M&M Editors for Manuscript Critique
Editors for Manuscript Critique
Have your partial manuscript critiqued by a major editor! This year the Moonlight and Magnolias Conference is offering a new opportunity to our attendees. If you’d like to know if your manuscript is ready for submission or looking for feedback on what you need to work on, here is your chance.
Choose from the following list of industry leading editors and purchase your critique(s) today for $150.00 (each). This includes up to 20 pages (including optional synopsis).
What should you expect from your critique? An editorial letter that includes, but not limited to, thoughts on voice, salability, where it fits in the marketplace/thoughts on comps, and if your manuscript is ready to query or requires further work.
*Critiques are NOT included in the conference fee. You must register for them here:
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**Please note this is on a first come first serve basis and quantities are limited! So don’t wait.
List of Available Editors
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TULE Publishing
Tule’s one goal is to publish fantastic stories by the best writers. We want to delight our readers and satisfy our authors’ desire for creativity, freedom, and commercial success. Many of our authors are from the traditional NY world of publishing, with an existing reader fan base.
Nikki Babri
Nikki is SOLD OUT.
Nikki Babri is an Associate Editor and Marketing Manager
for Tule Publishing, an independent publisher bringing
readers the best in commercial fiction. After getting her
BA in English and Communications from the University
of California, Davis, she joined Tule Publishing in 2019.
She has a strong passion for diverse stories, particular
those featuring Middle Eastern characters. When she’s
not reading, Nikki enjoys going on adventures with her
adorable pup, Belle—named after the book-loving heroine, of course!
Tule will accept critiques for:
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Contemporary Romance
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Inkspell Publishing
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Inkspell Publishing began with the dream of offering a small publishing house experience which allowed authors’ hopes to become reality. The feel of a family along with each author’s input have provided hundreds of amazing books for readers. The beautiful covers, compelling stories, and community of authors has created award winning and bestselling stories which delight romance fans. Our authors span the globe from South America to England and from Australia to Canada, as well as authors from across the US. Inkspell Publishing is an ebook-first romance publisher with contemporary, paranormal, and science fiction romances. With vampires, witches, fairy godmothers, angsty heroes, and gutsy heroines, our stories feature a book for everyone! Currently accepting submissions, our submission process is outlined on our website. We hope to read your manuscript! Inkspell - be Enchanted!
Inspell Publishing will accept critiques in:
• Contemporary Romance
• Paranormal Romance
Harlequin (Carina Press)
https://carinapress.submittable.com/submit
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Carina Press is Harlequin’s digital-first adult fiction imprint; all our titles publish first in digital, with select releases in audio and print. Since its inception as the first digital imprint within a traditional publishing house, Carina Press has been an industry leader, publishing a broad range of romance and mystery.
Kerri Buckley, Executive Editor, Carina Press
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Kerry is SOLD OUT
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Kerri Buckley, the Executive Editor at Carina Press,
got her first taste of the great editorial adventure
during a semester-long internship at The Feminist
Press in 2001. Thoroughly hooked, she joined
Bantam Dell (a division of Random House) and
stayed there for eight years, editing both fiction and
non-fiction for various imprints under the Ballantine
Bantam Dell umbrella. Since joining Carina Press in
2013, Kerri has been actively acquiring across romance but has focused her list primarily on contemporary and erotic romance, romantic suspense, and LGBTQ+ content in all subgenres.
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Stephanie Doig, Editor, Carina Press
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Stephanie is SOLD OUT
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Stephanie is an editor with Carina Press. She began
her career at Harlequin in the proofreading department,
and she worked as a copy editor and author liaison
before moving to Editorial. Stephanie edits across
genres and is especially interested in acquiring more
character-driven contemporary romances with smart,
sharp dialogue and deep emotion.
Accepting critiques for:
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Paranormal (including fantasy)
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Romantic suspense
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Historical subgenres
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LGBTQ+ stories
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The Wild Rose Press
https://wildrosepress.com/traditionalpublishing/
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The Wild Rose Press was founded in 2006 by RJ Morris and Rhonda Penders. Both published authors, these women were disheartened by the way publishers treated authors.
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Over 500 authors and 3500 titles later this motto has proven to be solid. When other small presses have come and gone, The Wild Rose Press has never wavered. It truly is a publishing house for authors, founded by authors with customer satisfaction being their number one priority.
Ally Robertson
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Ally Robertson has been an editor with The Wild Rose Press since they opened in 2006. She is also a freelance editor and author, under the name Alicia Dean, with more than twenty-five published titles. She’s partial to all things dark and creepy…the scarier the better. She loves meeting authors, discovering fabulous new stories and helping authors realize their dreams. Many years divorced, with three grown children, she lives in Edmond, Oklahoma. She adores editing, writing, reading, Elvis Presley, and watching her favorite television shows—which she calls 'research' so it doesn't seem as though she’s wasting time. 
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Accepting critiques in:
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Suspense
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Paranormal
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Historical
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Contemporary
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Leanne Morgena
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Leanne Morgena started with The Wild Rose Press just two months after the publishing company opened its doors. She serves as the Senior Editor for the Sweetheart line, but she also edits for the Champagne, Crimson, Women’s Fiction, and historical lines. Prior to coming to TWRP, she worked two years as a junior editor for non-defunct Ellora’s Cave. Also a writer with a career of experience in the secretarial field, she spent years in critique groups and judging contests. In the late 1990s, she started offering edits to her friends. In 2012, she formalized the process and opened a freelance editing business encompassing all romance sub-genres, narrative non-fiction, science fiction, and paranormal stories. Her clients include USA Today and New York Times bestselling authors.
Accepting critiques in:
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Contemporary
Lea Schizas
Spots Available!
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Accepting critiques in:
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Paranormal
Josette Arthur
Spots Available!
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Accepting Critiques in:
• Rom-Com
• Gothic
Morena Stamm
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Accepting critiques for:
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Contemporary
- Fantasy
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Eilidh MacKenzie​
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Eilidh MacKenzie has been a fiction editor for 15 years in the genres of romance, science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, and mystery/suspense. She is a Scottish-Canadian currently living in the backwoods of Nova Scotia. When not editing, she reads, knits, sews, and learns traditional Gaelic songs.
Accepting critiques for:
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Historical
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Sci-fi
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Paranormal
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Fantasy
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Mystery/suspense
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Frances Sevilla
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Accepting critiques for:
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Historical
- Sci-fi
- Fantasy
- Paranormal
- Mystery/suspense
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Laura Kelly
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Accepting critiques for:
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Romantic suspense
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