Testimonials
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with an amazing range of authors, often on numerous projects. Here's a sampling of what they have to say about our partnership:
"Mindy Werner, editor, word Ninja, and good friend, once again worked her magic with my manuscript." -- from You're Not the Boss of Me by Betsy Brown Braun, bestselling author and child development and behavior specialist
"I have been exceedingly fortunate to have worked with my editor, Mindy Werner, on numerous publications over the years of our literary relationship which dates back to the early 1990s. But my most recent book, Institutional Time, presented both of us with a formidable challenge because my writing style tends towards narration. This time, I was asked to balance a narrative approach with a series of themes, which was very difficult for me. Without Mindy as my guide, there was no way that I could have accomplished it. In fact, the many books on which we worked together were made possible by her supreme editorial skills. In other words, she's the best." -- Judy Chicago, artist and author
"Mindy Werner is the finest editor of book manuscripts that I've encountered in more than 40 years of writing. An old style editor who knows your book about as well as you do after her multiple readings, Mindy applies her acute intelligence and editorial skills to help reshape the manuscript, to address what seems to work and what is unnecessary or simply too much information. While she has definite opinions that she expresses with great clarity, she never is dogmatic and never loses sight that she is helping to edit, not write, your book. I worked on two lengthy manuscripts with Mindy; neither would have been nearly as good without her hard work, analytic skills, and editorial suggestions. She is the best and I would recommend her to anyone interested in improving his or her book." -- Jonathan R. Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University, Provost and Dean of Faculties (1989-2003), Columbia University
"I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Mindy Werner, who intuitively understood what I was trying to do and helped make the book immeasurably better. . ." -- from The Empty Room by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, journalist and author
"I already miss my Tuesdays with Mindy. . . . Our every-Tuesday calls kept me on task, even when I was overwhelmed with other deadlines. . . . Mindy reviewed and critiqued every chapter many times over, and always was willing to look again, question again." -- from Living Time by Bernadine Healy, M.D., former head of the NIH
"'Luckily, [The Republic of Love] was edited by Mindy Werner. . . . It was the first time any novel I'd written was drastically cut. Mindy was wonderful; she cut two huge chunks and about a thousand smaller ones. [S]he had a kind of genius for making me think it had really been my idea to do the cuts.' Shields attributes her growing American success to Werner's astuteness. . ." -- from a Publishers Weekly interview with Carol Shields, bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction