Karen Grove

Critique Boutique Information

Open to critiquing: Query, Synopsis, First Pages 10/50, Full Chapter Book.

Dates available: Aug 1 – Dec 15

Preferences: None stated.

Restrictions: None stated.

I’m a 40-year veteran of the publishing industry. I worked as an in-house editor in the Children’s Department of Harcourt for 24 years–editing picture books, middle grade, and young adult fiction and nonfiction–and transitioned to a contract position when they were bought out by Houghton Mifflin in 2008.As a consulting editor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt from 2008 until 2019, I focused on young adult fiction. From 2012 to 2018, I also acquired and edited romance and New Adult fiction for Entangled Publishing, working as a Senior Editor and Founding Editorial Director of Embrace, their line of New Adult Fiction. I now work solely as a freelance editor, focusing on middle grade, young adult, romance, women’s fiction, and New Adult for publishers, agents, and indie authors.

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