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“Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.” Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Renee M. Wilmeth is an experienced publishing professional with nearly 30 years in consumer-trade, professional, and scholarly publishing including books, journals, and magazines. She began her career in magazines and public relations in Silicon Valley in the technology and education fields. From there, she moved into books serving as development editor, acquiring editor, and senior editor positions with Simon and Schuster, Ziff-Davis, Macmillan USA, Alpha, and later Pearson Education and Penguin USA. She served as the publisher for five years at Sigma Theta Tau International, the Honor Society of Nursing, expanding their scholarly and cross-over book publishing program and managing their magazines and scholarly journals.

She has extensive experience in consumer trade and professional publishing including books, magazines, sales and marketing/communications. She is a former senior editor with Penguin Group (USA) where she acquired and edited more than 300 lifestyle books including business, leadership, lifestyle topics like food and gardening, sports, leadership, management, and religion. She relaunched Alpha’s food and wine lists with chefs, food writers, and wine experts including Daniel Boulud, Steve Olson, Ellen Brown. She’s worked with business leaders, researchers, international leaders, sports celebrities, chefs, winemakers, and experts across the US and internationally. She was Publisher at the scholarly society Sigma Theta Tau International for 5 years managing a book and scholarly journal program in nursing. and frequently edits books on healthcare, nutrition, patient care, and care philosophy.

Today, Wilmeth is an independent ghostwriter and editor doing what she loves most – working with authors, agents, and publishers to achieve successful publishing outcomes. She has ghostwritten and edited books for clients in business, leadership, sales operations, culture, technology, health, nutrition, clinical care, and aging. She has ghostwritten and packaged cookbooks for clients from recipe development to art direction. She has written for national and regional magazines on business, leadership, publishing, marketing, history, food, and wine and is a frequent contributor to Wine and Whiskey Globe and Adam Smith Works. She has served as editor on books by Mary Berry, Sandro Farmhouse, Dr. Michael Goran, and Australian Women’s Weekly. 

While many her clients are confidential, she’s ghostwritten or contributed to more than 10 books in the past 4 years including award winners in a variety of topics including culture, aging, spirituality, and leadership.

She frequently works with DK and other US and UK publishers on titles for their global market. She leads international reading groups in literary analysis for the educational foundation Liberty Fund and writes a regular column on 18th century food history and the Enlightenment for Adam Smith Works.

In 2008, she passed the Introductory Court of Master Sommeliers exam and she is a member of the Confrerie de Chevaliers des Tastevin, the Commanderie de Bordeaux, and the Confrerie de la Chaine de Rotisseurs where she is a former national board member. She has also served on curriculum committees for multiple culinary programs as an advocate for robust wine and beverage programs. She is a frequent traveler for wine and has strong relationships with winemakers in France, Italy, Oregon, Napa Valley, Sonoma, and the Central Coast of California.  

She also manages the wheat and cotton farming operation in north Texas that’s been in the Wilmeth family for more than 110 years.