Hallie S – Editor

My editing experience covers a range of genres, including contemporary literary fiction, science fiction, thriller, and historical fiction. I'm experienced at both line-by-line and macro-level developmental editing, and as someone who read queries daily for years, I'm well-equipped to help craft a polished and eye-catching pitch.

I strive for both compassion and radical honesty in my editing projects, and I welcome pushback and discussion. I believe the best ideas come from teamwork. I'd love to help you work through everything from untangling a tough plot hole to resolving a character arc, and I'm adept at identifying patterns and structures to build a stronger narrative.

My editing strategy is built on finding the story you want to tell and figuring out how best to bring that narrative to readers. What are the prevailing emotions and themes of the work? Do you want your audience to laugh or cry or both? What kind of experience do you want to bring your readers? I'd love to work together to answer these questions and more.

An academic at heart, I will be an especially good fit for anything with intense world building. I find scholarship about fairy tales and cultural myths like King Arthur fascinating, and I love working with alternate or fantastical histories. I am also super interested in works that center a lot of science and math--I work on biology books in my day job and studied physics and math in college, so I love getting to engage with books that have an intense science component.

That said, I love all fiction and have worked professionally on works across the commercial-literary spectrum. My favorite books are those that treat the extraordinary as ordinary or the ordinary as extraordinary. No project is too weird or too niche--if you're passionate about it, I believe your readers will be too!