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FIND THE BEST EDITORIAL PARTNER FOR YOU

While I’d love to work with you, I have limited availability and might not be the best fit. Here are a few other editors I know, love, and wholeheartedly endorse.

ALEX ABRAHAM

Alex Abraham is a friend and editor who graduated alongside me at VCFA and worked with renowned YA author Aidan Thomas. They wouldn’t tell you this, but they won lots of awards at VCFA, and are a kickass writer in their own right.

HANNAH MORGAN TEACHOUT

Hannah is a literary assistant at Folio Literary Management and an overall major asset for writers who need help sharpening their stories and query packets. Ever heard of Mai Corland’s Five Broken Blades? Yeah. Hannah helped with that. I recommend her for anyone who’s looking at writing for adults or is seeking publishing industry insights.

JESSE WEINER

Jesse Weiner is who I exchange work with on a monthly basis. She provides supportive, incisive, and enthusiastic feedback. Beyond that, Jesse is an absolute hub of resources like places to publish, craft books, and where to teach classes on writing and so much more. Jesse is also the head of Inksational Editorial, so you can check out the editors listed there, too!

STATEMENT OF ETHICS (Section 8 of AALA Canon of Ethics)

While my experience working at a Literary Agency does mean I’ve read many queries and helped edit manuscripts, it DOES NOT MEAN that working with me guarantees representation from anyone at The Tobias Literary Agency or elsewhere. Please review the full statement of ethics from the AALA Canon of Ethics (copied below) to understand my role as an employee of an agency and freelance editor.

8. A) The Association believes that the practice of literary agents charging clients or potential clients for reading and evaluating literary works (including query letters, outlines, proposals, and partial or complete manuscripts) is subject to serious abuse that reflects adversely on our profession. Members should be primarily engaged in selling or supporting the selling of rights and services on behalf of their clients, i.e. members should not be primarily pursing freelance editorial work and misrepresenting themselves as literary agents or support staff of a literary agency. Members may not charge any reading fees for evaluating work for possible representation. However, members may provide editorial services in exchange for a fee to authors who are not clients, provided members adhere to the following provisions: I) Members who render such services must make clear to the author in writing in advance that the rendering of such services does not indicate or imply that the member will represent the author as a literary agent and must provide to the author at the outset a copy of this Paragraph (8A-8B) of the AALA Canon of Ethics; and II) if during or after the rendering of such services the member agrees to represent the author, the member must then return in full all payments received for such services prior to submitting the work and waive any further payments for such services for that author; and III) to help prevent confusion, abuse, and to further separate paid editorial services from literary representation, at no time may members respond to an author who approaches them only for literary representation by instead suggesting or directing the author to pay for editorial services by the member or by anyone else financially associated with the member or member’s agency. Members must provide paid editorial services only to authors who have approached them directly for such services. B) Literary representation of any author must not be contingent upon the author engaging any such paid editorial services, nor shall a member retroactively charge for editorial services in the event a client’s project is not sold. For avoidance of doubt, the intent of this clause is to allow members flexibility and independence in their payment structures while avoiding the conflict of interest that may arise from members making a profit on top of commission from the sale of both their client’s works and separate paid services rendered to that client. C) The foregoing provisions shall not apply where a member provides services with respect to a non-client’s work if all of the following conditions apply: I) any payment therefor is made directly to a charity, as part of a fundraising effort for a third party, or to an established educational institution; II) the member shall personally create the evaluation and provide it within a reasonable time; III) the member does not in any way benefit financially from the activity; and IV) the member conducts the activity in an honorable way fully consistent with the AALA Canon of Ethics. For purposes of clarification, payments received by members for teaching classes or from writers’ conferences, whether virtual or in-person, which may include payments that specifically apply to such evaluations, shall not be a violation of this paragraph.