Stephen Morrison, publisher of Picador
“Lindsey is very good, fast, thorough, thoughtful, charming and able to do lots of different types of books. What else can I say?”
Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes To Heal, Random House
"Thank you to Lindsey Tate, my editor and friend. You could see it when others couldn’t. Thank you for listening and treating every word with love. And thank you for your insistence that this could be done. It’s healed something in me to have had you by my side."
Wes Ely, Every Deep Drawn Breath, Scribner
"To Lindsey Tate, my incessant collaborator and partner in writing this book, words can’t adequately convey my appreciation. From our love of Dostoyevsky, we went forward. I still laugh at our joke about feeling at times as if we were trying to stuff a huge sleeping bag of information into a pouch that was too small. You always sought the theme of maintaining our
gaze on the person in the patient, and it served as our North Star."
Elena Lister and Michael Schwartzman, Giving Hope, Penguin Random House
"Lindsey Tate was an incredibly fortunate find for us as clinicians and authors. Immediately we knew that she was the one we wanted to invite on our journey to help us create this book. As the writing unfolded, we experienced her ready grasp of our message, her outstanding work ethic, her consistent reliability, and her gifted use of language. It could not have been easy working with two people—close colleagues and friends, but with their own backgrounds and styles—to make one manuscript so respectful of both of us. Somehow, she did that and more, and we are very grateful for the essential synergy she provided."
James Jackson, Clearing the Fog, Little Brown
"I’m particularly grateful for Lindsey Tate, my erstwhile editor and book coach. We had a phone call one rainy day in January to discuss what was a raw and embryonic idea and in a few short weeks we cemented a partnership and were off to the races. She is a gifted muse, a brilliant wordsmith, and far more than that, a good and faithful friend, and her lilting accent always reminds me of a peaceful English garden. She’s generous, sincere, and authentic, and I’m particularly happy because I know that the connection we’ve built will remain for years and decades to come."
Andrew Schulman, Waking the Spirit, Picador
“I could wax poetic about how wonderful it was to work with Lindsey on my book, Waking the Spirit. Unfortunately, I’m not a poet. So I’ll just say that she is brilliant and one of the nicest people to work with that I’ve ever encountered. Her editing was so good that I never once felt my voice was being changed, in fact she always made me sound better. She loves doing research and in this non-fiction book that was a blessing for me (I don’t love doing research) because she’d find just the right bit of information to support an argument or assertion. I recommend Lindsey without hesitation.”
Lior Suchard, Mind Reader, HarperCollins
“As a professional mentalist, I travel constantly and live a hectic, crazy life and it was cool to know that I didn’t have to worry about the book. Lindsey refused to allow me to miss deadlines, tracked me down on different continents when things became urgent, and worked as my liaison with editors, production, and designers. She attended editorial meetings with me, suggested ideas for promotion and foreign sales, and has been hugely supportive of me and the book. She became a good friend. I can’t wait until I have another book to write with her.”
Adam Korn, HarperCollins, editor of Mind Reader by Lior Suchard
“My experience working with Lindsey hasn't only been a pleasure because she is a good writer and stays true to the author's voice, but, most importantly, she's incredibly sympathetic, and helps the author answer the questions that are most important to readers. She intrinsically understands how to help an author deliver an important message through story and thus, I believe, is a rare kind of author collaborator.”
John Bramblitt, Shouting in the Dark, Globe Pequot
“Lindsey is easy to talk to, and is incredibly considerate. The work that we did together involved me discussing many events that had been painful and stressful in the past, but Lindsey made the process extremely easy. She has a gift when it comes to expressing complex emotions and events, and making them very relatable to the reader.”
Lara Asher, Globe Pequot, editor of Shouting in the Dark by John Bramblitt
“Lindsey found a way to tell John’s story eloquently and piercingly. She perfectly captured John’s voice throughout, so that the book has a truly intimate feel to it—as if you are having a one-on-one conversation with John. Sometimes, when a book has a co-author or ghostwriter it can be difficult to truly convey the author’s tone, but Lindsey has that necessary skill of being able to write beautifully while also truly expressing the voice of the author. But she also managed to dig deeper and subtly challenge the reader to explore his or her perceptions of blindness and what it truly means to see. The book is far richer than I could have ever imagined.”
