Laura Ross – Editor

I am a published author, bestselling editor, and publishing consultant with more than thirty years’ experience in New York publishing. I was the Editorial Director at Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers and Theatre Communications Group; Vice President/Director of Marketing at Pocket Books; Director of Advertising and Promotion at Simon & Schuster and Penguin Books; and the co-proprietor of a book-packaging firm, Cognoscenti Books. In 2008, I turned full-time to independent editorial work and have since edited more than 100 works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's books. I have ghostwritten a variety of memoirs and works of narrative nonfiction for clients including HarperCollins, Sterling, Quayside, and Stonesong Press. My attributed works include a series of annotated classics, a wellness book, and several works of history—most recently, Traveling the Silk Road, Theodore Roosevelt: A Passion to Lead (both Sterling Publishing), and The Art of Bob Mackie (Simon & Schuster).