LISA
THALER

DEVELOPMENTAL
EDITOR

News

Winter 2023

Life coach and wellness expert Olivia Lopez releases Finding Happiness Within: 7 Lessons on Life, Love, Hope, and Transcendental Meditation through Hay House's Balboa Press. Lisa Thaler was developmental editor.

Fall 2022

Jane G. Doyle publishes a second edition of her award-winning anthology You Heal You, with a new essay and cover design. Lisa Thaler was developmental editor of the 2022 and 2016 editions of the book and of website content.

Spring 2022

Karen Bloom Gevirtz signs with Emma Bal of Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency and Head of Zeus for The Apothecary's Wife, "the extraordinary true story of how male medical professionals displaced women and domestic medicine during England’s Scientific Revolution, changing the nature of medicine forever." Karen engaged Lisa Thaler in 2020–21 for development assistance with proposals and query letters for two books. Pub date TBA.

Winter 2021/2022

David Hovey (Images Publishing, 504 pp, 400 color illus, 10 b&w, $125) debuts January 2022. "The beautifully illustrated monograph chronicles the architecture of David C. Hovey, FAIA, and his influence on the discipline, as well as the story of his life and career." December 2021, Hovey receives two 2021 American Architecture Awards in the multi-family housing category.

Authors: Cheryl Kent, Helmut Jahn, Alex Marshall

Line Editor: Lisa Thaler

Fall 2021

Black Mountain alum, collage artist, impresario of the Nothing, and founder of the New York Correspondance[sic] School (NYCS) Ray Johnson (1927–1995) has a major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sacha Kolin, the subject of Lisa's biography Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin (Midmarch Arts, 2008), was an early member of the NYCS, and her participation and friendship with Ray are explored in Look Up. Lisa's reconstruction of a peripatetic stranger's life story through her abstract art and detritus left behind received a starred and boxed review in Booklist and a Print Regional Design Award (graphic design by Christian Marc Schmidt).

Spring 2021

Laurina Buro Carroll launches the paperback edition of her Perfect Health for Busy People: A Maharishi-Ayurveda Guide to Enjoying a Longer, Happier Life (Perfect Health Press, April 2021, 232 pp).

Line Editor: Lisa Thaler

Winter 2020/2021

From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran (Potomac Books) wins the

2020 Chicago Writers Association 2020 Book of the Year Award in traditional nonfiction, is longlisted for the 2020 Clara Johnson Award for Women's Literature, and is a finalist for the 2021 Feathered Quill Award in memoir/biography and a 2021 Eric Hoffer Book Award.

Author: Jacqueline Saper

Developmental Editor: Lisa Thaler

Author and painter Debra Darvick engages Lisa Thaler to help reconceive her website. Launched January 2021, Enhance Your Now is a post-pandemic wunderkammer, a curio cabinet of "laughter, comfort, insight, and delight."

Developmental Editor: Lisa Thaler

Fall 2020

Coming Home: Awakening through the Stillness into the Living Light is released October 2020.

Author: Fi Sutherland

Foreword by: Meredith Little

Developmental Editor: Lisa Thaler

2019

The Golden Book of Wisdom: Ancient Spirituality and Shamanism for Modern Times (2018) becomes a bestseller on Amazon UK, ranked #2 in the shamanism category.

Author: Fotoula Adrimi

Foreword by: Sandra Ingerman

Developmental Editor: Lisa Thaler

2018