Olivia Roberts – Editor

I am an editor at Chronicle Books, a publishing company based in the Bay Area. I tend to gravitate towards narrative nonfiction, humor (visual and essay collections), music, sex, and pet publishing, but am open to all sorts of projects. I also lead our calendar program. I'm thoughtful, thorough, collaborative, easygoing, and love a good bit. I have been in the business for over seven years and would love to help you make your dream book!

I specialize in a number of areas and am usually tasked with a variety of roles from acquiring editor to project manager, developmental editor to proofreader. I'm prepared to help you with whatever you need (as it relates to my specialties, of course) and I can be as involved as you'd like. So whether it's a thorough developmental edit, a line edit, or even just being the person you talk things through with, I'm here for you!

I work on a variety of subject matter and love all of my projects dearly! Some of my recent projects include:

-NEGATIVES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE OF EMO (1996-2006) by Amy Fleisher Madden, the founder of Fiddler Records, home to Dashboard Confessional, New Found Glory, and more. A moving photographic time capsule of the second and third waves of emo, featuring a foreword by Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional and revealing essays from Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Norman Brannon (Texas Is the Reason), Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids), Jesse Johnson (Motion City Soundtrack), Andrew McMahon (Something Corporate), and Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes).

-MUSEUM BUMS: A CHEEKY LOOK AT BUTTS IN ART by heritage scholars and art educators Mark Small and Jack Shoulders, the pair behind the viral Twitter and Instagram accounts @MuseumBums. A humorous history book that takes you on a whirlwind tour of the finest rear ends in museums around the world.

-I'M MORE DATEABLE THAN A PLATE OF REFRIED BEANS by comedian Ginny Hogan, a collection of humor observations about modern dating. Received praise from Karen Chee, Whitney Cummings, Dana Schwartz, Hannah Einbinder, Jon Cryer, Vulture, and more.

-LOOK I BOUGHT PLANTS by comedians Eva Victor and Taylor Garron, a hilarious poetry collection that distills the millennial experience into 200 cheeky poems. Won a 2021 Pubwest Book Design Award.

Let's make a book. Contact me today!