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Teri Dunn Chace is a writer and editor with over 30 titles in publication (Friedman-Fairfax, Cool Springs Press, Timber Press). She's written and edited extensively for several major gardening publications (Horticulture, North American Gardener, Birds & Blooms, Backyard Living).

She brings complex scientific and environmental topics to general audiences in her engaging and accurately researched articles for various regional magazines, including the local Audubon Magazine and the Appalachian Mountain Club's journal.

For clients ranging from Reader's Digest to Storey Publishing to Harris Publications, she project-manages (edits, writes, photo-researches) other authors' books as well as consumer SIPs (Special-Interest Publications). She is also an accomplished travel and food writer.

As a Senior Copywriter, she has worked on-staff and as a consultant to numerous direct-marketing companies (B-to-B as well as B-to-C), from pet supplies to roses to outdoor-living products/furnishings to scented candles. Her copywriting for Jackson & Perkins gained her the industry's highest award, The Catalog Age Gold Award.

She has written and edited for the nation's leading roadside-travel 'zine and website, Roadside (and Roadsideonline.com), on topics ranging from "Why Greeks and Diners?" to urban- planning issues to comfort-food recipes to iconic on-the-road books.

The most intriguing job she's ever held? Monitoring rare turtles for The Nature Conservancy. Or...raising teenage boys.

Born in California and educated at Bard College in New York, Teri lived for many years on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, the ruggedly beautiful rocky coast north of Boston. She now lives in a small upstate New York village where the summers are glorious and the winters are very, very snowy.

She works under the following names: Teri Dunn, Teri Chace, Teri Dunn Chace, Julie Drysdale.

Her website (with clickable work samples) is:
http://terichacewriter.com/

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2.0 out of 5 stars Nice Photographs - Typically readily available roses, July 24, 1998

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This review is from: 100 Favorite Roses (Hardcover)

I will buy virtually any book on roses so I don't regret buying this one. The book provides each rose a single page and photograph so its fun to just look at the pictures, annotated with the relevant stats and a short description of the rose. The author has a long association with Jackson-Perkins and Horticulture Magazine. For me, the book's shortcomings are fairly serious. Reviewing the descriptions of the roses made it immensely obvious that the author and I don't use similar criteria when identifying favorite roses. The term 'favorite' is a purely subjective term so one can't critique the author for a value judgement, nevertheless, I wouldn't let this list of favorites guide my selection of roses to plant. For example, one favorite rose had the following in the description: "Mildew and blackspot are often a problem", "It is not especially hardy" and has "slight fragrance." Another rose had "sparse growth and inhibited flower! ing when hot" while at the same time being "not super hardy". Those roses wouldn't go in my garden. Just as a nicety, I always look for a bibliography and this book had none. Cultivation was only very briefly touched on.

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