Carin Siegfried – Editor

I now work for myself on a varied range of manuscripts, both fiction and nonfiction. I work at every stage of the project from book doctoring to manuscript assessment to developmental and line editing, and I help writers go through the self-publishing or traditional publishing process as a consultant.

I was the territory manager for New England, visiting hundreds of bookstores across the region for almost three years. Then I worked in National Accounts as a product manager working on accounts such as PetSmart, Petco, Kmart, and Whole Foods.

While at St. Martin’s Press, I edited and managed the publication of between 12-25 books per year in addition to editing and managing the publication of 10-15 books for my boss. One book I edited went on to become a Barnes & Noble Great New Writers selection (Life at These Speeds by Jeremy Jackson). Another book I acquired (Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber by Adele Lang) was selected as the second Kelly Ripa Book Club selection on Live With Regis and Kelly and reached #14 on the New York Times bestseller list (hardcover fiction). I edited half fiction, half nonfiction, from a wide variety of genres (memoir, humor, pop culture, chick lit, mystery, literary fiction).

I was a junior buyer assigned to work on Hearst Books (now part of HarperCollins). I researched comparable and competitive titles for buying sessions, ran reports, maintained the title database, and placed weekly replenishment orders for the 7th largest US publisher (at that time.)