Holly Lorincz
Editor and Founder
A member in good standing with the Editorial Freelancers Association, Holly Lörincz holds an MAT with a focus in language arts, as well as a degree in journalism. Her first novel, Smart Mouth, won the 2014 Bronze National Independent Publishers Book Award and has been optioned for a TV series with Foxworthy Productions.
Holly is a successful collaborative writer. Her collaborative books of note are:
Arsenal of Hope with Jenn Satterly, is releasing Feb. 23, 2021, with Post Hill/ Simon and Schuster. Crown Heights, an official Amazon bestseller in biography/memoir for six months, was used to launch Amazon’s Imprint Kindle Singles, December 2017. A novel, The Everything Girl with L. Maliki, released August 2018, Skyhorse Publishing, and has movie interest. The Duke and I, another novel, is in production and is the first in a two-book collaborative deal with reality TV star Evelyn Lozada and St. Martin’s Press (Spring 2019). More titles can be found in bookstores and on Amazon: How To Survive a Day in Prison (2017, with John Fuller and Skyhorse Publishing), Step By Step Pitches And Proposals: A Workbook For Writers and the companion How Do I Find A Literary Agent? And 101 Other Questions Asked By Writers(with Literary Agent Chip MacGregor, 2015, Benchmark Press).
Holly Lörincz has been editing books and professional text for twenty years, though she officially established Lorincz Literary Services in 2010. Her specialty is developmental editing, for fiction and non-fiction, as well as collaborative writing. She was pretty dang excited in January 2018, when she found herself ranked:
Among her editing clients are well-known authors who come back with repeat business, such as Deborah Reed, Jennifer Lauck, Vincent Zandri, and Ann Tatlock.
Her edited manuscripts have been picked up by agents and traditional publishers, and won multiple awards, including the Writer’s Digest Mark of Quality, the 2014 USA Best Book Awards (Cliff of the Ruin), the 2015 Christy Award for fiction (Once Beyond a Time), the ITW Thriller Award and Shamus Award (Dick Moonlight PI series), New York Times and USA Today bestseller list (The Shroud Key), and #1 selling thriller in Amazon ebooks, worldwide, for at least three weeks (Everything Burns), just to name a few.
Holly works closely with the renowned MacGregor Literary Agency, where she was a literary agent for three years. She understands the industry and the market. She is a writer, which means she empathizes strongly with her clients. She is a writing, speaking, and publishing instructor, versed in the art of creating, not just critiquing. Holly teaches quarterly workshops as a visiting instructor at The Blackbird Studio for Writers, run by the famous New York Times Bestselling author Jennifer Lauck, and travels to various conferences around the U.S. and Canada. She was a high school and college writing instructor for fifteen years, earning state and national recognition as an educator while also coaching her small town debate team to two state championships, with nine individual champions. Before teaching, she did a stint as the editor ofPerceptions Literary Magazine, and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board at Oregon Humanities Magazine.
She knows words and she enjoys working with them. And people.