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 He now spends his time as a freelance editor working with both published and unpublished authors on fiction and non-fiction projects.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 ...

Jen Howard was born in Escanaba, Michigan, and pursued a PhD in literature with a focus on literary criticism before shifting gears and setting her sights on a career as a writer, writing teacher, and editor. With an MA in English and an MFA in Fiction Writing, she teaches creative writing (both fiction and nonfiction) at Northern Michigan University. She is the editor-in-chief of Passages North, and her own stories and essays have been published in Crab Orchard Review, Blue Mesa Review, Redivider, Sycamore Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Southeast Review, Quarterly Review, wigleaf, Literary M...

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 ...

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...