Writer. Editor. Book lover.
Obsessed with reading, hiking, and the search for meaning. I write books and have been a professional editor for 25 years.
About Hanemann Editorial
Her Story
My high school guidance counselor asked me what I wanted to do as a profession.
“I want to make books.” I’ve aimed my efforts toward that goal for the past thirty years.
I worked for a printer straight out of college, learning about picas, trapping, and typefaces. While I love the book-making process, I wanted to contribute to creating the words inside the book.
I then took a position at a University Press and learned the publishing side of book-making.
My next publishing job moved me out of academia into trade books where I was hired to manage the printing of marketing materials like bookmarks and the annual catalog. I learned more about publishing and held firm to my desire to contribute, not just in shaping the book as a physical product—cover, title, design—but through the actual words on the page.
I got my big break in 2006 when an associate editor position opened up on the Fiction team, and I went for it. I will never forget the day I was offered that job. I had finally made it. For the next 8 years, I edited a stable of authors who made it fun to go to work every day. I followed after trends in the marketplace and made the company loads of money.
In 2012, I left my position as Fiction Acquisitions Editor and started my own gig: Hanemann Editorial. I picked up some new skills working in nonfiction. In 2018 a company approached me to be a ghostwriter on a project and now, six years later, I have a dozen titles under my belt.
I split my time between writing other people's stories and writing my own. I've had several articles published in publications like Verily Magazine and Catholic Stand. My dream of writing words on the page has been realized. Now the dream is to have my words, inspired by The Word, foster Truth, beauty, and goodness.
No matter where the technology or trends take us, books aren't going anywhere. And the message is nigh.