Overview
I've worked with major publishing houses as an acquiring editor, copy editor, and developmental editor, and have taught workshops with RWA, Writers' Digest, the Romantic Times Convention, the Idaho Writers' Guild, YA Thriller Con, and more.
Books I have edited include The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers, Kirkus star recipients Island of Exiles by Erica Cameron and Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz, USA Today bestsellers No Kissing Allowed by Melissa West and Knocked-Up Cinderella by Julie Hammerle, and Nebraska Book Award winner The November Girl by Lydia Kang, as well as a Kirkus Indie Book of the Month, 2 Junior Library Guild selections, a Goodreads Best Book of the Month, a Locus Magazine Best Book of 2017, and an A-Grade recipient from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.
Services
Fiction
Languages
Awards
- Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Best YA Novel nominee
- Writers's Digest Website of the Week Award
Work experience
Page Street Kids-Macmillan
YA futuristic thriller released Nov 23, 2021.
Working Partners
I work for a book packaging company at an entertainment group, concepting and workshopping story concepts, plots, and hooks, and joining them together to make a riveting, marketable story with heart and imagination that just needs the right voice to bring it alive. This gives me daily experience building novels from the group up, and a unique eye for plot solutions and maximizing your story potential. I'm analyzing story elements daily, and it's a dream job.
Breakthrough Writers' Boot Camp
• Writing coaching and mentoring for career authors through platform building, craft development, and career planning.
• Community building and moderating in a Slack team.
• Teaching through webinars, editing on live video, career consultations, prose analyses, and artistic vision development.
• Project development from the premise through final stages on WIPs.
Lerner Publishing Group
Copyediting and proofreading YA and MG manuscripts for Carolrhoda Lab, Carolrhoda Books, and other imprints using CMOS.
Simon Pulse
How We Fall, a young adult suspense novel released in hardcover. Positive reviews from Kirkus, SLJ, VOYA, Booklist, and The Horn Book Guide. Nominated for Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Best YA novel award.
Entangled Publishing
• Acquiring and editing approximately 8-12 manuscripts per year in adult romance, women’s fiction, and all YA genres.
• Writing cover and catalog copy and marketing materials, providing concepts for cover art creation.
• Author support, project development with authors for work on proposal
• Development and talent sourcing for special projects pre-contract
• Bringing in new authors through pitch contests and conferences, developing relationships with agents, speaking on panels/presenting at RWA, Romantic Times Convention, Pikes Peak Writers, Midwest Writers, and more
• Management of a team of 6-10 interns and assistant editors.
Month9Books
• Developmental editing of adult romance, YA, and new adult manuscripts.
• Overseeing manuscripts through copy edits and proofreading, input on cover copy and cover design.
Self-employed
• Editing 350+ manuscripts and submission packages for clients of Dystel, Goderich and Bourret, The Bent Agency, New Leaf Literary, and other established authors.
• Teaching summer writing workshops for teen and adult writers at Sioux Center Public Library and Northwestern College.
• Creating and executing the Fiction Writers’ Boot Camp, a weekend writing conference that drew 35 writers from a 4-state area, featuring 20 lectures, workshops, discussion panels, and networking sessions from New York Times bestselling authors Tosca Lee and Nicole Baart, myself, and library director Becky Bilby.
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