Associate at a Manhattan literary agency with a passion for collaboration and a love of fiction. Always thoughtful, engaged, and optimistic.
I am an associate at a Manhattan literary agency with a passion for working closely and collaboratively with authors. I specialize in developmental/conceptual editing, line editing, and evaluating query letters and submissions.
In my current role, I edit for a wide range of authors in fiction and nonfiction. In the fiction space, I love to work with literary and upmarket fiction, historical fiction, book club, and short story collections. In the realm of nonfiction, I particularly enjoy editing memoir and essay collections. I also evaluate query letters and submissions of all genres. I began my publishing career at a large full-service literary agency and have also worked at a book discovery website as a Manager of Author Relations.
I'm friendly, compassionate, and candid, and I strive to get to know the authors I work with personally. I find it helps me better understand an author's needs and communication style, plus it sets us up for a trusting, open, and collaborative working relationship. The stronger the author/editor relationship, the better the book!
Projects I have worked on have gone on to be published by Penguin Random House, W.W. Norton, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Holt, Little, Brown, and more.
Bring me your weird, wild, worldly projects. I love working on books that surprise me, and I love picking the brilliant brains that created them. I aspire to make your book the best it can be, and to leave you feeling seen, understood, and empowered.
I read, evaluate, and provide insightful and appropriate developmental edits, structural edits, and copyedits to manuscripts to prepare them for sale and eventual publication. I write thorough, detailed editorial letters for clients and guide them through multiple rounds of revisions. I manage our submission inbox, evaluating hundreds of queries and determining whether or not to recommend them for representation. I also craft successful and effective submission letters and sales pitches for manuscripts and proposals.
As the Manager of Community and Author Relations, I acted as the main point of contact for authors and publishers who were interested in promoting their books, establishing an online presence, and reaching their readers. I developed the site's strategy for connecting with and supporting authors, both internally (i.e. site development) and externally.
Dennis-Benn, Nicole
Hartsuyker, Linnea
Hartsuyker, Linnea
Wilson, Kevin
Nesbit, TaraShea
Fox, Lauren
Solomon, Anna
Scharer, Whitney
Bucak, Ayse Papatya
McAllister, Tom
claire arbogast, February 2021
Jill B, February 2021
Libby Marshall, December 2020
James Schwartz, December 2020
Jami Witherspoon, November 2020
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Experienced commissioning editor, enthusiastic about literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Competitive rates and publishing advice.
London, United Kingdom
Editor who's worked with bestselling authors at Penguin Random House and Grove Atlantic on lit. fiction, crime, history, memoir, and more.
New York, NY, USA