Stephanie Stein, Senior Editor at Tor/Macmillan

Stephanie Stein is a Senior Editor at Tor Books. Before joining the Tor team, she spent eleven years in marketing and editorial roles at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where she worked with acclaimed and bestselling YA and middle grade authors including Sarah Underwood, Shveta Thakrar, Ava Reid, Mark Oshiro, and Michael Leali, and was also the lead editor of Erin Hunter’s #1 bestelling Warriors series.

For her list at Tor, Stephanie is acquiring science fiction, fantasy, and fantasy romance for adult readers. She loves a smartly conceived retelling, an ornery dragon, a magical school, or a hypercompetent assassin, and she’s on the hunt for irresistibly cool magic, space opera that travels to strange new worlds and civilizations, and romance that uses speculative elements to heighten the emotional stakes and make you feel all the feels.

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Work with Stephanie

LIVE Meetings: Meet face-to-face, from home. Choose Zoom, Google Meet, or phone, and speak for the appointed time about your query, first page, and/or first ten pages (for longer meetings). Does not include written notes, but is a chance to have an honest discussion about your work, and to ask follow-up questions. International meetings welcomed.

WRITTEN Critiques: Get detailed, thoughtful notes on your work. Comes with large-scale edits (character, world, plot, tension, concept, conflict, and similar as needed) in an editorial letter and small-scale, line-by-line notes as needed (for longer critiques, an average of three per page). Work arrives in your inbox by the date on the calendar.

HYBRID is a live meeting at the appointment time, with written notes.