Overview
With 10 years of publishing experience, I'm an editorial expert with a passion for making your book the most fantastic read possible. I'm also the founder of a literary agency specializing in adult literary and commercial fiction, and I'm a trained editor, production editor, proofreader, and copyeditor. I've worked with and edited award-winning and bestselling authors and brands like William Kent Krueger, Francine Rivers, Sandra Dallas, Nicole Baart, Elizabeth Blackwell, Kristen Simmons, Lee Sandlin, Mark Bittman, Better Homes & Gardens, Betty Crocker, and Nickelodeon.My experience encompasses everything from developmental editing to prep a manuscript for submission to editors; proofreading page proofs; creating and formatting ebooks for self- or professional publishing; and copyediting final manuscripts. My agency experience makes me a great fit for micro and macro edits for manuscripts and query letters! (Please note: My portfolio is a sampling of the hundreds of books I've worked on over my career - happy to share more specifics with interested clients.)
Services
Fiction
Christian Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Romance
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Non-Fiction
Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits
Languages
English (US)
Work experience
The Lark Group
Sep, 2016 —
Present
• Broker sales of book projects
• Review queries and identify market viability of submitted work; edit manuscripts; compose and edit sales materials; negotiate deal points and contracts between authors and publishing houses
• Initiate, negotiate, and close deals and contracts for project subsidiary sales, including foreign translation, audio, and film rights
• Build and maintain client and publisher relationships
Browne & Miller Literary Associates
May, 2013 —
Aug, 2016
(over 3 years)
• Launched and managed Browne & Miller’s digital initiative, selling titles and liaising on digital production with publishers; converting select projects from print to digital in house
• Brokered sales of book projects and built and maintained client and publisher relationships
• Initiated, negotiated, and closed deals and contracts for project subsidiary sales, including foreign translation, audio, and film rights
Sourcebooks
Jun, 2012 —
May, 2013
(11 months)
• Project managed all aspects of the production process for over titles annually in education, gift, and memoir lines
• Supervised scheduling, freelancer management, budgeting, and manuscript and page quality control for each title; and handled top brands, including Discovery’s HowStuffWorks and the Fiske Guide to Colleges
• Founded and led the company’s Ebook Team
John Wiley & Sons
Jun, 2008 —
Jun, 2012
(about 4 years)
• Managed the production process forProfessional and Trade culinary/cookery line, including author and brand management and color correction.
Portfolio
The author of the “funny, sweet, suspenseful, and smoking hot” (Beth Kery) Body Works series is back with a dangerously seductive new trilogy...His job is to find her, not to fall for her...Marsella Talent has been on the run for two years, ever since her fath... read more
First in the sexy and suspenseful Body Work TrilogyAnna Rossi lives by one simple rule: don’t get attached, don’t get hurt. But Alec Flynn doesn’t play by the rules…Anna never takes on a massage client without screening him first, but the paycheck offered by b... read more
A cookie collection packed with holiday cheer! Offering more than 200 irresistible recipes for every flavor, from simple drop cookies to bars, brownies, and more, Very Merry Cookies is the perfect cookie compendium for baking enthusiasts and novices alike. Fil... read more
A culinary reference packed with thousands of straightforward definitions and fun tips and trivia Perfect for cooks, food lovers, and even trivia buffs, The Culinarian is a wide-ranging kitchen reference that no cupboard should be without. With plain-English d... read more
Discover the flavors of Mexican street food in your own kitchen Americans are having a love affair with the taco. What began as affection for the fast-food version—that hard yellow shell filled with ground beef and mysterious yellow cheese—has blossomed into a... read more
Introduce your kids to cooking... with help from the Sesame Street gang! Find more than 50 simple, tasty recipes for healthy breakfasts, lunches, dinners, sweets and treats,and more. Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, Ernie and Bert,Oscar the Grouch, Abby Cadabby, ... read more
An engrossing and suspenseful novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Amy Hatvany about an affluent suburban family whose carefully constructed facade starts to come apart with the unexpected arrival of an endangered young girl.I have something for you. When Quin... read more
Mark Bittman's award-winning How to Cook Everything has helped countless home cooks discover the rewards of simple cooking. Now the ultimate cookbook has been revised and expanded (almost half the material is new), making it absolutely indispensable for anyone... read more
When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother go to keep her family safe?Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children—until they see fire... read more
The year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a way out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face with the handsome heir to a Chicago fortune, she thinks she may have found her es... read more
The next best thing to having Mark Bittman in the kitchen with you Mark Bittman's highly acclaimed, bestselling book How to Cook Everything is an indispensable guide for any modern cook. With How to Cook Everything The Basics he reveals how truly easy it is to... read more
SANDRA DALLAS is the author of fourteen novels, including A Quilt for Christmas, Fallen Women, True Sisters, The Bride's House, Whiter Than Snow, Prayers for Sale, Tallgrass and New Mercies. She is a former Denver bureau chief for Business Week magazine and li... read more
The lure of intrigue leads a young woman down a path of danger and into the passionate embrace of a daring stranger.Bored with the dull suitors and shallow admirers of London, Anne Westin sets out for New Orleans in search of a new kind of man. She finds what ... read more
“Bonnie K. Winn presents a love story filled with insight into her characters’ needs, loyalties and honor that readers will adore.” –Romantic TimesTomboy Jem Whitaker has no interest in marriage, but if she hopes to keep her family ranch, she must find a husba... read more
The Taggart brothers’ wild romance ride continues with the new novel from the bestselling author of Renegade.Rough riding Bodey Taggart may be rock hard and tough as nails, but even he has a soft side when the right woman comes along...Bodey has always followe... read more
The bestselling author of Desperado returns with another sexy cowboy from the Taggart family...The rugged and wild Taggart brothers know how to tame a restless beast, but a restless heart is a different matter... When tragedy struck, Jace Taggart stepped in to... read more
From bestselling author Lisa Bingham comes the first in a brand-new series starring a trio of handsome wranglers. The Taggart brothers have bodies of iron and hearts of gold—though both may be a shade tarnished. But that doesn’t stop them from trying to keep t... read more
Two sisters.One man.One obsession. Abigail Bennett is poised, confident, and successful—and convinced that nothing can shake the firm foundation she has constructed for herself. But when tragedy causes her orderly world to come crashing down, she becomes consu... read more
From the highly acclaimed author of Far From Here and Sleeping in Eden, described as “intense and absorbing from the very first page” (Heather Gudenkauf), comes a gripping new novel about two former best friends and the secrets they can’t escape.Adrienne Vogt ... read more
In the extraordinary new Cork O’Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter’s wedding.Since the viol... read more
Photojournalist by trade, distillery owner by blood, and amateur sleuth by necessity, Abigail Logan learns that murder can’t stay bottled up forever in this charming Whisky Business Mystery. It’s been three months since Abi Logan last checked in on Abbey Glen,... read more
Abigail Logan never expected to inherit a whisky distillery in the Scottish Highlands. But in the first novel of an engaging new series blending fine spirits with chilling mystery, Abi finds that there are secrets lurking in the misty glens that some will go t... read more
