Meghan Houser is a New York-based editor with over a decade of publishing experience.
I can help your story reach the world.
I am a reader, cheerleader, and lifelong student of nonfiction narrative. As an acquiring editor at Penguin Random House and Macmillan I worked with authors across memoir, journalism, history, cultural criticism, and popular science. As an independent editor and collaborator I draw on the breadth of my experience with each project, seeking to bring new voices, and books, to readers everywhere.
What does your project need?
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Developmental Editing
From initial concept to structure, style, and line editing, I can help shape and polish your manuscript.
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Proposals & Queries
I can help frame, draft, and edit your perfect pitch to agents, publishers and/or media.
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Collaboration
I’m available as a cowriter or ghostwriter for proposals and manuscripts.
“My unparalleled editor, Meghan Houser, provided constant guidance, cheerleading, insight, and patience, and I am forever grateful to her for taking a chance on this project and for breathing life into it.”
—Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
“Meghan Houser, you are a magician with the pen—your intellect and empathy made the rewrites manageable.”
—Michael Tubbs, author of The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home
