Our Staff
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Rachel Haimowitz, Managing Editor As an editor, Rachel has worked at Avalon Publishing, Pearson/NAF, and Upper Deck Entertainment. She began where most of us do (with copyediting and slush pile reading) and eventually advanced all the way through to acquisitions and editorial team management. When she left Manhattan publishing to freelance, she went on to developmental edit a number of projects, including two national bestsellers and a 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year winner. She’s also worked as a ghostwriter and a copyeditor, and launched and operated a retail store for seven successful years before selling to focus on the world of publishing. |
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Aleksandr Voinov, Senior Editor Aleksandr has been published for twenty years, both in print and ebook. He has ten years’ experience as a writing coach, book doctor, and writing teacher, and he works as a financial editor in the research department of a pan-European investment bank. |
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Tal Valante, Webmaster / Senior Editor Tal's passion in life is building worlds, whether digital ones using programming languages, or literary ones using plain ol' English. When she's not buried neck-deep in code, you can find her editing manuscripts, designing fantasy worlds, or torturing characters in her own original works. |
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Alex Whitehall, Associate Production Manager If there are two types of people in the world, Alex probably isn't one of them, despite being a person. He—for lack of a better pronoun—will read just about anything once, although contemporary and fantasy are his favorites, especially if they have a touch of angst. Or maybe a heavy helping. He earned an English degree but never expected to end up in editorial and publishing like he always wanted, yet here he is, searching out his happy ending. |
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Sarah Frantz, Acquisition Editor Sarah comes to editing from two directions: from her academic work on popular romance studies and from reviewing for Dear Author. Academia taught her how to analyze narrative structure. Reviewing romance for almost four years taught her how to spot dubious motivation and wooden dialogue at thirty paces. She has transferred her analytical and reviewing talents to editing, so when she makes you cry, it’ll be in private rather than for the whole world to see. You’re welcome. |
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Mike K., Editor Mike has worked in editorial and literary management for award-winning authors in several genres. He is a sought-after keynote speaker and a member of the oldest author services firm in the nation. He uses his experience as a one-on-one tutor to provide thorough and friendly editorial aid. As a licensed independent literary contractor, he serves in multiple capacities as a consultant, publishing and marketing coach, developmental and copy editor, manuscript evaluator, and workshop instructor. |
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Tiffany Maxwell, Editor Tiffany Maxwell is an obsessive editor who accesses the Internet by tapping teaspoons on the telephone wire above her igloo in Toronto, Ontario. Like most editors, her hair is made of snakes, but unlike most editors, she's trained hers to coil up in a stylish French knot. When she's not kicking kittens into woodchippers or correcting the grammar on street graffiti, she can be found panning for gold and dog sledding. One of the statements in this paragraph is true. |
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Kristen Osborne, Associate Editor Kristen fell in love with books before she could read, entranced by the bedtime-story magic of Little Women, The Secret Garden, and other classic little-girl tales (Thanks, Mom!). Romance escalated into obsession at age eight, however, when her dad handed her a copy of The Hobbit. Twenty-plus years and a few liberal arts degrees later, she still gobbles up everything from Old Norse epics to postmodern short stories. She’s also an embarrassingly pedantic grammarian who's never ready to order in a restaurant because she’s been proofreading the menu instead of choosing her meal. |
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Carole-ann Galloway, Associate Editor Carole-ann fell in love with LGBTQ fiction while completing her English degree in Nottingham. She loved studying literature but struggled to take her nose out of the books long enough to write her essays. After a few years of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, and creative writing, she had to join the real world, where they won’t let her read a book under the table. |
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Nevair, Proofreader Nevair has been working in the editing/publishing field for fifteen plus years. She’s worked as a proofreader, copy editor, production editor, and developmental editor. Nevair started devouring books at age nine when her grandma told her reading would help her relax and fall asleep. Grandma was wrong because, ever since that fateful moment, Nevair has been sitting up until the wee hours reading until the morning alarm goes off. |
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L.C. Chase, Art Director Artist by day, author by night. One of L.C.'s very first drawings was adding bridles and saddles to an oil painting of wild horses when she was four years old. Mom wasn't very happy with the defaced painting, but a blank sketchbook and set of crayons solved the problem. |
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Reese Dante, Cover Artist Reese is a self-taught artist who has drawn from the moment she could pick up a crayon. Well, squiggle, but you've got to start somewhere. She studied every detail in photographs and played with different tools and media until finally settling with pencil portrait sketches. For the better part of her life, she dabbled in design work primarily as a hobby until an author friend approached her in 2009 to design a cover for his first release. |
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Petite-Madame VonApple, Cover Artist Petite-Madame is a French illustrator who lives and works in Paris, France. A self-taught artist, P.M. lived several years in Japan and has been greatly influenced by Japanese culture and the works of artists like Oga Kazuo. |
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Jordan Taylor, Cover Artist Author of Wonder Dogs: 101 German Shepherd Dog Films, as well as fiction, poetry, and screenplays, Jordan has been writing since childhood. She illustrated her first book at age six and kept a constant interest in all things books and book art ever since. Somewhat more advanced in skill now than then, Jordan does graphics and illustrations, book covers, pet portraits, and photography. You can find her at www.jordantaylorbooks.com and www.hatonahorse.com. |
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Roberto Quintero, Cover Artist View Roberto's gallery of paintings at http://elguaricho.deviantart.com/. |
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Amber Shah, Cover Artist Amber is a budding author, an avid reader, and a slightly obsessive cover art nerd. When her friends got tired of her waxing poetic about typography and proportions, she figured out she should put her corporate design skills to good use. Since then, she has created covers and websites for publishers and indie authors. When she’s not designing, she’s reading about hot sex between troubled characters or—even better—writing it. There’s a lot of imaginary in her world. |
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Del Melchionda, Cover Artist Del Melchionda is a digital painter who creates figurative and landscape work with elements of fantasy. She has a background in fine arts and 3D animation with a particular interest in anatomy and figure drawing. Her work has been published in ImagineFX magazine, Ballistic Publishing's Exotique series, and as cover art illustrations. More of her art can be seen here: http://delmelchionda.daportfolio.com/. |
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Imaliea, Cover Artist Imaliea is an Aussie artist and designer. From an early age she has loved to draw and paint people, beginning with Disney-like and anime characters and finally settling into a realistic style. Now she enjoys both creating original artwork and painting portraits, with the human figure (only sometimes including angel wings) always the main feature of her work. |
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Kanaxa, Cover Artist |
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Stephanie Grober, Marketing Coordinator With literary tastes that include contemporary fiction and poetry, abstract gender theory, human rights issues, and post-modern explorations of the written word, Stephanie brings a diverse perspective to her position as Marketing Coordinator for Riptide, where she happily stays abreast of the latest trends in reading, publishing, and anything else that can be #hashtagged. |
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Kelly H., Administrative Assistant: Sales and Digital Support Kelly’s degree in journalism and mass communication still comes in handy quite often, despite having been earned in the era of column inches and paste-up rooms. Her vehement impatience with overblown writing and meaningless jargon, honed by 20+ years of appeasing cigar-smoking news editors, tightly-wound corporate attorneys, and clients who can only specify what they don’t want, recently led her to pursue a different career. |
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