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You may request any editor. If they’re unavailable, another editor will be assigned based on your project’s genre and needs.
Along with working nearly every desk in the industry, Hope Bolinger has had 20+ books published and more than 2,000 bylines.
She has worked as a literary agent, publisher, and edited the works of 500+ authors.
Hope is known for her encouraging and helpful feedback. She enjoys editing almost everything—but has a very soft spot for Christian fiction, middle grade, young adult, and romance.
My name is Sam, and I am an editor and fiction writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I’ve been a fiction editor and writing tutor in academic and professional contexts for over eight years. I have edited many different types of fiction—from children’s literature and short stories to literary novels and romance novels.
As an editor, I sincerely enjoy helping others bring their projects to life, whether that means helping a writer improve their manuscript on the sentence level or providing feedback on their larger vision for the book. I see a writer’s overall growth as something that’s just as important to work on as their current project. As a fiction writer myself, I grew the most when I had a mentor who could both help me learn craft techniques and help me discover my own voice, and that’s what I aim to provide to anyone who works with me.
A little bit about me—I grew up in North River, New York, a hamlet located in the southern region of the Adirondack park. I earned my MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho in 2018. My short stories have appeared in or are forthcoming from Bennington Review, Terrain.org, Fence, and Smokelong Quarterly.
My writing has also been supported by residencies and grants from Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, the Idaho Commission on the Arts, the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency, Community of Writers, and Marble House Project.
Aside from my interests in fiction and editing, I cohost a podcast called WorkWhile with the poet Stacy Boe Miller about balancing writing and working full-time. I also occasionally moonlight as a whitewater raft guide on the Hudson River Gorge and raft completely for fun on the Salmon River with friends in Idaho.
Joel Fishbane is an award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction, theatre, and film. For more than a decade, he has worked directly with screenwriters, playwrights, and novelists to help them develop their work.
A working writer himself, Joel has published 100+ works of short fiction and non-fiction, while his novel “The Thunder of Giants” was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2015.
Joel has a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and his screenplays and plays have been honored by the BBC International Radio Playwriting Contest, the New York International Screenplay Awards, the Outstanding Screenplay Awards, the Fratti-Newman Political Playwriting Contest, and the Toronto Fringe New Play Contest.
Joel is happy reading a wide variety of genres and styles, especially literary fiction, mystery, US history, theatre, biography, politics, sci-fi / fantasy, and rom-coms.
