There’s always a moment when an author realizes:
This is it. This is the heart of my book.
Those are the moments I built Sage House Editorial around.
As a book editor and strategist for women who want their writing to be just as impactful as their work, I've spent more than a decade teaching writers exactly how to make that happen.
WHAT I DO FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU
I help ambitious women find the book within their expertise and stories and build it into something worth publishing.
Here's what I know to be true: almost every creative or entrepreneur or leader I've ever met has at least one idea for a book. It's an itch. An itchy itch. An itchy itch that feels itchy and absolutely refuses to go away — until finally, one day, you have to scratch it.
But scratching the itch and knowing what your book actually is are two very different things. Most people don't have a book problem. They have a clarity problem. They have journals, frameworks, decades of expertise, a podcast episode they keep thinking could be a chapter — and zero idea how to turn any of it into something coherent, publishable, and worth reading.
That's exactly where I come in. I bring together editorial judgment, publishing strategy, and narrative development to help women go from I think I have a book to I know exactly what my book is and I'm writing it.
I'm a strategist and a sounding board. I'm obsessed with structure and deeply invested in your voice. I combine editorial expertise with analytical thinking — yes, I spent years in corporate project management before I went all in on book editing, and yes, that background absolutely shows up in how I work — to help women build books that are clear, compelling, and created to last.
"The right book doesn't just share your ideas. It becomes part of how the world understands your work."
I've worked with first-time authors who weren't sure they had enough to say and multi-book authors who needed fresh eyes on familiar territory. I've supported self-publishing projects, books with independent presses, and authors landing traditional book deals. Whatever path you're on, my job is the same: help you write the right book.
IS THIS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Sage House Editorial might be exactly what you need if...
You have a book idea, but you're not sure how to shape it into something worth actually writing, let alone publishing.
You're sitting on years of expertise, stories, content, and frameworks, and you need someone to help you figure out what the book in all of that actually is.
You want your book to reflect the real quality of your thinking — not a rushed version you'll regret putting your name on.
You're already writing, but something isn't working, and you can't quite name what it is.
Your manuscript is done, and you need a professional editor who will tell you the truth about what you created and then help you make it better.
You value honest, direct feedback over reassurance, and you're ready to do the work that makes a book genuinely good.
I didn’t set out to work in publishing. But looking back, it makes perfect sense.
HOW I GOT HERE
From devouring books to earning perfect scores on AP English exams to (briefly) dreaming of writing for the president to secretly offering editing services to my college classmates, the signs were there. But figuring out how to turn that passion into a career? That took some trial and error.
I tried the structured, “real-world” path suggested by counselors and teachers alike, but after failing microeconomics and calculus (twice), I accepted my real strength wasn’t in numbers and stopped trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
After earning my degree in English with a specialization in public and professional communication, I considered law school but pivoted to an abbreviated master’s program and earned a Graduate Certificate in Public Health.
I took my analytical side into corporate, spending years as a project manager and process specialist in cybersecurity. And while I was optimizing workflows and managing million-dollar projects, my creative side was quietly losing its mind.
So I built an editing, writing, and coaching business on the side.
What started as cleaning up manuscripts turned into something I hadn't expected: helping writers find the books they were actually trying to write. It was the most fulfilling work I'd ever done, and eventually I had to make a choice.
When my intern started making more than me — true story — the decision became obvious.
In 2022, five years after I landed my first client, I took Sage House Editorial full-time. I've worked with more than 100 authors since, across self-publishing, independent presses, and traditional book deals. And I’ve never looked back.
WHY WOMEN
Sage House Editorial exists for women.
Sage House Editorial = SHE. I can't say it was intentional — but I’m not saying it wasn't.
Becoming a mother crystallized something I'd been circling for years: women rarely need help generating ideas or doing the work.
What they often need is someone to tell them — convincingly, directly, without hedging — that what they know is worth publishing. That their expertise is real. That their story matters. That the book they've been sitting on deserves to exist in the world.
Strategic
Because a book without a clear argument, a defined reader, and a reason to exist isn't a book yet. It's a pile of good ideas.
Men, in my experience, rarely need that convincing.
So I stopped waiting for the conversation to be equal and started showing up specifically for the women who were ready to write — and just needed someone in their corner who took it as seriously as they did. Someone who could look at a pile of stories, frameworks, and hard-won expertise and say: I see it. Here's your book.
Human
Because your voice, your perspective, and your specific way of seeing the world are the whole point. We're not here to sand those down.
Editorial
Because the work of turning an idea into a book is craft, and craft takes expertise, discernment, and a passion for creating what your audience needs.
THE QUICK VERSION
If you like bullet points, here’s the SparkNotes.
BACKGROUND
BA in English (IU), Master’s in Public Health (IUPUI) + years in corporate project management and ops working with execs and industry leaders around the nation.
EXPERIENCE
10+ years in book development and independent publishing. 100+ authors across self-publishing, independent presses, and traditional book deals. Since 2017.
CURRENTLY READING
A mix of narrative nonfiction, Robin Hobb, and whatever my book club picked this month — which I may or may not have actually finished.
PERSONALITY
INTJ, Enneagram 1, 3/5 Generator. Meticulous, big-picture thinker, structurally obsessed, and constitutionally incapable of letting a weak argument slide
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