Andrew Hilleman was born in Omaha, Nebraska, where he earned his MA in English from Creighton University with a concentration in creative writing. This summer he will receive his M.F.A. in fiction from Northern Michigan University where he taught creative writing, composition, and narrative and descriptive writing. He has been published in Fiddlehead magazine and was a finalist for Glimmer Train's 2011 short fiction award. Andrew's tastes are wide and varied, with a special interest in historical fiction, crime fiction and literary fiction, as well as anything and everything political. He en...

Andy Meisenheimer has been working in books since 1999—first as a retailer, then a sales rep, then an acquisitions editor for a division of Harper Collins. He now spends his time as a freelance editor working with both published and unpublished authors on fiction and non-fiction projects. Andy's appreciation for writing was shaped by an early love for Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Michael Crichton, Chaim Potok, and Ray Bradbury. In addition to his work here at TED, he is also a fiction editor for Red Fez Publications, an online literary journal, and the creator of storypraxis, a creative ...

Beth Jusino is an editor, marketer, writer, and former literary agent who loves words and the people who write them. Beth joined The Editorial Department in 2010 after five years as an agent with Alive Communications in Colorado. There, she supported and represented a diverse and active list of best-selling and up-and-coming authors in a variety of genres. She was nominated as “Agent of the Year” in 2008 by The American Christian Fiction Writers, and for three years she judged the Genesis contest for unpublished novelists. She enjoys teaching the crafts of writing and book marketin...

Christopher Fisher joined The Editorial Department in the fall of 2010 and, in addition to editorial acumen, brings with him considerable skills in book layout, production, and design. He has a keen eye for everything from font selection and page design to cover art and layout considerations, and is available to help with both traditional and self-published efforts. Christopher enjoys reading most anything, from award-winning novels to his kids' cereal boxes, and his experience in publishing is just as eclectic. He has worked with authors of academic non-fiction as well as literary and hi...

TED's Director of Development John Robert Marlow is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and adaptation consultant whose nonfiction articles have appeared in the Novel and Short Story Writer's Market and the Screenwriter's and Playwright's Market (both published by Writer's Digest Books), The Writer, Writers' Journal, Backspace, Women On Writing, Writer's World, Urban Muse, Fellow Script, Parade, and numerous other print and online publications. His first novel, Nano, was immediately recognized as cinematic ("Marlow's debut is a real page-turner"—Kirkus Reviews; "Reads like a big...

Kate Joy Steele joined TED in the spring of 2008.  Kate has been researching, writing, ghostwriting, and teaching in business and professional settings since 1979 and has, in that time, translated innumerable pages of corporate-speak to cogent English and written "how-to" manuals on a number of business and academic subjects. Along with being our go-to consultant on business and academic books of all descriptions, she is also a skilled proofreader and copyeditor who has helped bring a number of TED authors to print readiness. Kate is a native of Oklahoma and now resides in the Pacifi...

Nicci Jordan Hubert has been in publishing in its various forms--newspaper, magazine, book, etc.--since 1999, but it is in the slow and loving process of storytelling she's happiest. Currently a freelance editor in New York, Nicci has worked for several publishing houses, including Random House NY. Specializing in fiction, Nicci prefers to work in genres like contemporary women's, literary, as well as the occasional thriller or mystery. She also works frequently with religious fiction, particularly that geared toward the CBA. Her editorial process relies heavily on dialogue and brainstorm...

Penelope J. Stokes is a published writer, prolific editor, and former college professor with a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature. More than twenty years ago she left the classroom to pursue a career in writing and editing, and since then has worked with dozens of writers on more than 150 novels and nonfiction books. In addition, she is the author of eleven novels, including The Blue Bottle Club, Circle of Grace, and Delta Belles, and has also taught fiction seminars at writing conferences around the country. She is represented by Claudia Cross of Sterling Lord Literistic in New York. Penny ...

Peter Gelfan has been editing and ghostwriting both fiction and nonfiction for the past 17 years. His clients range from beginners to published and bestselling authors and celebrities. He also edits screenplays and has sold two he wrote under his own name, one of which was produced and recently released in France. While experienced in most every genre from crime through mainstream to literary, he specializes in analyzing and strengthening underlying structure—plot, character, and scenes in fiction, and organization and argument in nonfiction. Peter has published a feature-length article...

R.J. Cavender is the twice Bram Stoker nominated editor of the +Horror Library+ anthology series from Cutting Block Press. Horror Library IV (co-edited with Boyd E. Harris) won the 2010 reader's choice Black Quill Award from Dark Scribe Magazine in the Best Dark Genre Anthology category. R.J. is a publishing consultant and editor on the upcoming Horror For Good: A Charitable Anthology which includes stories by Bram Stoker winning authors Jack Ketchum, Ray Garton, Ramsey Campbell, and Benjamin Kane Ethridge. He is also a contributing editor at Dark Continents Publishing and has worked clo...

Renni Browne has been editing fiction and nonfiction for forty-eight years. Before she became an editor for Scribner's in 1966, she was a copy editor for Time-Life Books, co-author of a novel, and assistant fiction editor for Woman's Day. When she left Scribner’s she worked part-time for a paperback publisher and a literary agent while reviewing books for Kirkus, Library Journal, and Publisher's Weekly. In 1968 she became senior editor at Stein & Day, where she stayed seven years until she became a senior editor at William Morrow. Because she was not allowed to take the time needed ...

Ross Browne has been editing books since 1992 and developing workshops and seminars for writers since 1997. He has worked closely with hundreds of authors during his time with the company and seen many projects through from first draft to publication. He enjoys working on most genres of commercial fiction and specializes in teaching fiction technique, with a particular emphasis on dialogue. He has worked as a reader/reviewer for a major New York literary agency and works closely with Karinya Funsett-Topping in managing TED’s agent matchmaking program. His favorite writers include J...

Shannon Roberts has always had an interest in the world of media and publishing. In 2007, she graduated as a Mass Communication major from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she had worked during her senior year as a writing tutor and consultant. Using that experience, she began offering her editing services freelance to a number of small clients locally. After a year of this, as well as an internship at Front Street Books (an extension of Boyds Mill Press), she began working closely with Editorial Department founder Renni Browne as an editorial assistant and manuscript co...