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 and 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. Her last published collaboration, The Invisible Machine (BenBella Books, 2024), won the National Indie Excellence Award in the psychiatry/psychology category and was a non-fiction runner-up in the PenCraft Book Award for writing.
Holly, owner of Lorincz Literary Services since 2010, is a successful collaborative writer and editor. She has had multiple collaborative titles traditionally published and edited hundreds of books professionally, working directly with publishers, established authors, and debut writers. Her specialty is developmental editing for both fiction and non-fiction. Among her editing clients are well-known authors who return for 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 understands the industry and the market—she was a literary agent at MacGregor Literary Agency for three years. Most importantly, she is an empathetic writing, speaking, and publishing instructor versed in the art of creating, not just critiquing. Holly teaches at various conferences around the U.S. and Canada, but she was also a high school and college writing instructor for fifteen years, earning state and national recognition as an educator while coaching her small-town debate team to two state championships and nine individual champions.
Holly enjoys working with words and stories. And people. Before teaching, she served as editor of Perceptions Literary Magazine and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Oregon Humanities Magazine. You can find her most days in Manzanita, Oregon, at the Cloud and Leaf Bookstore; she is the proud owner and loving curator.