Writing & Editing Resources

What about my own writing? How nice of you to ask. Most of my income comes from serving as an author's editor/ghost writer for busy medical researchers. I also work for companies, professional societies, and nonprofit organizations involved in some aspect of clinical nutrition and/or nutritional science. I've also written grants, produced newsletters, created patient-education materials, put together posters for scientific meetings, and dozens of other medical writing and editing chores that arise in the teaching hospital environment.

I was technical editor for Play Hard, Eat Right: A Parents' Guide to Sports Nutrition for Children (Chronimed Publishing, 1995), am coauthor of a chapter published in The Clinical Evaluation of a Food Additive: Assessment of Aspartame (CRC Press, 1996), and indexed and (to a certain extent) copyedited Obesity: Pathophysiology, Psychology, and Treatment (Chapman & Hall, 1994).

I wrote Dr. Tom Linden's Guide to Online Medicine with/for Dr. Tom and McGraw-Hill (1996).

Robert and I threw together Cycling in Cyberspace for Bicycle Books (1996). We may also produce a companion CD for it.

I wrote the AMA Essential Guide to Hypertension, which is about what it sounds like (and published by the American Medical Association/Pocket Books, 1998). I enjoyed working with the AMA and hope to write another book manuscript for them soon.

I wrote another Internet medical resource book, this one for health care professionals, called (by the publisher, not me) Online Guide to Medical Research for Ventana Communications (1998). This title is available through Coriolis Press, which took over Ventana in 1997 and decided to keep my book in their catalog.

I'm currently researching my next book, a historical nonfiction narrative about Puritans who don't behave as such ... divorce, adultery, bastard children, abused children, abused wife (attempted murder), abused servants, embezzlement ... and the tangled, multi-year court battle it took one courageous woman to regain her life and sanity. I couldn't believe what I was reading when I found the original records at the Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston, Mass, and I suspect you won't believe it either when you read the book. This is a made for motion picture tale if I can ever get it off my desk and into the hands of a publisher. My sister, Char Forsten, is prodding me along, as is my favorite professor at Williams College, Patricia Tracy, PhD, who oversaw the original research as part of my thesis there.

Oh, and I have one lonely poem published in an anthology and a drawerful of unpublished (and probably unpublishable) short stories.

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