Overview
I'm a writer and editor based in Somerville, MA. For almost three years, I worked as an Assistant Editor at Little, Brown & Company in New York, and collaborated on several bestselling books including Circe by Madeleine Miller, Do I Make Myself Clear by Harold Evans, and The Forever Summer by Jamie Brenner. I've helped to publish Emma Donoghue, Maria Semple, Whitney Scharer, and Katie Couric, just to name a few favorites.Prior to Little, Brown, I worked as a Production Assistant at Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Rachael Ray Show. Yes, I've met famous people. Yes, I was chill about it.A proud graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, I love collaborating with creative individuals on scripts, novels, and narrative non-fiction. I love reading stories with a strong sense of place, and a confident authorial voice.I'm a left-handed Kansas native, Libra, and avowed Slytherin.I'd love to work with you on manuscript and proposal development; comp title and market research; conceptual, line, and structural edits; copyediting and proofreading; copywriting and ghostwriting of brand materials, book proposals, and short-form content; content ideation and strategy; communications consulting; and storytelling coaching.I've done a lot of different things, and I can’t wait to help you do a lot of different things too.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
True Crime
Fiction
Humor & Comedy
Mystery & Crime
Plays & Screenplays
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Languages
English (US)
Work experience
Little, Brown & Company
Dec, 2016 —
Jun, 2019
(over 2 years)
-Guide authors throughout story development, editing process, copy-writing, marketing & publicity
-Titles include NYT Bestsellers Do I Make Myself Clear? by Sir Harry Evans, Circe by Madeline Miller,
and Nobel prize-winner Malala Yousafzai’s memoir I Am Malala
-Read and report on both non-fiction proposals and fiction submissions for potential acquisition
-Assist Editor-in Chief with administrative tasks, business appointments and travel
Portfolio
From the bestselling author of What Was Mine-a deeply moving family drama about a young Irish immigrant, an ancestral home in New England and a dark secret that lay hidden in its walls for five generations.In 1908, sixteen-year-old Bridey runs away from her sm... read more
The explosive debut novel - about family, power and privilege - from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the YearMark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made ... read more
VICTIM.SURVIVOR.ABDUCTOR.CRIMINAL.YOU WILL BECOME EACH ONE."This nightmarish story is incredibly propulsive and original. You won't shake it for a long time."STEPHEN KING "McKinty is one of the most striking and most memorable crime voices to emerge on the sce... read more
Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved... read more
A raucous and vividly dishy memoir by the only woman writer on the masthead of Rolling Stone Magazine in the early Seventies.In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices Rolling Stone magazine. She had just moved to Berkeley, Californi... read more
Let Her Fly traces the inspirational journey of Malala Yousafzai's father, Ziauddin, from a boy in Shangla to a man who broke with tradition and proves there are many faces of feminism.With humor and sincerity, Yousafzai describes his life before the Talibaniz... read more
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru h... read more
*New York Times Bestseller *One of NPR's Best Books of 2017A wise and entertaining guide to writing English the proper way by one of the greatest newspaper editors of our time. Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to... read more
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times).In... read more
After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft. Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old... read more
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.Noah Selvagg... read more
A heart-breaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma."It is more than a superb and tragic novel; it's a historical treasure."-- Boston Gl... read more
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charl... read more
An unexpected inheritance, a promise broken, and four lives changed forever: discover "the gold standard of summertime escapism" from USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner (Elin Hilderbrand).Summer has started in idyllic Sag Harbor, and for Emma Mapson th... read more
"Rapturous and razor sharp all at once, The Age of Light fearlessly unzips anything we might know of Lee Miller as model and muse and recasts her as artist, free thinker and architect of a singular and unapologetic life. This novel sparks on every page." --Pau... read more
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