Dori Harrell – Editor

Every year I have multiple authors on the major awards list!

2025 Awards

Christy Award finalist!: Walking on Hidden Wings (Congrats Rachel McDaniel!)

Indie Author Network winner: Turning Toward Eden (Congrats to Cate Touryan!)

Golden Scroll: Coal Black Lies (2nd)! Congrats to Cindy Sproles!

Selah Awards

-Coal Black Lies (novel)—first! Congrats to Cindy Sproles

-Hello in There (short story)—first! Congrats to Sam Blumenthal

-Long Black Veil (short story)—second! Congrats to Sam Blumenthal

-Bible Companion Series, Job (Bible study)—third! Congrats to Karen Westbrook

-Beloved Outcast (memoir)! Congrats to Cherie Denna

2024 Awards

-Christy Award, Star of Wonder—congrats to Crystal Caudill!

-Caleb Award, Heart in the Clouds—congrats to Jennifer Mistmorgan!

-Christian Market Book Awards, Book of the Year, Beloved Outcast—congrats to Cherie Denna!

-Regal Summit Book Award, Every Night Has a Dawn—congrats to Rachel Valencourt!

-Christian Book Awards (Gold), Two Rivers—congrats to Mike Henry!

2023 Award Winners (first place):

-Carol Awards, The Songs That Could Have Been—congrats to Amanda Wen!

-Christy Awards, When Stone Wings Fly—congrats to Karen Barnett!)

-Selah Awards: The Songs That Could Have Been (Congrats to Amanda Wen!) Circle of Vengeance (Congrats to Ramona Richards!)

-Firebird Book Awards: Follow Me, Friend—congrats to Cheryl Eriksen! This book also won the Writer's Digest 2022 Self-Published Book Awards. Go Cheryl!

Book editing is the most glamorous career in the world! (And eating red licorice while editing is even better ...) I edit full time for traditional publishers—including Kregel Publications and Our Daily Bread—and indie authors, and I served as managing editor of a Christian hybrid press for nearly five years, in which I oversaw a team of thirty-plus editors and typesetters. With more than 400 titles under my belt, I offer coaching, developmental editing, line editing, and copyediting. My authors, including independent ones, final in the major awards, and several books have gone on to win awards and/or become USA Today and Amazon bestsellers. A multiple-award-winning writer (and USA Today best-selling author) with more than a thousand published articles, I speak at writers' and editors' conferences nationwide. I also evaluate manuscripts for Kregel, plus I serve on the board of the Northwest Christian Writers Association, through which I offer multiple workshops.

I'm a hands-on editor, and my developmental edits cover the main elements of fiction (character, plot, pacing, structure, POV, theme, and voice) and anything else worth noting, and will have comments throughout the margin. With nonfiction, I cover author's message, author's goals, pacing, voice, and structure and format. With line editing and copyediting, I not only catch typos and other errors, but I apply the industry style guides (Chicago Manual of Style) so that your book reads as smoothly as any on a bookstore shelf. I take on a small number of new clients every year, and I'm particularly interested in working with authors who've studied their craft.

I graduated from the University of Washington with a double major in journalism and political science, and I'm a huge Seahawks fan—go Hawks! I look forward to chatting with you about your baby!