Linda Carbone lindacarbone@optonline.net   (914) 374-8790 Specialties Health, psychology, self-help, parenting, business, memoir, biography, gender studies, social issues, nonfiction proposals. ProfileLinda Carbone has been editing books for twenty-five years. As the developmental editor for Basic Books, she gave every manuscript the careful reworking needed to shape it into a publishable book. As an independent editor, she has also worked for HarperCollins, Workman, Addison-Wesley, Oxford University Press, and the Feminist Press, as well as directly with authors on their manuscripts and book proposals.

Her authors and titles include Stephen L. Carter, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby and Integrity; Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Judaism for Everyone; psychologist Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child (rev. ed.) and The Truth Will Set You Free; college student Daphne Oz, The Dorm Room Diet; poet Victoria Hallerman, How We Survived Prostate Cancer; best-selling business guru Seth Godin, The Bootstrapper’s Bible and Survival Is Not Enough; and Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon, Models of My Life.

She is the coauthor (with her husband, Ed Decker) of A Little Pregnant: Our Memoir of Fertility, Infertility, and a Marriage, published by Grove/Atlantic and a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award.

Linda is a versatile editor whose authors appreciate her creative problem solving and nurturing guidance. She can provide substantive editing, line editing, manuscript evaluation, and proposal development. A nonfiction specialist, she will help get your manuscript into its best form in your own voice.