Jean has been in the publishing industry for 37 years, including serving as an executive managing editor for Zondervan. Today, as an independent editor, Jean is engaged by both Christian publishing houses and individual authors. She offers substantive, line, and copy editing for fiction and nonfiction books. Several of her publisher clients request that she work directly with their authors, …
Jennifer Gott
Jennifer has worked in book publishing for 25 years, beginning at Multnomah Publishers in 1999, followed by many years of freelance editing in the Christian, general market, and academic spaces. Most recently, Jennifer served as VP/Publisher for the gift division at HarperCollins Christian Publishing. She has spent her career in nonfiction, fiction, and children’s books, focusing for many years on …
Jennifer Haney Stair
Jennifer has been helping authors make good books great for almost 30 years. Your work will be in the best possible hands with Jennifer, one of the industry’s most accomplished and trusted editors. Jennifer is proficient in all stages of the editorial process, including manuscript critique, developmental and substantive editing, and copy editing. Her additional experience in product development, project …
Jennifer Lonas
Jennifer is a quality-oriented editor, copy editor, and proofreader with more than 30 years of experience in the publishing field. Over the course of her career, Jennifer has skillfully guided hundreds of nonfiction and fiction books to publication. She has also collaborated on a variety of projects with academic and magazine publishers, including Focus on the Family. As a former in-house production editor …
Jennifer Moorman
Jennifer is a Nashville-based author and editor, specializing in trade nonfiction with a focus on inspirational and uplifting material, children’s books, four-color nonfiction (lifestyle, cookbooks, health/wellness, devotionals & daily readers). She also enjoys developmental editing and copy editing genre fiction. Working in publishing for nearly two decades and as a long-time senior editor for HarperCollins, Jennifer has coached dozens of …
Jocelyn Bailey
Jocelyn is a freelance editor who specializes in fiction, nonfiction, and academic projects. While working on her MA in English at Boston College, she began her first publishing internship at Beacon Press, where she was happy to be paid in books. After graduating, she joined the fiction division of Thomas Nelson Publishers (now part of HarperCollins). In 2015 she earned a …
Julie Breihan
Julie is an editor with over 25 years of experience in the publishing world. She specializes in line editing, substantive editing, and copyediting, but she also enjoys proofing on the side. She works on many genres, including novels, memoirs, children’s, devotionals, Christian living, biographies, humor, cookbooks, business, finance, politics. She loves it all, and she has found that working on …
Karli Jackson
Karli began her publishing career with the rights department at HarperCollins Christian Publishing before transitioning to the editorial team, where she nurtured relationships with authors and helped them shape and create their stories. Her editing credits include New York Times and USA Today bestsellers and award-winning authors such as Rachel Hauck, Lauren Denton, and Denise Hunter. She now works on …
Kelsey Mitchener
Kelsey is a New York Times–bestselling copy editor and proofreader who has been editing professionally since 2005. She specializes in all things nonfiction. Kelsey is a published and award-winning writer who now channels her author’s eye and understanding into re-visioning and attending to others’ writing. She’s considered an “A-list proofer” and go-to editor by many writers and publishing houses. She’s …
Kit Tosello
An award-winning editor and former managing editor for a Christian publisher, Kit has been editing for publishers and independent authors since 2009. She considers it a privilege to help both multi-published best-selling writers and first-time authors convey the message of their hearts clearly and in their unique voice. Kit brings editorial insight and creativity to projects ranging from book doctoring …