Caroline Rose, Wordsmith

Caroline Rose is a technical writer, editor, and consultant whose vast experience includes:

  • editing technical documentation and creating editorial style guides for numerous companies, including Apple, Rational Software (now IBM), and Nokia

  • coauthoring new editions of the PDF Reference and PostScript Language Reference books for Adobe

  • being editor in chief of develop, Apple's award-winning technical journal for developers

  • managing NeXT's publications group, and writing and editing many NeXT manuals

  • being primary author and editor of the original Macintosh developer documentation and WriteNow For Macintosh user manual

If you'd like to look at Caroline's resumé or drop her a line, please do!

Here's some feedback on her work:

  • Before long I figured out that if Caroline had trouble understanding something, it probably meant the design was flawed.

    — Andy Hertzfeld (programmer on the original Mac team), Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made, December 2004

  • Caroline Rose is the best I've ever seen at [making engineers] think clearly about what they're designing. She's just without peer.

    — Chris Espinosa (publications manager on the original Mac team), interview, June 2000

  • [Caroline] edits content, not just style. She spots problems in logic — from high-level organizational issues to low-level semantic flaws ... Her eye for stylistic issues was as good as I have ever seen.

    — Sholom K. Surges (former documentation manager at Adobe Systems), letter of recommendation, October 1998

  • [WriteNow For Macintosh] is a straightforward text editor/word processor, distinguished by having about the clearest manual I've ever seen.

    — Jerry Pournelle, Byte, June 1987

  • Caroline Rose inspired me by being the best technical writer I've ever known, and by writing Inside Macintosh, without which no other Macintosh technical books would be possible.

    — Scott Knaster, How to Write Macintosh Software, 1986