Pamela Bobowicz
Editor, author, and traditional publishing consultant specializing in manuscript critique, developmental editing, book doctoring, ghostwriting, and line editing for fiction and nonfiction.
Pamela Bobowicz is a NYC book editor who now works freelance for The Editorial Department after over two decades of experience acquiring and editing titles for major publishing houses including Penguin Random House, Disney Books, HarperCollins Children’s Books, Abrams Books. She’s worked with New York Times bestselling authors, celebrities, debut authors, major media companies, and more.
Her passion for storytelling and character development led her to spend much of her editing career in the children’s space, working on middle grade and young adult fiction and non-fiction. She’s worked with well-known authors including Libba Bray, Sarah Mlynowski, Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, Barry Lyga, Katie Kennedy, and more. And as a reader, she’s always loved a good mystery. Lucky for her she began her career at Bantam Dell, learning the craft of editing and storytelling by reviewing manuscripts for Lee Child, Laurie R. King, and Greg Rucka.
Pamela’s experience as executive and senior editor for several “Big 5” publishers gives her an insider’s perspective on what publishers want and what it takes for writers to be successful in a fiercely competitive traditional publishing marketplace. But she’s still excited by helping new authors find their voice and hone their stories, no matter what the desired path to publication. She particularly loves working with authors who are beginning their careers—or beginning a new journey within established careers—as she excels with development and inspiring authors to tell the stories they feel most compelled to share with the world. She believes self-publishing and small presses are as important as trade publishing in our ever-changing media landscape, and her goal as an editor is to help as many books meet their readers as she can.
During her time as a book editor, she spent more than 15 years working with media companies including Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix, Sony, 20th Century Fox/BlueSky, Hasbro and DC Comics/Warner Bros, as well as brands including Guinness World Records. She loves to play in someone else’s creative world and find unique angles to bring the stories to the big screen, the small screen, the toy aisle, and more to readers.
Pamela is also an author herself, having written many books for young readers, and is working on a novel, short stories, and a memoir. Her writing credits include work on major titles for Marvel (What Makes A Hero, The Hero I’m Meant to Be), Scholastic, Disney, and Random House. She’s also ghostwritten titles in the young adult and romance spaces.
Pamela grew up in Massachusetts reading every book she could get her hands on whether through weekly trips to the library or doing extra chores to earn money for the Scholastic book fairs at school. She’s always loved to spend time with characters who feel like new friends—the ones who take grand adventures, engage in activities she is too afraid to try herself but will watch from the sidelines, and solve problems that seem insurmountable. She firmly believes in the idea that characters don’t have to be likeable, but that the reader has to like spending time with them. She also loves books that teach her something new whether that be history, science, or a new way of thinking.