Sally Arteseros
I began my editorial career at Doubleday and was there for thirty years, most of them as Senior Editor. Now an Independent Editor, I edit fiction and nonfiction manuscripts for authors, agents and publishers, some on a confidential basis. I do developmental editing, structuring, cutting, line editing, always eager to help shape a good story.
Specialties: Commercial and literary fiction, including short stories.
Nonfiction: biography, psychology, science, religion, business, anthropology, inspiration, essays, and academic books, helping academics write for a general audience.
Prize-winning and best-selling authors with whom I have worked include A.B. Yehoshua, Edward T. Hall, Deborah Tannen, Phillip Lopate, Dr. Bernie Siegel, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Elizabeth Fernea, Shelby Hearon, Susan Shapiro, Joy Fielding, Laurence Bergreen, Allan Lenzner, Jeffrey Colvin.
For many years I was in-house editor of the distinguished annual series Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Later the Literary Guild commissioned me to edit a volume of best contemporary American stories called American Voices, published in hardcover by Hyperion and in paperback by Washington Square Press.
Affliliations: Women’s Media Group (past President). Member of PEN and of the IEG..
“Working with my editor was a revelation and a joy. I came to admire and trust her unfailingly wise and prompt editorial judgment.”
“The author would like to express gratitude to Sally Arteseros. His writing is human. Her editing is divine. ”