OWNER/EDITOR

Specializes in developmental, line, and copy editing, proofreading, mentoring/brainstorming services, as well as copywriting for web, newsletters, blogs, and marketing collateral. Reedsy-approved editor.

Genres: Romance (all subgenres), upmarket/book club women’s fiction, YA, fantasy (urban, epic, high), thriller/suspense. Also narrative and business nonfiction.

Jennifer Sommersby is the author of thirteen novels and three novellas written under two names (YA under Sommersby; rom-com, women’s fiction, and “enviromance” as Eliza Gordon) and is traditionally and indie published. Her debut YA novel, Sleight (HarperCollins Canada, SkyPony US), was a Fall 2018 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens and an Ontario Library Association Best Bets Honourable Mention Book for YA, 2019. She won a 2019 British Columbia Arts Council grant for a YA eco-fiction work-in-progress.

Jenn has also worked as a freelance editor since 2005, offering developmental, line/copy editing, proofreading, manuscript review, and mentoring/brainstorming. Her current roster of clients includes internationally best-selling authors Samantha Young, Sawyer Bennett, and KA Tucker, plus she is available for hire on the Reedsy marketplace. Jenn is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (the-efa.org), the Writers Union of Canada, Editors Canada, ACES: The Society for Editing, the Federation of BC Writers, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), the Authors Guild (US), Sisters in Crime, and Sisters in Crime Canada West.

A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio (2007), she owns/operates SGA Books, an education and resource portal for new and working writers.

If you are interested in working with Jenn, contact her at jennifer@plumfieldediting.com to discuss your project.