Hi! I'm Shira, and I love children's content, audio, and innovation.

Hi! 👋 I'm Shira. I'm a publishing professional with 15+ years of experience across print and audio publishing and innovation. I've been in board rooms with corporate executives, run alongside startup founders, and devoted myself to supported authors since 2009. My varied background means I see the publishing industry from a high-level, which helps me focus on all the right details.

Let me help you take your next step ⬇️ 

Who works with me

Aspiring & Published Authors

• Book Coaching - support authors through manuscript drafting, at all stages of development, across genres/reader ages
• Book Development - editorial review at all levels
• Proposal & Materials Revision - help you hone your message to pitch editors 
  
• Agent Querying - advise querying authors on how to land their dream agent
• Audio strategy - opportunity, analysis, sales, licensing

Indie Publishers & Publishing Startups

• Licensing strategy - extend your list into more formats and points of sale
  
• Operations - ideate sustainable systems for tracking and supporting rights, licenses, sales, and partnerships
  
• Sales & Partnerships - sub rights, author outreach, literary agent outreach, 

Why I want to work with YOU

• You've taken your writing project as far as you can ...and need support
  
• Querying is killing your love of the craft. Let me help you over the hurdle.
• You're an Indie or Hybrid Author looking for contracts or subright sales support.
• You value innovation ...and want a partner around out-of-the-box ideas
  
• You make content ...and need a combination of expertise in creative, strategy, and operations to launch a new imprint or expand into a new line of business
  
• You think licensing sounds interesting ...and want your list to reach more people in more formats.
  

Where I've been: Bindery Books, Blackstone Publishing, Audible, Radish Fiction, Litographs, Qlovi, ICM Partners, InkWell Literary Agency, Penguin Random House, and Foundry Literary