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about me & books

Welcome! I am a former acquisitions editor at a ‘Big Five’ publisher who is now an independent book editor based in Manhattan Beach, CA working with my clients to elevate their vision on projects of all kinds. You can visit my Publishers Marketplace page here.,

My most recent freelance client project to release was Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions from Amistad which Roxane Gay chose as her October pick of the Audacious Book Club and The New Yorker named one of their “The Best Books of 2022 So Far.” My next freelance client project to release is Sarah John’s forthcoming debut novel, The Sirens of Soleil City, on July 9th from Random House. Selected previous freelance projects include: Janie Chang’s The Library of Legends; Dragon Springs Road, and Three Souls; Leila Rafei’s Spring; Ehsaneh Sadr’s A Door Between Us; Stephanie Clifford’s Everybody Rise; Mindy Tarquini’s Hindsight; Susan Wands’ Magician and Fool; Elizabeth de Veer’s The Ocean in Winter; and Kathleen J. McInnis’ The Heart of War. Publisher clients I have worked with include: Blackstone Publishing; Granity Studios; and Open Road Integrated Media.

Before moving west to Los Angeles in 2010, I spent twelve years in New York City with HarperCollins Publishers where I was a Senior Editor acquiring primarily for William Morrow and Harper Perennial. Some of the titles that I acquired and published include at HarperCollins include: Daniel James Brown’s The Indifferent Stars Above and Under a Flaming Sky (reprint); Michael Zadoorian’s The Leisure Seeker; Willy Vlautin’s The Motel Life, Northline, and Lean on Pete; Marjorie Hart’s Summer at Tiffany; Sara James and Ginger Mauney’s The Best of Friends; Catherine Hanrahan’s Lost Girls and Love Hotels, Jennifer Sey’s Chalked Up; Marina Palmer’s Kiss and Tango; Lola Jaye’s By The Time You Read This; Maud Casey’s Genealogy; K.L. Cook’s The Girl from Charnelle; and Sarah Hall’s Daughters of the North and How to Paint a Dead Man, amongst others.

A 1997 graduate of Colgate University, I was a member of the annual faculty of the Colgate Writers’ Conference from 2006-2010 and guest faculty for the fall 2009 session of Colgate’s “Living Writers” course. I have also been guest faculty or a speaker at the following programs dedicated to writers: the SDSU Writers’ Conference; Writing Workshops LA: The Conference; the UC-Riverside/Palm Desert M.F.A. Program; USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program; the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference; the James River Writers’ Conference; the South Carolina Writers’ Conference; the Asian American Writers’ Workshop; the Surrey International Writers’ Conference; the Ohio State University Writers’ Conference; the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books, and Grub Street’s “The Muse and the Marketplace.”

My book projects–both past and present–mean everything to me. I am incredibly grateful to have spent the past twenty-five years working in the publishing world from New York City and Los Angeles.