About Wherewithal

Anything involving text in English, we handle

Our main focus—and first love—is editing. Everyone needs an editor, because editing works wonders. The editor-edited relationship can be hugely rewarding.

We are based in Manhattan's Lower East Side and work with clients around the world.

We work a lot with professionals who have expertise to burn, and successful practices, but who could use a project manager and writing coach to help them share that knowledge with a wider audience.

More about our publishing background: We learned the art and craft of editing at the Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Group, since renamed Knopf Doubleday and now part of Penguin Random House. We then moved on to Basic Books and Counterpoint Press. In 2005 we quit big publishing and founded Wherewithal, so we could focus less on acquisitions and more on the aspects of book publishing we most enjoyed: close collaboration with authors.

We are generalists who know a little bit about a lot of things. History, art history, U.S. politics, business, organizational and organizational development, architecture, urban planning, sociology, cultural criticism, biography, women’s health, parenting. We’ve even edited diet books. We also love a smart memoir and literary fiction.

Books we’ve worked on have received awards, glowing reviews, and been optioned for film.

Many Wherewithal clients have book contracts in hand but want more lift than their publisher provides. Increasingly we are also seeing clients who opt to self-publish.

More personal info, though mostly random quotes and images, can be found at meganhustad.com.