I have worked as an editor of expert-driven nonfiction for twenty-five years, at both magazines and book publishers, and have worked for the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History, and Basic Books, where I rose to the role of VP / associate publisher. 

At Basic, books I edited and published won awards such as the  Financial Times Business Book of the Year; New York Times Notable Books; the John Burroughs Medal; and the Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and were finalists for many others, including  the PEN / EO Wilson Prize and the Royal Society Science Book Prize.  

My heart was never in management, so of course I started my own company, which I have to manage myself! But what that change enables me to do is focus most on what is most rewarding about book editing: working with authors.

I called my company Linden and Lime because those are two names—along with, in the US, basswood—for the trees of the genus Tilia. To borrow from Shakespeare, when they bloom, the sweetness of their fragrance transcends any particular description. The linden and the lime should remind us that there is more than one way to describe this world in which we live. My job is to help you find the best one for you.