Dear Susan, first, we want to say a huge thank-you. You have done such a tremendous job on the edits to the book! Your practical and thoughtful DE comments are extremely useful and will bring a continuity and polish to our project. We want you to know how grateful we are that you are the DE for this book. You clearly care about social justice issues and have a tremendous amount of knowledge and skills to offer the book.
…I have enjoyed working with you. Furthermore, I found your reorganization within the chapters invaluable. I think the entire book reads significantly better as a result of your suggested changes. Not only that, but you actually took the time to re-write the introduction, and it is much improved. We like the new and improved version. Moreover, you presented a step-by-step outline to which we could refer and I actually checked off each item as I completed it.
Dear Susan, I have now finished reading through your edits and as I expected, they are more than I had hoped for. You did a great job getting into my head and your changes were consistent with my intent and captured what I was trying to say.
Robert Boriskin
High school teacher and author of a blog on flipping the classroom
Susan provided insightful advice about improving every aspect of the book you are now reading. She has this wonderful ability to see potential–to see what is currently on the page and to imagine what it can be.
R. Eric Landrum
from the Preface of Finding Jobs With a Psychology Bachelor’s Degree
Susan’s particular strength as an editor was that she had the interest and intelligence to understand our topic. Because of that understanding, her re-organization of the manuscript enhanced the presentation of our ideas. Further, we could trust that any passage she found obscure really did need clarifying, and any items she found redundant really did need eliminating. Finally, her line edits never accidentally changed the point being made, because she understood what the point was.
I think with these changes the manuscript is incredibly improved. I am most grateful for your careful reading and your detailed suggestions for improvement along with the suggestions of the [peer] reviewers…Thanks for all of your hard work on behalf of this book. It is clearly a far better product due to your efforts.
Russell A. Barkley, PhD
Author, When an Adult You Love Has ADHD: Professional Advice for Parents, Partners, and Siblings