I’m Meg Storey, a book editor with over twenty years of experience.

I love working with authors to help make their work the strongest it can be and their writing as polished as possible while staying true to their voice and vision. I’m a second set of eyes, a fresh perspective, and, when needed, a grammar and syntax enforcer.

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SELECTED WORK

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
“An engaging historical novel about the resilience, discoveries, and courage of women.”
— Foreword Reviews

I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur
Published by Book*hug Press

The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Pier-Vogel
Published by Book*hug Press

Junie by Chelene Knight
Published by Book*hug Press

“It’s hard to look so deeply into other people’s lives that you really understand them, except perhaps through fiction, and that is what Montemarano has done here, with deftness and subtlety.”
— The New York Times

The Senator’s Children
by Nicholas Montemarano
Published by Tin House

“A compulsive psychological thriller that concerns the dark, obsessive side of women’s friendships.”
— Foreword Reviews

The Nobodies by Alanna Schubach
Published by Blackstone Publishing

“Remarkable … [Elliott’s] dark, modern spin on Southern Gothic creates tales that surprise, shock, and sharply depict vice and virtue.”— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review — “Remarkable … [Elliott’s] dark, modern spin on Southern Gothic creates tales that surprise, shock, and sharply depict vice and virtue.”
— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

The Wilds, by Julia Elliott
Published by Tin House

“Genuinely satisfying, heart-shaking novels combine an absolute narrative authority with an apparently effortless style. You question nothing, savor every phrase and nuance, live willingly within their pages from the first word to the last … Trompe … — “Genuinely satisfying, heart-shaking novels combine an absolute narrative authority with an apparently effortless style. You question nothing, savor every phrase and nuance, live willingly within their pages from the first word to the last … Trompe l’Oeil is one such book … This novel doesn’t just ‘trompe’ the ‘oeil,’ it reinvents it.”
— New York Times Book Review

Trompe l’Oeil by Nancy Reisman
Published by Tin House

“In this accomplished, moving collection of stories about boys, [Angel] proves the uselessness of the old dictum that you should write what you know.”— New York Times — “In this accomplished, moving collection of stories about boys, [Angel] proves the uselessness of the old dictum that you should write what you know.”
— New York Times

You Only Get Letters from Jail
by Jodi Angel
Published by Tin House

“In Bystander, serious ideas and entertainment value are so intertwined as to be effectively one and the same.”
— Montreal Gazette

Bystander
by Mike Steeves
Published by Book*hug Press

“Whenever the story seems to be going one way, Balcewicz swerves on to a backroad plot, offering tightly orchestrated alternatives that skewer heart and mind.”
— Chicago Review of Books

Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz
Published by Book*hug Press

“[A] supernatural domestic thriller and a crackling tour de force in which thunderstorms propel one woman’s mind into another’s body, forcing the traveler to reconsider her own stalled life and reviving long-buried memories of her sister’s death … T… — “[A] supernatural domestic thriller and a crackling tour de force in which thunderstorms propel one woman’s mind into another’s body, forcing the traveler to reconsider her own stalled life and reviving long-buried memories of her sister’s death … Thanks to Gowdy’s electric style and vision, the result is unforgettable.”
— New York Times Book Review

Little Sister by Barbara Gowdy
Published by Tin House

Winner of the 2015 Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction“[P]owerful first novel … no matter how unexpected the course of events, each plot twist seems somehow preordained. His sentences accumulate with a calm and unmistakable authority, as if all this ha… — Winner of the 2015 Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction
“[P]owerful first novel … no matter how unexpected the course of events, each plot twist seems somehow preordained. His sentences accumulate with a calm and unmistakable authority, as if all this has happened before and is just now coming to light.”
— New York Times Book Review

The Boatmaker by John Benditt
Published by Tin House

Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell
Published
by Book*hug Press

“Psychologically complex and astute, Places Like These plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us human—love, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence.”
— CBC Books

Places Like These
by Lauren Carter
Published by Book*hug Press

Finalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction
“A stunning portrait of hardship, despair, and resilience.”
— Publishers Weekly

All Else Failed by Dana Sachs
Published by Bellevue Literary Press

“Entertaining, apocalyptic and complex.”— Globe and Mail — “Entertaining, apocalyptic and complex.”
— Globe and Mail

After James by Michael Helm
Published by Tin House

“From one of our great deadpan absurdists—a new member of the club to which George Saunders, Robert Coover, and Stanley Elkin belong—comes a book of unearthly delights that will have you, too, wondering nervously what that incessant grinding sound i… — “From one of our great deadpan absurdists—a new member of the club to which George Saunders, Robert Coover, and Stanley Elkin belong—comes a book of unearthly delights that will have you, too, wondering nervously what that incessant grinding sound is.”
— Kirkus, Starred Review

The Sleep Garden by Jim Krusoe
Published by Tin House

“An intense, riveting saga of the multiplying casualties of one family’s secrets and a girl’s determination to take control.”— Kirkus, Starred Review — “An intense, riveting saga of the multiplying casualties of one family’s secrets and a girl’s determination to take control.”
— Kirkus, Starred Review

The Scamp
by Jennifer Pashley
Published by Tin House

“Elegantly written and cleverly executed, all aimed at capturing the human condition and the often surprising content of our secret lives.” —Toronto Star — Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, Bisexual Fiction Category
“Elegantly written and cleverly executed, all aimed at capturing the human condition and the often surprising content of our secret lives.”
—Toronto Star

Just Pervs
by Jess Taylor
Published by Book*hug Press

“Dark and sexually violent, Shepard’s work can disturb —but her sharp prose and insights into the human psyche make it worth the read.” —Kirkus — “Dark and sexually violent, Shepard’s work can disturb —but her sharp prose and insights into the human psyche make it worth the read.”
—Kirkus

Kiss Me Someone by Karen Shepard
Published
by Tin House

“Baillie delivers a work of magical realism that captures the experience of postcolonial guilt … and gives voice to a silenced past. The temporal shift works perfectly, producing an effect of ghostly haunting alongside childlike wonder.”— Publishers… — “Baillie delivers a work of magical realism that captures the experience of postcolonial guilt … and gives voice to a silenced past. The temporal shift works perfectly, producing an effect of ghostly haunting alongside childlike wonder.”
— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

The Search for Heinrich Schlögel
by Martha Baillie
Published by Tin House

Shortlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize — Shortlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize
“Compellingly charts the complexity of human relationships, the illusions of memory, and the corrosive power of denial.”
—Kirkus Reviews

Polar Vortex
by Shani Mootoo
Published by Book*hug Press

“Romie Futch is imbued equally with the loopy lyricism of Barry Hannah and the wacked-out paranoia of Philip K. Dick, the joyous farce of John Kennedy Toole and the digital dystopia of William Gibson . . . . Elliott’s rambunctious tale snarls and growls on every page, aiming to plunge its lovely, gnarled tusks right into the reader’s heart.”
— New York Times Book Review

The New and Improved Romie Futch
by Julia Elliott
Published by Tin House

Winner of the 2015 Oregon Book Award for Fiction“Excellent debut novel … Her characters are deeply sympathetic and richly drawn, portrayed as struggling New Yorkers first, political outliers second.”— Los Angeles Times — Winner of the 2015 Oregon Book Award for Fiction
“Excellent debut novel … Her characters are deeply sympathetic and richly drawn, portrayed as struggling New Yorkers first, political outliers second.”
— Los Angeles Times

The Revolution of Every Day
by Cari Luna
Published by Tin House

“Both the voice and the stories it tells transcend the dusty contrivances of much historical fiction, resulting in a novel that feels both fresh and timeless.”— Kirkus, Starred Review — Winner of the 2014 Giller Prize
“Both the voice and the stories it tells transcend the dusty contrivances of much historical fiction, resulting in a novel that feels both fresh and timeless.”
— Kirkus, Starred Review

Us Conductors
by Sean Michaels
Published by Tin House

“An understated literary work with a historical underpinning, Letters to Amelia celebrates singular desires and pays homage to intimacy in the face of social scrutiny.”
— Foreword Reviews

Letters to Amelia by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
Published
by Book*hug Press

“Ghosts of Bergen County is a tough, compassionate book by a writer with a keen sense of what makes us human, and what makes us, at times, wish we weren’t. As a novel, it’s excellent; as a meditation on grief, it’s stunningly perceptive.”— NPR — “Ghosts of Bergen County is a tough, compassionate book by a writer with a keen sense of what makes us human, and what makes us, at times, wish we weren’t. As a novel, it’s excellent; as a meditation on grief, it’s stunningly perceptive.”
— NPR

Ghosts of Bergen County
by Dana Cann
Published by Tin House