My career began immediately after college with a brief internship at a publishing company that morphed into a fourteen-year foundational season.

I started my journey in the world of book publishing by working as a catchall intern for multiple nonfiction departments at Thomas Nelson in Nashville, Tennessee. From printing and manually binding hundreds of manuscripts for publicity mailings to writing press releases and comparing proofreader marks, sitting in on meetings and ordering lunches, I did it all. Two years later I had miraculously landed my dream job: editorial assistant with the fiction team.

I worked hard. So hard. HarperCollins bought Thomas Nelson in 2012, then the longtime fiction publisher left and a new one joined our team, internal systems changed, authors were acquired, books published, conferences attended, and I slowly rose through the ranks to associate editor then editor and finally senior editor. I learned about contracts and metadata, contributed to titling and acquisitions meetings, vetted and hired proofreaders, managed schedules and spreadsheets, and dealt with rights reversions. I worked with some lovely people—colleagues and authors and freelancers. I studied the line edits of two amazing freelance editors and read writing craft books and eventually began performing in-house line edits. And fell in love with the process of line editing and helping authors polish and strengthen their stories.

In order to do more of what I love, I decided to resign from corporate publishing in April 2023 and pursue a career as a freelance editor. And now, here I am.