About
Renee Wilmeth is the author and editor of Feed Me/Drink Me, a popular Indianapolis food and wine blog with more than 25,000 local readers each month. As a content specialist and publishing consultant, she specializes in content development, author branding, promotional integration, and virtual community. With more than 15 years experience in trade book publishing, she has served as senior acquisitions editor for Alpha Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), publisher of the popular Complete Idiot’s Guide line of how-to books. She has also acquired and edited titles for Webster’s New World, Macmillan (USA), and Ziff Davis Press. As an entrepreneur, she co-founded Literary Architects, a hybrid trade publisher in 2005.

Coming of professional age in the early days of the Internet content and web boom in San Francisco, Wilmeth has deep experience in content design, book, magazine, newspaper, and blog writing, editing, and management. Over her career, she has consulted and provided strategy for Silicon Valley companies including Niehaus Ryan Haller, Yahoo! and Organic Online.
In addition to Feed Me/Drink Me, Wilmeth writes on food for Indianapolis Monthly and serves as a judge for Indianapolis Dine magazines. She is a member of the fine dining society Conferie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs and sits on the Program Advisory Committee for the International Culinary School at The Art Institute of Indianapolis and she sits for her first level sommelier exam in September 2008.

Wilmeth is currently co-authoring her first trade book with voting machine technology experts Barbara Simons and Douglas W. Jones due in hardcover in 2009.