Meet Mindy

Mindy Werner has more than 30 years of publishing experience. In 1980, after graduating from the University of Michigan and the Publishing Institute at the University of Denver, she began her career as an Editorial Assistant at Basic Books. After stints at The Dial Press and Doubleday, she moved to Viking Penguin as an Associate Editor and in time was named Executive Editor. Her responsibilities included acquiring and overseeing all aspects of publishing a range of fiction and non-fiction, hardcover and trade paperbacks, originals and reprints - approximately 20-25 each year.

In 1998, Mindy left corporate publishing to work as an editorial consultant to authors, agents and publishers, including PublicAffairs, Scribner, HarperCollins, Hyperion, and Viking. She has edited proposals and manuscripts covering a range of topics, including fiction, narrative non-fiction, health, parenting, personal finance and political and social science.

Mindy is a versatile editor who takes great pleasure in working behind the scenes on behalf of her authors, some of whom she's been associated with for multiple projects. She has worked with academicians who want to write for the general reader as well as first-time authors who need help in shaping their prose into a marketable, publishable manuscript.

Mindy is the recipient of the Carey-Thomas Award for Distinguished Publishing and was an Editorial Fellow at the Jerusalem International Book Fair. She has lectured at universities and writers' conferences, reviewed books for various publications and has been on the advisory board of a small press.

In her free time Mindy loves reading for pleasure, drinking coffee, taking long walks, and spending time with her family. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

Award-Winning and Critically-Acclaimed Books

Mindy has edited numerous bestselling, award-winning and critically-acclaimed books, including Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression by Brooke Shields; The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nation Book Critics Circle Award; and Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.