Overview
During my six years as Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster/Crimson Romance, I edited well over 200 projects—and have glowing testimonials from my authors! I specialize in romance, chick lit/women's fiction, thriller, and children's literature (picture books all the way up through young adult). Check out my portfolio for a sampling of projects I've worked on.
I'm also the author of the contemporary YA novels Follow Your Arrow, And She Was, What You Left Behind, The Summer I Wasn't Me, and My Life After Now, as well as the co-author of the picture book I'm Not a Girl.
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Certifications
- MFA in Creative Writing
Work experience
Crazy Maple Studio
I am currently acquiring romance (of all sub-genres), thriller, suspense, mystery, horror, and sci-fi for the wildly popular serialization apps KISS and Scream.
Self-employed
Do you have a romance, women’s fiction/chick lit, young adult, or middle grade novel you’re seeking a professional editor for? I’m an experienced developmental editor with over 200 romance novels—and dozens more young adult novels and children’s books—under my belt. My goal is to help you bring your book to that next level—whether it be via big picture notes, micro-level suggestions, or both.
In addition to providing you with an editorial letter outlining my overall thoughts, I tend to mark up manuscripts pretty heavily with line edits, light copy edits, and in-margin questions. And of course I will be sure to point out what's already working in your manuscript, and what you're doing well!
If this all sounds good to you, please contact me! I would love to talk with you about your project.
Simon & Schuster/Crimson Romance
As Senior Editor of a romance imprint that required all hands on deck in order to run smoothly, I was involved in every aspect of the publishing process, including but not limited to acquisitions, developmental editing of contracted manuscripts, spearheading the LGBTQ+ category, IP project development, conference representation, copyediting and proofreading, working closely with the sales and publicity teams, and much more. In my years at Crimson Romance, I was the developmental editor on over 200 manuscripts, including some USA Today bestsellers. I was also integral in the ground-floor development process of SNOW FALLING, the Jane the Virgin tie-in novel.
I am an advocate for diversity of all kinds, and acquired many novels and series from authors of color, about characters of color, leading to Crimson Romance being named the number one publisher of diverse romance in The Ripped Bodice's 2017 Diversity Study (by a rather large margin!), an accomplishment I am incredibly proud of.
Scholastic, Macmillan, Sourcebooks
I am a young adult author, with five published contemporary standalone novels, the most recent of which is FOLLOW YOUR ARROW. My debut children's picture book, I'M NOT A GIRL, which I co-authored with twelve-year-old transgender activist Maddox Lyons, is out now from Macmillan. I do several school visits each year with the Lambda Literary LGBTQ+ Writers in Schools program, and have a firm grasp on what teens today are looking for in the books they pick up.
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