the
right question at the right time.
Finally, at the end, no detail was too
small to discuss, and she never wavered
in support of the in-your-face title."
--John Pierson
Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: A
Guided Tour Across A Decade of American
Independent Cinema
"Susan
Dalsimer has the rare ability to read a
novel in progress and sort out what it
needs at its most fundamental level
the honesty of the story, the truth of
the characters. But she also has an even
rarer talent the ability to offer
specific, concrete, and workable ideas
for how to fix the problem. I am
grateful for her talents."
--Kate Wenner
Setting Fires, Dancing With Einstein
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