Get to know the founders
Meg Rosenthal
Editorial Architect
Meg Rosenthal grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and graduated from Queens University of Charlotte with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing. When she’s not moonlighting as a novelist (The Right Words, 2022 and The Wingman, 2025), Meg can be found working her day-job as a professional horseback rider and trainer. Meg also loves painting, her cats, the color pink, and preaching the importance of commas.
Meg’s education includes a major in creative writing and a minor in professional writing and rhetoric. She has experience in contract writing and review, beta reading, tutoring essay writing, manuscript editing, and literary magazine editing.
While the credentials of qualification are important and cool, her real reason for helping you is that she loves fiction. She loves living in the world of character arcs, plot structures, and nitty gritty grammar details. Above all, she loves discovering worlds created by new writer friends (indie or otherwise) and helping them develop their vision to its fullest potential.
Learn more about Meg here.
Alyssa K. Burns
Business & Marketing Architect
Alyssa K. Burns is a journalist and young adult author who writes coming-of-age fiction following self-destruction to self-discovery. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communication from California State University, East Bay, and her Master of Business Administration from California State University, San Marcos.
She self-published her debut novel, The Last Special Thing, which topped the Amazon charts several times over:
#1 New Release YA Drug & Alcohol Abuse
#2 New Release YA Dating and Sex
#2 New Release YA Peer Pressure
#11 Best Seller YA Peer Pressure.
Alyssa knows what it takes to make an indie book a success and is eager to help all of her clients find the same. Above all, she believes that you can have the best book ever, but if no one knows about it, then it’s a passion project, not a career. Alyssa’s goal is to make sure you treat your book like a business and avoid all the costly and timing mistakes along the way.
Alyssa is an elder emo, iced-mocha enthusiast, and wife and mother who enjoys dancing in the kitchen and never cooking.
Learn more about Alyssa here.
The Team
Lanie Hitt is a Charlotte-based book lover who always has a novel within arm's reach. With a heart for romance, thrillers, and fantasy, she believes there's nothing better than a story to get lost in. She works alongside authors to help their books find the readers already waiting for them. Through social media support, publicity, bookstore and media outreach, and event planning, she takes the stress out of marketing, so authors can focus on writing.
When she's not reading or working behind the scenes, you'll find her with a coffee in hand, at a live show, shopping small and local, hanging with friends and her dog, trying new things for fun, and cheering on the Carolina Panthers and Hurricanes, Charlotte Checkers, and St. Louis Blues. She's also a fall enthusiast through and through—cozy sweaters, hot drinks, and a good book are her happy place.
Lanie Hitt
Publicity Architect
Jen is a book girlie for life, with a broad range of knowledge across genres and tropes. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in creative writing and a Master of Arts in Teaching, she has a broad range of expertise. Growing up in the Northeast and moving to the South for college, she’s a tell-it-like-it-is perfectionist (Enneagram 1) who will cheerlead you to new heights. When she’s not reading or writing, you can find her teaching, dancing, singing, or baking. She can’t wait to fine-tune your work and make it clean, clear, and ready for publishing.
Jen Harlow
Editorial Architect
Leila is a grad student, a Jesus-follower, a bookworm, an editor, a redhead, and an author. She’s all about joy, and she can promise you’ll receive your manuscript back with no less than 30 comments gushing about how obsessed she is with your characters.
Leila is a soon-to-be MFA Creative Writing graduate. She reads a lot and never turns her editor brain off. Leila wants readers to fall madly in love with your story; she will never fail to recognize the effort you’ve put in and aims to use every edit to make your story more like you’ve always dreamt it would be. She’s here to be your biggest fan and greatest encouragement, and she’s so excited to be trusted with your words!
Leila Heikkinen
Editorial Architect
Sabrina Grimaldi is an Arizona-native author, journalist, and editor. Her debut young adult novel, We Are Not the Same, explores female friendship, girlhood, and self-love against a small-town Fourth of July backdrop. Published in 2025, the novel quickly resonated with readers, debuting at #1 on Amazon’s Women’s & Girls New Releases list. When not reading or writing, you'll probably find her sipping on an iced coffee, listening to Taylor Swift, or spending time with her husband, baby girl, and poodle.