Overview
I am a former Penguin Random House assistant editor who specialized in romance and cozy mysteries. Though life has taken me from one coast to the other and landed me back in the Midwest, I still love to consume and edit books. For the past few years I've been freelance editing with Radish Fiction, a serialized fiction app for romance novels, where I've worked on a number of high heat romance series. I also freelance with ByteDance's new publishing branch 8th Note Press, working mainly on romance and cozy mystery titles.
In addition to my editorial insights, I am a stickler for small details and identifying inconsistencies. If you have a project you're passionate about, I'm happy to help give it shape and craft it into something you can feel good about and your readers will love.
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Self-employed
Copy edit content for grammar, awkward phrasing, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and continuity. Provide developmental edits to ensure consistency in voice, tone, characterization, and plot for various high heat romance series.
Penguin Random House
Edited and managed commercial fiction books on tight deadlines, offering creative feedback and editorial guidance to authors, and performing substantive content edits and line-edits on manuscripts.
In addition to my own authors, I worked alongside two senior editors on manuscripts for New York Times bestselling author Miranda James, Victoria Hamilton/Amanda Cooper/Donna Lea Simpson, Susannah Hardy, Jean Flowers, Laura DiSilverio, Terrie Farley Moran, Mary Kennedy, Nancy J. Parra, Elaine Viets, Laura Bradford/Elizabeth Lynn Casey, and M.L. Rowland for the cozy mystery genre. For the romance genre, I worked on manuscripts for Lisa Desrochers and Stephanie Julian.
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