Overview
I am an editor with more than 15 years of experience at major New York publishing houses, where I acquired, edited, and developed award-winning, national bestselling, and New York Times bestselling titles in multiple formats and across a range of categories (with an emphasis on mystery novels, historical fiction, women’s fiction, and narrative nonfiction).
Services
Fiction
Action & Adventure
Cultural & Ethnic
Historical Fiction
Humor & Comedy
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Short Story
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Education & Reference
Entertainment
History
Travel
Writing & Publishing
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Work experience
THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP
Mar, 2006 —
Jul, 2015
(over 9 years)
• Acquired, edited, and developed bestselling, award-winning fiction and nonfiction projects in multiple formats and across a range of categories, including women’s fiction, mystery/thrillers, historical fiction, narrative nonfiction and true crime.
o Notable fiction titles include Ali Brandon’s New York Times bestselling Black Cat Bookshop mysteries; Sheila Connolly’s New York Times bestselling County Cork and Orchard Mystery series; Claire Donally’s New York Times bestselling Sunny & Shadow Mystery series; Naomi Hirahara’s Murder on Bamboo Lane (T. Jefferson Parker Winner for Best Mystery); Joanna Campbell Slan’s Death of a Schoolgirl (2013 Daphne du Maurier Award); Judith Rock’s The Rhetoric of Death (Barry Award Nominee for Best Mystery); national bestselling and Barry-Award winner E.J. Copperman’s Haunted Guesthouse mysteries; and NYT bestselling author CJ Lyons’s Angel of Mercy novels.
o Notable nonfiction titles include Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie’s Notes on a Killing (NH Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Nonfiction Finalist); Dan Morse’s The Yoga Store Murder, which Michael Connelly called “one of the best written and researched true crime books I’ve read in quite a while”; and Kevin Grange’s memoir Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic which Publishers Weekly praised as “both exciting and terrifying” and Richard H. Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States declared, “You will be inspired.”
• Oversaw extensive backlist and managed reprints (both as acquisitions and inhouse), including Kate Jacobs’s New York Times bestselling Friday Night Knitting Club series (The Friday Night Knitting Club paperback was on the NYT list for an entire year, including two weeks at #1); Steve Lopez’s The Soloist (a nationwide bestseller and feature film starring Robert Downey Jr); Victor Wooten’s The Music Lesson (originally self-published, and now in its 15th printing); A. Scott Berg’s Max Perkins, Editor of Genius and Saroo Brierley’s A Long Way Home (both forthcoming as feature films in the fall of 2015, under the titles ‘Genius’ and ‘Lion’ respectively).
BANTAM DELL PUBLISHING GROUP
Mar, 2000 —
Mar, 2006
(about 6 years)
• Acquired and edited both nonfiction (including several production-heavy projects) and fiction titles, mainly literary fiction and mystery/suspense, notably Naomi Hirahara’s Snakeskin Shamisen (2007 Edgar Award Winner for Best Paperback Original) and Sean Doolittle’s The Cleanup (2007 Barry Award winner, Anthony Award finalist, Nebraska Book Award Honoree, and currently in development as a feature film).
• Handled revising and reissuing editions among a backlist of approximately fifty titles, including the updated and revised editions of Syd Field’s classic titles, most notably Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting and The Screenwriter’s Workbook.
• Assisted Senior Editor with editorial and administrative needs. Worked closely with authors including Tom Robbins, Rita Mae Brown, Perri O’Shaughnessy, Susan Shapiro, and Elmore Leonard.
Portfolio
Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn “Button” Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town–and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other.Much to her mother’s dismay, Button... read more
When Karen Foster was told that something had happened to her eighteen-year-old daughter, Bonnie Craig, she knew what it meant. The Alaska State Troopers investigating the scene ruled it a hiking accident, but for Karen, the pieces didn’t add up. Bonnie would ... read more
In national bestselling author Hannah Reed’s latest Scottish Highlands mystery, aspiring romance novelist Eden Elliott discovers the landscape isn’t the only thing that’s dramatic when a local woman is done in...It’s early September in Glenkillen, Scotland, wh... read more
From the author of The Vintage Teacup Club The first rule of afternoon tea: never rush. Take time to savor it. Just like friendship…The Seafront Tearoom is an insider secret in small-town Scarborough – a beach-front haven with the best tea and cakes in town – ... read more
From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script.. Here are easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements e... read more
Meet Jonathan Quinn: a freelance operative with a take-no-prisoners style and the heart of a loner. His job? Professional “cleaner.” Nothing too violent, just disposing of bodies, doing a little cleanup if necessary. But in Brett Battles’s electrifying debut n... read more
Matthew Worth is a mess. Somewhere between a good cop and a bad screwup, he botched a marriage and a career. His fellow officers think he’s a joke. His commanders are tired of cutting him breaks. Even his wife has left him for a flashy homicide detective. Bust... read more
Their friendship would kill her… Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to ... read more
The full true story of the lululemon murder and what really happened to Jayna Murray and Brittany Norwood--photos included.It was a crime that shocked the country. On March 12, 2011, two young saleswomen were found brutally attacked inside a lululemon athletic... read more
In her classic tale, Charlotte Brontë introduced readers to the strong-willed and intelligent Jane Eyre. Picking up where Brontë left off, Jane’s life has settled into a comfortable pattern: She and her beloved Edward Rochester are married and have an infant s... read more
In this Sunny & Shadow Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Last Licks, a fat-cat wedding is making waves in Kittery Harbor, Maine. Political heiress Priscilla Kingsbury is about to marry Carson de Kruk, son of business mogul Augustus de Kruk,... read more
From her Brooklyn bookstore, Darla Pettistone not only sells mysteries, but solves them, aided by her big-boned black cat, Hamlet—who has suddenly pounced into the spotlight after unleashing his fists of furry… After a video of Darla and Hamlet performing at a... read more
BEETLE MANIA While orchard owner Meg Corey dreads the labor of manual irrigation to stave off a drought, her boyfriend, Seth, couldn’t be more excited about doing historic renovation on one of Granford’s oldest houses. Tagging along as he picks up supplies is ... read more
Pub owner Maura Donovan may have Irish kin, but she doesn’t seem to have the luck of the Irish. Who could have foreseen that bringing live music back to Sullivan’s Pub would lead to a dead musician? Summer is ending in County Cork, Ireland, and with it the tou... read more
Just when she thought she’d seen everything… Detective Lieutenant Anita McElone is one of Harbor Haven’s finest. She’s also a hard-boiled ghost skeptic. So when she shows up on the doorstep of Alison Kerby’s Haunted Guesthouse to ask for supernatural help in s... read more
A true account of going through UCLA’s famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program—and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles.Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks—tha... read more
From the New York Times bestselling author of Blind Faith comes the first book in the Angels of Mercy series—a gripping behind-the-scenes drama of four women who face life and death every day… July 1st—Transition Day. The most dangerous day of the year. The da... read more
From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara’s acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction’s most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas more excited tha... read more
Trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle…Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it’s still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a form... read more
An "amazing"* debut historical novel (*Ariana Franklin, national betselling author of Grave Goods) Paris, 1686: When The Bishop of Marseilles discovers that his young cousin Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been helping heretics esca... read more
From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes The Music Lesson, the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part... read more
