Carol Cartaino - Myths and Truths About Coyotes: What You Need to Know About Americas Most Misunderstood Predator

C arol Cartaino, a native of New Jersey and graduate of Rutgers University (major in English and minor in biology), has had a lifetime interest in animals and the outdoors. Growing up, she had just about every pet animal known and walked home from the library every week with armloads of books on wild animals. All of her best time as a child was spent in the woods near home or on her grandparents farm in Western Pennsylvania. As an adult she has spent many happy hours hiking, camping, fishing, kayaking, and engaging in outdoor photography and nature study.

For the past 40 years, Carol has been a professional book editor and writers collaborator, working on almost every subject imaginable within nonfiction, with a strong emphasis on how-to, self-help, and reference. She has helped many authorsfrom the editors of Field & Stream and Arizona Highways to scuba divers, photographers, plastic surgeons, veterinarians, and experts on moonshine and cookeryto produce satisfying books. In her ten years as an editor in the Trade Division of Prentice-Hall, Inc., books on nature and gardening were among her specialties. In the decade that followed she was editor-in-chief of Writers Digest Books in Cincinnati. In the years since, she has been a freelance editor and book doctor for literary agents, publishers, and individual authors.

Since 1980, Carol has also served as editor and collaborator for best-selling author Don Aslett, whose books have sold a total of more than three million copies.

Carol lives with her son and many pets on a 66-acre farm in Southern Ohio, on which she can continue her nature study and listen to the coyote songs.

R ichard S. (Rick) Cartaino, of Fort Myers, Florida, was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. His favorite job there was driving a 60-passenger commuter bus from the NJ suburbs into New York City. He moved to Florida in 1969, where he worked in retail management in the restaurant and mens clothing business. After that he went into law enforcement and is now a retired Deputy Sheriff of Lee County. Richard likes to watch and photograph wildlife; other hobbies include boating, fishing, swimming, woodworking, electronics, and gardening coupled with tending to his handsome collection of tropical plants and trees. Richard lives with his wife Marguerite and has three grown children and two grandchildren.

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