Trust is crucial
It’s important to choose the right editor for your creative work. 

When you hand over your creative baby, you need to trust that the editor will pinpoint precisely where the story isn’t working and how it can be strengthened. You need to trust that the editor will know exactly how to help make your story sing. 

That’s because the right editor can help you build your ideas and refine your writing.

Alexandra Nahlous has worked on hundreds of manuscripts and short stories, and has worked with an extraordinary number of authors, from Liane Moriarty, to Judy Nunn, Christos Tsiolkas, Kaye Dobbie, Paul Daley, C.S. Pacat, Fiona McArthur, Cathryn Hein, Vanessa Carnevale and Helen Scheuerer. She is an expert structural/developmental editor and copy editor, and she will know exactly how to help take your manuscript to the next level.

 
Experience matters
Just as it’s the rewriting that makes the difference in a manuscript, it’s experience that makes the difference with an editor. Alexandra Nahlous has two decades of editing and publishing experience. She has worked in-house with major Australian publishers Allen & Unwin and Pan Macmillan Australia as a senior editor and fiction publisher. And she won the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship in 2009-10, and spent three months working with New York publishers. Since 2013, she has worked as a freelance editor with major and independent publishers, agents, and directly with authors. 

Alexandra taught editing at the University of Technology, Sydney between 2013 and 2016, and she has presented numerous workshops for writers, including at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the NSW Writers’ Centre, Writers Unleashed! Festival, and RWA Conference.

Whether you’ve written your first manuscript or your fifth one, whether you’re submitting your work to an agent or publisher, or are self-publishing, Alexandra’s expert eye will help you to develop it and polish it so that it is of the highest quality.

 
Areas of specialisation
Alexandra specialises in fiction and narrative non-fiction. She is known in the publishing industry for her passion for commercial fiction and women’s fiction, romance, crime, thriller, action/adventure, fantasy, literary, Young Adult and junior fiction. She also has extensive experience editing biographies and memoirs.

She has edited some of Australia’s bestselling novels, including Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret and The Hypnotist’s Love Story, Kaye Dobbie’s Willow Tree Bend and Mackenzie Crossing, C.S. Pacat’s Kings Rising, and Helen Scheuerer’s The Oremere Chronicles trilogy.

Alexandra has edited an enormous variety of non-fiction, including Anne Aly’s Finding My Place, Paul McGeough’s Kill Khalid, Mary Delahunty’s Gravity, Rae Morris’s Makeup: The Ultimate Guide and Valerie Parv’s The Art of Romance Writing. 

 
Client list
Alexandra’s client list includes Penguin Random House, HarperCollins Publishers, ABC Books, Harlequin Enterprises, Scholastic Australia, Brio Books, UWA Publishing, Melbourne University Publishing and Hardie Grant Books. 

She also works directly with authors and agents to assess, develop and edit manuscripts.