My Background
I am a professional book editor with 10 years’ experience working as an acquisitions and development editor at New York City publishing houses. After graduating from Harvard College, I began my career at St. Martin’s Press, where I worked on primarily women’s fiction and YA, including with New York Times bestselling authors Tatiana de Rosnay, P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast, and Erica Spindler. After 2 years, I moved in-house to Thomas Dunne Books/Minotaur where I was privileged to work with New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar Award winning author John Hart, as well as a wide variety of other talented authors, including Thomas Christopher Greene, Judith Flanders, G. M. Malliet, Jane Maas, Kitty Kelley, Paula Brackston, Donna Andrews, and many more. Most recently, I worked as senior acquisitions editor at the indie crime fiction publisher Crooked Lane Books, where I acquired (among others) titles from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower, critically acclaimed author Nicola Upson, as well as developed series concepts and first-book story bibles for a number of new crime series.
My Mission
I came to publishing because I love to read good stories, and after all this time, my favorite part of the job remains working with an author to bring out the very best version of his or her work. After months if not years laboring over a novel, it can be difficult to step back and see the forest for the trees. It’s my goal to help trim back the overgrown bits while also strengthening the trellis of your prose by providing feedback that will make you a stronger writer.
My Areas of Expertise
Mysteries and thrillers; women’s fiction; historical fiction; YA
