Editor Cassandra YA editor

Editor Cassandra YA editor – Editor

Specializing in YA-- experience in NA, adult crossovers, MG, rights reversions, and self publishing.

Overview

The complete Ravenclaw package, EDITOR CASSANDRA, earned her MA in creative writing with a concentration on novel writing from Newcastle University. She spent a few years as an agent intern before joining the staff for rights reversions and as a guide for self publishing. Her international perspective gives her a unique edge in the industry and she reads widely to stay abreast of the market. While YA is where her heart lives, she also has experience in NA and adult crossovers, as well as upper middle grade. She is thrilled each time projects go on to sell to publishers and top the NYTimes Bestseller lists. With a quick turnaround time and experience you can trust, your work will be transformed into a book you can afford to be proud of. She can be found in drinking tea and playing with her dog Mollie in Capac, Michigan, online at, on twitter @OnlyCassandra, and IG @thatwemightfly.

Cassandra does not take on manuscripts featuring vampires/werewolves, angels/demons, or non-fiction.
Services
Fiction
Action & Adventure Fantasy Historical Fiction Humor & Comedy Mashups Mystery & Crime Romance Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Young Adult
Non-Fiction
Inspirational
Languages
English (UK) English (US)
Certifications
  • Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England - MA Creative WritingNovel writing trackAwarded: 2008 - Merit Honors
  • Rochester College, Rochester Hills, MI - BA Professional Writing, minor in CommunicationAwarded: 2007 - Cum Laude
  • Interned for a top literary agent in NYC from 2009-2011.
  • A clean record on Preditors & Editors. (Top of the 'C' page) Note: some of the info there is a bit out of date.

Work experience

Self-employed

Jan, 2008 — Present

Freelancer specializing in YA edits, both developmental and copy. Also experience in NA, adult crossovers, and MG. Also experience in rights reversions and self publishing.

Portfolio

Skwiza: A Memoir

Gail Mathabane

This memoir tells the intimate story of what happens when a white American becomes fully immersed in a world that is totally foreign to her through the most intimate connection imaginable - a marriage that is both interracial and cross-cultural. When Gail, a w... read more
Owen was an average teenage boy before he took the pill; the one which gave him psychic powers he had never imagined were possible. At the party there was a raid, and now he has the attention of certain government officials. With the government investigating h... read more
When he was a boy, Siv McCaig came face-to-face with a monster. After a childhood lived in fear, he encountered it again.Siv just wants to work his trade as a blacksmith, play cards at the saloon, and watch the stars. But he'll never be at peace without answer... read more
The Stars Fell Sideways

Cassandra Marshall

Alison Arroway takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. She has to, or she won’t get paid. Alison is a stunt double for pampered teen actress Pomegranate and when the director takes the shoot to Portugal, Alison is anything but thrilled to be rooming with Pom. Bu... read more
Timothy Kleve is a seemingly ordinary 17 year old still reeling back from the death of his mother. When a deadly phenomenon that causes people to die from their dreams called the Vashmir Pandemic throws society into chaos, Tim is forced to fight for his life a... read more
Dragons Forever BOOK ONE - Born to be a Dragon Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup... This is what Lord Edric wants you to believe. He will do anything in his power to see that humans never come in contact w... read more
Off the coast of Harmony Harbor, beneath the ocean’s waves, a dark secret is about to unfold. Few know of its existence.Mykaela Whindom is rescued from the treacherous seas only to find her best friend didn’t survive the tragic accident. Later, she finds the b... read more
A Silver Ring

Nathan Carriker

Every soul has a Mission-but every life has its Fate. If the Army had just let Wes Hutchinson be a pilot, maybe things would have been different. He'd get to marry his English love, Melody. They might have had a son he could teach to fly. Perhaps after the war... read more
Spencer Quinn was left behind. He was the only witness. He didn’t know why the creature took his twin brother and not him. There were no signs of forced entry, no clues and nobody believed Spencer's story.To avoid the frenzy of media attention Spencer's mother... read more
"Demons and magic, shotguns and explosions - Great read!"--Steve Umstead, author of The Evan Gabriel Trilogy A man can run from his past ... but not his future. Symon Bryson lives in self-imposed exile until Monsignor DuBarry goes missing and not even the most... read more
Nineteen-year-old Keith Groenewald is an escaped experiment from Area Fifty-One. Harbored by a secret society, Veluz, Keith develops his telekinetic abilities, making him a key weapon for their covert missions. While working as part of an elite mercenary force... read more
The Grave Winner

Lindsey R. Loucks

Book 1 of a Spine-Chilling YA Paranormal Romance SeriesLeigh Baxton is terrified her mom will come back from the dead -- just like the prom queen did.While the town goes beehive over the news, Leigh bikes to the local cemetery and buries some of her mom's thin... read more
LAYERS (Stark #1)

Sigal Ehrlich

According to Hayley love is a subject of ridicule, a myth created by hopeless romantics.When Hayley makes a resolution to declare her loose lifestyle era R.I.P, it’s all good in theory…That is until she meets Daniel Stark, a well-respected, mid-thirties busine... read more
A Dark Secret...A Hidden Island...A Magic Storm...An Epic Journey Upon the High Seas!Over a year has passed since Jim Morgan outwitted the King of Thieves and escaped from London with his friends, Lacey and the Brothers Ratt. Now, at long last, Jim is ready to... read more
A gypsy curse… A shadow pirate…An ancient treasure…An adventure beyond mystery and magic!Eleven year-old Jim Morgan once had a home, a life of comfort, and a future full of promise. But all that changed the night his father was murdered. Now Jim is on the run ... read more
No Apologies

Sybil Bartel

Never apologizeHard-edged rocker Graham Allen has it all. He's flush with cash from playing bass in a band by night and restoring classic cars by day. And there are plenty of women willing to share his bed for a night, complication-free. Perfect, because if th... read more
Unstrung

Kendra C. Highley

Lexa Pate, seventeen-year-old thief extraordinaire, has burned a bridge or two in her life. You don’t make a career out of stealing other people’s property without making enemies.When a risky job goes from bad to worse, Lexa and her adopted family find themsel... read more
Retrace

Sigal Ehrlich

A former FBI agent.A Brazilian dancer. Two souls haunted by ghosts of their past.One looking for retribution, the other for atonement. Both seeking solace. A solitary existence is all they know, until fate brings them together. Mutual attraction leads to the p... read more
A mother’s near-obsessive devotion to her missing daughter threatens to destroy more than one family.Megan is the harried but happy stay-at-home mother of three little girls living in a small town. Her life implodes when her youngest daughter, Emma, disappears... read more
"Whoever said football and girls don't mix hasn't read Catching Jordan. I couldn't put it down!" ― Simone Elkeles, New York Times bestselling author of the Perfect Chemistry series ONE OF THE BOYSWhat girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in... read more
Darcy Bennet lives to be on the ice. When the other little girls were watching the Olympics and dreaming of figure-skating, she was dreaming of representing her country not with skates but with a broom.At seventeen, Darcy still has Olympic dreams, but she has ... read more
Now a Complete Series to binge read this fall. Olivia Black has a rare birth defect known as Psyche Sans Soma, or PSS. Instead of a right hand made of flesh and blood, she was born with a hand made of ethereal energy.How does Olivia handle being the girl with ... read more
After-life just got a lot more complicated Maggie is a Soul Collector. It’s her job to transport souls from the Living Realm to the After – but during a mission to New England to find a stolen soul, she ends up stuck in a teen mean girl’s body. Trapped, Maggie... read more
Book 2 in the Matt Archer series. **On sale for $0.99 through October 25th**When Matt Archer was fourteen, he discovered monsters are real. As if that wasn’t enough to go on for a few decades, Matt also found out that he’d been chosen to hunt those monsters--w... read more
What if everything came down to a single test? If your life was defined at seventeen, could you handle it? Could you accept your fate leaving the ones you love, or would you risk it all and stay? One test stands between Vanessa and Central. One chance to make ... read more
“There’s more to me than you know…”When Matt Archer’s sister, Mamie, said those words to him three years ago, he had no idea how prophetic they were, or what this would mean for his family.Now, he knows. And it changes everything, bringing the war right to Mat... read more

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