Overview
Writing, editing, ghosting, coaching for two decades: literary and genre Fiction, varied Non-fiction, Memoir, Young Adult.
Publishing and media consulting.
In addition to my infinite appreciation for words themselves, my passion is to help writers create the best possible books before approaching the marketplace.
Depending on circumstances, I provide behind-the-scenes direction and promote connections between clients and literary agencies. In some instances I work with clients as they approach independent publishing.
As an editor in a top editing network, I enjoy an international clientele.
Specialties: My work, as well as the work of my clients, has received critical acclaim. Of my editing projects, two mysteries became New York Times Bestsellers, another won First Novel Finalist from the International Thrillers Awards. Nearly 20 published books follow.
Most recently, several memoirs have topped my editing list. Whether a work is "real" or "imagined," the same stuff of storytelling applies.
Publishing and media consulting.
In addition to my infinite appreciation for words themselves, my passion is to help writers create the best possible books before approaching the marketplace.
Depending on circumstances, I provide behind-the-scenes direction and promote connections between clients and literary agencies. In some instances I work with clients as they approach independent publishing.
As an editor in a top editing network, I enjoy an international clientele.
Specialties: My work, as well as the work of my clients, has received critical acclaim. Of my editing projects, two mysteries became New York Times Bestsellers, another won First Novel Finalist from the International Thrillers Awards. Nearly 20 published books follow.
Most recently, several memoirs have topped my editing list. Whether a work is "real" or "imagined," the same stuff of storytelling applies.
Services
Work experience
Donovan Edits
Dec, 1988 —
Present
Writer and Editor/Publishing and Media Consultant
Donovan Edits
1989 – Present
Senior Editor
1stdibs.com
January 2008 – July 2008 (7 months)
Consulting Editor
Bridge Works Publishing
1998 – 2003 (5 years)
Portfolio
Take a look at your hand. Did you know that it tells the unique and true story of your life? Or that you can actually influence and change the lines on your hand? Believe it. There are many maps to which we may turn to gain self-awareness and achieve greater h... read more
She’s a late night radio host who speaks your desires out loud. He’s a trumpet player who longs for what he left behind. She can’t see you. He can’t hear you. Maybe they belong together.“It’s a beautiful thing when a lover takes your hand, a thrill when he par... read more
The 35 million fans of TV's Red Shoe Diaries want more... Shatter the limits of erotic entertainment once again in this sensual quartet of tales inspired by the hit series-stories of men and women letting go and loving it. ...and we're giving it to them. In Ju... read more
Four erotic tales about men and women letting go-and loving it. In The Art of Loneliness, a late-night radio host spins erotic tales for her listeners. But on this night she's not alone. Someone in the dark has a tale for her. In Forbidden Zone, a woman invent... read more
Three erotic tales inspired by the hot, hit Showtime series. A new volume of hot fiction inspired by the man who delivered the erotic classics 9 1/2 Weeks, Two Moon Junction, and Wild Orchid Zalman King's sensational and groundbreaking Red Shoe Diaries has ele... read more
THE 20 MILLION FANS OF TV's RED SHOE DIARIES ARE INSATIABLE... And so, especially for them--whether men, women, or couples-comes this hot anthology of stories inspired by the wildly popular and groundbreaking cable series: The Psychiatrist is a woman intrigued... read more
The 40th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking teen classic When the grandmother who raised him dies, Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old boy, must move to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Between alcohol-infused lectures about her self-sacrifi... read more
The emptiness of suburban life seems fated to Virginia Dunn—commonly known as V. It’s spring, and the Dairy Barn, the stubborn bicuspids of her sister, the Neanderthal indifference of her brother, and her mother’s bottle of scotch remain the same. Then Lucky, ... read more
Sometimes questions have no answers. Fifteen-year old Virginia Dunn finds that out after her dog is run over, her dad is diagnosed with a mysterious illness, and her mom's drinking worsens. The people she has known forever are sudden strangers. Into this myste... read more
