Fiora Elbers-Tibbitts – Editor

I am a publishing professional with 6+ years of experience reading and editing mostly fiction. I have worked in editorial at major publishers, as well as at Book of the Month, the country's largest consumer book club. My first love is literary fiction, but through my time at both Atria Books and BOTM I have developed a deep appreciation for and enjoyment of more commercial women's fiction and domestic thrillers.

Throughout my career I have worked with New York Times bestselling authors such as Lisa Jewell, Rebecca Serle, Jamie Ford, and Jennifer Weiner, and at BOTM I have championed the careers of such debut authors as Monica Heisey, Amita Parikh, Amy Lin, and Patric Gagne.

As an editor I like to start with big-picture thinking, asking authors questions about the themes they are grappling with, the shape of their stories, characters' arcs and how their development reflects what the author is trying to say with their book. I have a keen eye for repetition and where novels can be streamlined—what a reader will be able to intuit vs. the smaller emotional details that will bring a character or world to life. Even for less plot-driven literary fiction, I am adamant that every paragraph move the story forward or otherwise explicitly enhance a story, and I love helping authors get to the heart of their work.