Testimonials for Constance Hale

Connie Hale took me by the hand and walked me through the arduous tasks of composition, step by step, with grace, exquisite taste, and just the right amount of edge.

—Stewart Friedman
Author of Total Leadership
and Leading the Life You Want

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Connie Hale is the kind of editor every writer hopes to find: insightful, sensitive, and possessing a rare gift for making sentences sing. By posing the bigger, narrative questions that confront a manuscript, she helps lift it to a higher level. Not only is she wicked smart, but she is a genuine pleasure to work with.

—Julia Flynn Siler
Author of Lost Kingdom:
Hawaii’s Last Queen the Sugar Kings,
and America’s First Imperial Adventure

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Connie Hale is a skillful and compassionate editor who has the rare ability to home in on grammar and line edits as well as see the bigger picture. Connie can help any writer, whether a beginner or an often-published professional, make prose sparkle.

—Laura Fraser
Magazine writer and author of
An Italian Affair

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Constance Hale’s editorial contributions to my book were truly extraordinary. Her enthusiasm, talent, and persistence made it much more accessible (and much shorter).

—Timothy Butler
Author of Getting Unstuck:
How Dead Ends Lead to New Paths

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After several attempts, we were totally frustrated and overwhelmed with trying to figure out how to tell women’s stories so readers could really hear and appreciate the fullness of their voices. Enter Connie Hale, our development editor. Her way of thinking about this project propelled us to a new and better vision of the manuscript. Writer extraordinaire, she taught us the craft of writing, and we were humbled by her lessons.

—Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell and Stella M. Nkomo
Authors of Our Separate Ways,
called by the Chicago Tribune
“a persuasive, insightful, and poignant look”
at race and gender in corporate America

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Constance Hale improved Code Name Ginger through spacious comprehension, acute criticisms, and astute suggestions.

—Steve Kemper
Author of Code Name Ginger,
Library Journal’s “Best Business Book of 2003”
Popular Science’s “Book of the Month,” July 2003

 

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With a diamond-cutter’s precision, Connie Hale can chip away at a piece until all unnecessary phrases are removed, thoughts are coherently organized, the story has direction and focus—and the entire work shines. She’s one of the most insightful editors I’ve ever encountered.”

—Gayle Keck
Travel and food writer
Winner, Lowell Thomas Award, 2008