Specialties: commercial  and literary fiction, including historicals, mysteries, thrillers, and suspense novels, as well as romances and chick-lit.

 

A former senior editor at Bantam books, Danelle McCafferty started her own editorial business in 1990. She works closely with authors on all stages of a manuscript, from outline and plot development to rewriting. She has edited six serio-comic novels by Tom Robbins, including Villa Incognito and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, all on the New York Times bestseller list. A four-book historical series by Liz Curtis Higgs, including Mine Is the Night (NY Times bestseller); two historicals and one stand-alone novel by Dot Ryan, including Corrigan's Pool, winner of the Foreword Review Book of the Year Award for Best Historical Romance (2011), and finalist in the Foreword Historical Romance Award (2013) for No Place for Dowsers; Nancy Hayes Kilgore, Vermont Writers’ Prize: Bitter Magic (historical) and two contemporary novels, Wild Mountain and Sea Level; and Katelynn Parker, Hosanna, BRAG Medallion Award. 

 

Danelle has also edited a number of mysteries and thrillers. A sampling: The first two books in the Earl Garnet Series: Lethal Practice and Death Rounds by Peter Clement; Fate from Circumstance by Jason Carr; Unwitting Accomplice by Sid Meltzer; The President's Dossier by James A. Scott; and The Vatican's Vault by Barry Libin. The first two books in The Lady Doc Series: Dying for Revenge and Dying for Compassion by Barbara Golder; Semblance of Guilt and two mysteries in the Art History series, Stolen Light and False Light, as well as a stand-alone novel by Claudia Riess. Although she no longer edits young adult books, Danelle edited the first fifty books of the wildly successful Sweet Valley High series and edited many of the new Nancy Drew Files for Mega-Books.

 

One of Danelle's proudest accomplishments is co-founding the Book Editors Alliance, now in its twenty-fifth year. For three years, she was a panelist at ThrillerCom. She has been a judge in the General Fiction category for the Next Generation Indy Book awards. She has also spoken at other writers' conferences in New York City, Dallas, and New Orleans.

 

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