Molly Sackler – Editor

I’m a sensitive, deft developmental editor with years of experience in NYC trade and educational publishing (Doubleday, Dutton, Pearson). I'm also a writer myself, most recently published in Vanity Fair.A recovered academic (ABD in English literature), I taught writing at New York University for several years. At Doubleday, I worked on a mystery imprint (R.I.P. dear “Crime Club”) which published 36 books a year. At Pearson, I was a developmental editor on textbooks for college-level ELL readers. Now that I’m a freelance editor, my work runs the gamut. I recently helped a new author get her first book — a historical romance — published. I also excel at making complex material — law for instance — clear and concise for lay people. I’m also great at coming up with titles and writing copy for promotional purposes or queries.While I take my work very seriously, I don’t take myself too seriously. When my child was 4, she said to me: “On your tombstone it should say: “Let it be known that she amused her daughter.’” Having recently moved to Chicago, I jumped into writing sketch comedy and am a newly minted graduate of the Second City Writing Program.I really enjoy the partnership between writer and editor. Whether you are writing a mystery novel, a scholarly text, or your memoir I will work with you to make your voice clear and strong; and your book a work of staggering genius. As an editor my credo is: “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” - Benjamin Disraeli