Heidi Pitlor Email & Phone Number

Heidi Pitlor Editorial LLC specializes in editing, author coaching, and consulting.We empower published writers, agents, editors, and publishers with individualized knowledge and support. This business can be overwhelming. As successful longtime editors, teachers, and authors ourselves, warmth and emotional insight are as important to us as pragmatism and rigor.

Oversee editorial aspects of digital and otherwise innovative literary publishing projects, such as:• Recovering the Classics (recoveringtheclassics.com)• Stories in Motion (storiesinmotion.us) • The New York Public Library digital shorts collection• Launch partner for Amazon Original Stories Kindle Singles and Collections

Work with guest editors to select the year’s twenty best short stories. Past guest editors include Stephen King, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Strout, Jennifer Egan, Roxane Gay, Anthony Doerr, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Jesmyn Ward.

Consult with individual writers on story or book-length projects. The Verto Literary Group is a Boston-based start-up founded in 2019 by Pulitzer-Prize winner Gareth Cook. Our team of editors works with clients from developing an initial idea to turning in the final manuscript.

Taught MFA candidates fiction writing, non-fiction writing, and editing.

Curated a collection of 100 digital short stories for a group that includes The New York Public Library, Audible, The Digital Public Library of America, and The Khan Academy.

Acquired, edited, and oversaw publication of literary fiction and nonfiction.

Assisted Executive Editor and Vice President/Publisher of Trade Department in the administration and editing of primarily books of fiction.