Amy Gash – Editor

“Amy pulled my writing career from the dumps to the New York Times bestseller list. She saw possibilities in my work everyone else missed. Under her wise, thoughtful and always respectful hand, she transformed the unpublishable into The Art Forger, which sold a half-million copies. Then she edited my next four novels with her usual brilliant insights, thoughtful critiques and a great sense of humor. If you want to work with the best, work with Amy Gash.”

—B.A. Shapiro, New England Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forger

“Amy helped me reenter a new novel after fourteen years away. I needed an impossible combination of encouragement and criticism, a guide I could trust to support me through my stumbles while also hold me to my best. Patience and persistence and passion—Amy gave her all. With her as my editor I ended up with a better book than the one I ever believed I could write. Oh, and did I mention, she’s delightful, so smart, funny, and fun to work with?”

—Julia Alvarez, National Medal of Arts recipient and author of In the Time of the Butterflies, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Afterlife, and The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Amy is the perfect editor. She’s smart, experienced, highly skilled, a joy to work with, and endlessly patient and encouraging—an inspiring coach and a loyal cheerleader rolled into one. Her superpower is challenging writers to up their game and craft better stories. Amy edited three of my books of historical true crime and each collaboration made me a better writer and storyteller.”

—Dean Jobb, CrimeCon CLUE Award winner and author of A Gentleman and a Thief

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As an acquiring book editor for 30 years, most recently as executive editor at Algonquin Books/Hachette Book Group, I edited award-winning and bestselling fiction and nonfiction. I bring that experience to help you develop a compelling narrative, write a selling proposal, line edit your manuscript, and offer advice about how to highlight the themes in your writing. I have an up-to-date sense of the publishing market and my goal is to ensure your project will appeal to agents, editors, and readers. My favorite thing to do is dig deep inside a manuscript and then work closely with a writer to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the work, looking at structure, voice, tone, pacing and assessing its overall effectiveness. Whether you're writing a nonfiction book, including memoir, history, popular science, true crime, and the natural world, or a novel, I can guide you from big picture development to finding the perfect word that makes a sentence come alive. I can also help you position your project and pinpoint your readership, which will give you a better chance of landing a book deal.