About Stephanie Kelly
I have over ten years of experience working on fiction and nonfiction as an editor at a major publishing house. From 2011 to 2021, I was a member of the editorial department at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and beginning in 2017, I began acquiring and editing for the Plume list as well as the Dutton list. My authors at Dutton and Plume included New York Times bestsellers Tami Hoag, Fiona Davis, Asha Lemmie, Hannah Shaw, and Eric Jerome Dickey; international bestseller R. H. Herron; Claire Heywood, Elizabeth L. Cline, Laura Maylene Walter, Olivia Kiernan, Amy Blackstone, and T. Marie Vandelly, among others.
I founded Stephanie Kelly Editorial in 2021 in order to spend as much time as possible doing my favorite part of the job: working directly with authors on their manuscripts. As a writer myself, I know well all of the time, energy, and passion that goes into a project, and love collaborating with writers to ensure that your manuscript is as strong and polished as possible. I am particularly eager to work with writers of thrillers, suspense, historical fiction, women’s fiction, and young adult fiction, but if you’ve written a short story/short story collection, book in another genre, or a nonfiction proposal or manuscript and are interested in working together, please reach out to determine if we’d be a good fit! Please note that I do not edit poetry, scripts/plays/screenplays, or picture books.