Be Careful of Scammers!

I have recently been informed that scammers/AI-generated scams are impersonating me. Please be careful if you receive an email purporting to be me! This particular scam claimed I was an editor “looking ahead to the next couple of seasonal lists” with Jericho Writers, an organization I do on occasion work with, and asked the intended victim if they had a manuscript they were looking to publish. Please be aware Jericho Writers is NOT a book publisher, and neither is Reedsy; these are platforms designed to help you improve as a writer and learn about book publishing, and importantly, you as the author must be the one to initiate contact with the editor, through their specific platforms. These emails are a common scam in the book publishing industry right now, as are AI-driven emails that flatter your published works and, in the ones I have received for Songs of My Selfie, offer to help boost sales.

I am not currently an acquiring editor for any book publisher or lit mag, nor am I a literary agent. If you are a writer I haven’t worked with, I will never ask you out of the blue for a manuscript. If you are a client of mine, I will not change the method of our communication. I will never ask you to wire transfer money or send me gift cards or to assign me rights to your project.

If you are interested in working with the real me, please send me a message via my contact form on this website or you can invite to me to offer on your Reedsy or Jericho Writers project. If you have received an email from “me” you’re unsure about, please feel free to reach out to me via this website.

Grammarist's Top Book Editors

I am so grateful to Candace Osmond at Grammarist for naming me one of the top book editors in the US! I love my work, and I love helping writers get to the heart of their story, and I am deeply honored by this distinction. If you’re looking for support with your manuscript, I would love to talk!

"Handbook for Demolition Cats" in South Carolina Review

I am over the moon to be included in the Fall 2021 issue of South Carolina Review! “Handbook for Demolition Cats” is one of my most gleefully absurd pieces and was a sheer joy to write, and I’m so grateful to the team at SCR for selecting it. “Handbook for Demolition Cats” is a companion piece to “What the River Takes,” published in Litro. Copies of South Carolina Review Volume 54.1 can be purchased on their website or at Barnes & Noble.

Jericho Writers

I’m proud to share that you can now find me as an editor on the UK-based Jericho Writers platform. Jericho Writers is “an online writing club with a difference,” offering writing courses, insightful articles, editing, and much more. I primarily offer manuscript assessments through Jericho Writers, but I am also happy to consider developmental editing, copy editing, proofreading, and other projects. Check out my profile on Jericho Writers!

If you’re interested in editing, you can also find me on Reedsy, or simply send me a message using my contact form!

Wendy Sherman Associates

I am absolutely over the moon to share that I am now represented by Nicki Richesin at Wendy Sherman Associates! Nicki is a dream agent, and I am so grateful for her passion and diligence and enthusiasm for my work. My novel, BRANMOOR, is a neo-Victorian coming-of-age story about family and loss and the changing way children consider their parents, and I so hope to be able to share Helene’s journey (and Nicholas and Valera’s antics) with you.

In the meantime, I am (gleefully) hard at work on a new project: a novel-in-stories about cats, architectural restoration, and abandonment. If you would like to read one of the stories from this project, head over to Litro for “What the River Takes.”