Who I Am

My love for literature started before I could read. My mother read to me and I dreamed of writing stories, which I started doing in elementary school. I was 13 when I decided I was going to be a novelist when I grew up. Only, I didn’t wait until I grew up. I wrote my first book at 15.

I began dabbling in editing in college. While earning a bachelor's degree in Literary Studies, I began editing for fellow writers and tutoring in English. In 2016, I signed a three-book deal with Macmillan that gave me experience working with real editors (acquisition editors, editor's assistants, copyeditors, and proofreaders). That was when my real interest in becoming an editor began. With Macmillan, I published How to Breathe Underwater, We Are the Ghosts, and All Our Worst Ideas.

In 2020, I began teaching creative writing workshops for a small business for all ages of writers, from Pre-K to adult. I have worked one-on-one with authors of both fiction and nonfiction to help coach them through their projects, from conception to publication, and helped develop a multi-year curriculum of creative writing seminars.

In 2022, I began freelance editing. I work primarily with fiction authors, especially romance and horror writers, of all experience levels, sometimes first time authors and sometimes seasoned independent authors. While working with other authors, I’ve also independently published over a dozen novels under the pen names B. Randall, Winter Randall, and Sebby Randall.