{"id":13902,"date":"2018-02-06T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.com\/?p=13902"},"modified":"2021-11-22T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T21:01:36","slug":"gretchen-stelter-freelancing-super-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/gretchen-stelter-freelancing-super-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Stelter: Making Books Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Gretchen Stelter got her BA in English from Ball State in 2003. She studied in Australia before receiving an MA in professional writing from\u00a0Portland State. Since then, she has worked with writers as an agent and editor for more than a decade. More than 500 books she has worked on have been published by traditional publishing houses. She&#8217;s worked on writing at every stage, from development to copyediting and proofreading. She also writes for\u00a0<\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booksforbetterliving.com\/author\/gstelter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Books for Better Living<\/a><i>,\u00a0<\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/search?q1=Gretchen%20Stelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healthline.com<\/a><i>,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantjournal.com\/?s=Gretchen+Stelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elephant Journal<\/a><i>. See some of her work <\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gretchenstelter.com\/\">here<\/a><i>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Gretchen lives and writes in Portland, Oregon.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18.72px;color: #800000\"><strong>How did your English major lead to your current position? What skills did you learn as an English major that helped you transition into that job?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_13903\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13903\" class=\"wp-image-13903 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095352\/gstetler-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095352\/gstetler-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095352\/gstetler-768x508.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095352\/gstetler-1024x678.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095352\/gstetler-1058x700.jpeg 1058w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095352\/gstetler.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretchen Stelter. Image from her website: www.gretchenstelter.com.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After I finished my English degree at Ball State, I went to graduate school for a degree in professional writing with a focus in book publishing at Portland State. From\u00a0there, I actually helped start a literary agency with a classmate, which\u00a0I co-ran with her for five years before I\u00a0started editing and writing freelance full-time.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0The writing skills I gained while at BSU, as well as literary analysis, have helped me in both roles as the editorial director of the agency, and as a writer and editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Truly, the ability to read a manuscript and discuss what makes it strong, what makes it appeal to a specific demographic or not, and what sorts of themes it contains has served me very well in my career.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">What\u2019s a typical day like for you?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A typical day for me is one when I work from home, which I do about 99% of the time if I don\u2019t have in-person meetings with clients or colleagues. I respond to emails in the morning, because I live on the West Coast and most publishing house clients are on the East Coast. By the time I\u2019m up and at the computer, I\u2019ll have a few queries or check-ins I need to respond to. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After I\u2019m done with emails in the morning, I get started on whatever my most pressing deadline is, which I devote the bulk of my day to. That could mean proofreading, copyediting, developmental editing, or writing. I like to have a variety of projects at any given time, so if I hit a wall with my concentration, I\u2019ll start work on one of my other projects to give myself a mental refresh. For pretty much all of my work, I\u2019m on the computer with a number of files and internet windows open to do research, update style sheets, and double-check dictionaries and style guides. I work into the evening, but how late depends on just how pressing my deadlines are. I\u2019ve been known to work until midnight when I\u2019ve got something due soon. On a regular day, depending on how long my lunch break was and how quickly I got to work after my emails that morning, I work until somewhere between six and eight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout most days, I post on social media any book or writing news I have, like my articles being published or books I\u2019ve worked on having their pub days, getting good reviews, or winning awards. I set aside one day a month to put those updates on my website. Most of the time, that\u2019s the only publicity I worry about, as I get most of my work through referrals these days. On any given day, I may have a call or online video conference with a client, but most days, I\u2019m in front of my laptop for the vast majority of the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">Do you have any advice for English majors who are trying to figure out what comes next in their lives?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Don\u2019t be afraid to explore careers that you\u2019ve never heard of or know nothing about.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was approached by a classmate to see if I wanted to start a literary agency with her I enthusiastically said yes\u2026and only then asked what a literary agent did. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also: network, network, network. When I transitioned from agent to editorial director, and then to full-time editor and writer, I had many, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">many <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">colleagues who were also agents, editors at publishing houses, production editors, publicists, etc., who were ready to recommend me to authors, both agented and published, and those looking for representation\/publishing contracts. When I was starting out, it was the contacts I\u2019d made, the way I\u2019d treated those people, and my work that got me clients. <\/span>Don\u2019t just avoid burning bridges, but actively try to build them<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gretchen Stelter got her BA in English from Ball State in 2003. She studied in Australia before receiving an MA in professional writing from\u00a0Portland State. Since then, she has worked with writers as an agent and editor for more than a decade. 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