Susan Suffes susuff@aol.com    (212) 682-3799 SpecialtiesBusiness, diet, finance, health, real estate, and self-help. Profile An acquisitions editor for over twenty years, Susan Suffes worked for several mainstream publishing houses, including Bobbs-Merrill, Arbor House, Beaufort Books, and Warner Books. Among the nonfiction books she edited are bestsellers by John Sarno, M.D. (Healing Back Pain), Robert Kriegel (If It Ain’t Broke . . . BREAK IT!), Sherman Silber, M.D. (How to Get Pregnant with the New Technology), Stephanie Winston (Getting Organized, rev. ed.), and Mark Sanborn (The Fred Factor).

As publisher of Beaufort Books she also acquired British novels for U.S. publication, including works by Michael Bond, creator of Paddington Bear; Penelope Lively, Booker Prize– and Whitbread Award–winner; and Frederic Raphael, Academy Award–winning screenwriter.

Susan Suffes has been providing independent editing and writing services since 1997. She offers the following: evaluations of proposals and manuscripts, proposal writing, coauthoring and ghosting manuscripts, rewriting and editing proposals and manuscripts, writing articles, and consulting. Among her clients are business people who self-publish as well as bestselling authors published by Currency/Doubleday, Gallup Press, and Rodale. They include Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad’s Success Stories), Curt Coffman (Follow This Path), and Judith Wurtman, Ph.D., and Nina Marquis, M.D. (The Serotonin Power Diet).

She says, “Everyone needs an unbiased specialist to assess, edit, organize, and polish his or her writing.”