Ashley Strosnider

Editing is behind-the-scenes work, and the best of it is often invisible. Because editing is a confidential collaboration, I don’t share marked-up manuscripts. What I can share are published books I’ve worked on, a few of which are highlighted below. Curious to see my editing in action, track changes and all? I’d be glad to provide a short custom sample—just get in touch.

A selection of books I’ve collaborated on

spanning fiction, nonfiction, and memoir

Book cover of All This Can Be True by Jen Michalski featuring a truck with a camper topper driving through a desert landscape.
fiction • line edit • 2024
Book cover of Stuck in Manistique by Dennis Cuesta, showing a tall black lighthouse against a blue sky with clouds.
fiction • copy edit • 2018
Book cover of The Sun-Greeters by Jen Ghastin, featuring a labyrinth of bold concentric circles in orange, teal, and gold radiating like sunbursts.”
fiction • manuscript eval • 2021
Book cover of Mental Fitness: Maximizing Mood, Motivation, & Mental Wellness by Optimizing the Brain-Body-Biome by Shawn M. Talbott, PhD, CNS, LDN, FACSM, FACN, with illustrations of a brain, heart, and gut in blue, orange, and green.
nonfiction • line edit • 2021
Book cover of The Appetite Factory by Jon Gingerich, featuring a wide-open mouth against a red textured cityscape background.
fiction • line edit • 2021
Book cover of Hidden History of Milwaukee by Robert Tanzilo, with a black-and-white image of clock tower gears as if seen from the inside.
nonfiction • proofread • 2014
Book cover of Paradise, WV by Rob Rufus, showing a snake coiled against a small-town backdrop.
fiction • copy edit • 2020
Book cover of All the Love by Kim Hooper, Meredith Resnick, and Huong Diep, featuring delicate pink flowers and a yellow butterfly on a pale blue background.
nonfiction • copy edit • 2020
Book cover of Rapid City Summer by Connie Richardson, showing two teenagers standing in water, fishing poles in hand, wearing backpacks.
YA fiction • manuscript eval • 2022
Book cover of Original Sin: From Preacher's Kid to the Creation of CinemaSins by Jeremy Scott, featuring a childhood photo of a boy holding a red flower with devil horns added as a doodle, stylized to resemble a YouTube video with play progress bar and like or downvote buttons.
memoir • line edit • 2021
Book cover of Sink or Shine: Attract Clients and Talent with the Brightness of Your Mission by Adam H. Michaels with Dayna Williams, with bold black text over a bright yellow diagonal beam emitting from a grayscale lighthouse.
fiction • developmental edit • 2018
Book cover of Terms and Conditions by Helen J. Darling, showing the back view of a woman in a floral blouse with her hair in a bun, holding her phone behind her back.
fiction • developmental edit • 2018
Book cover of American Animals: A True Crime Memoir by Eric Borsuk, with a flamingo in the style of John James Audubon wearing jail stripes and a ball and chain.
memoir • copy edit • 2021
Book cover of Blue Hour Homecoming: Finding Life on the Fringes of Reproduction by Alle Muldick, with two silhouetted female figures layered over abstract blue and gold textures.
memoir • manuscript eval • 2023
Book cover of Tiny by Kim Hooper, with vivid rainbow-colored road lines stretching into a glowing pink and orange horizon.
fiction • copy edit • 2019
Book cover of Your Next Big Idea: Improve your Creativity and Problem-Solving by Samuel Sanders, with a glowing lightbulb painted in vivid rainbow colors to resemble a hot air balloon holding a figure of a person catching falling stars in a net, against a navy background.
nonfiction • line edit • 2018
Book cover of New-Generation African Poets, TATU: A Chapbook Box Set edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, with vibrant abstract portraits in bold reds, blues, and yellows.
poetry • project management • 2016
Box set view of The Mission Inn-possible Mysteries books 1 through 6 by Rosie A. Point, a pastel-colored box set featuring cupcakes and playful typography.
fiction • copy edit • 2021
Book cover of The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape by Terry Roberts, featuring a woman lying on the floor holding folded money.
fiction • line edit • 2023
Book cover of Endometriosis: A Guide for Girls by Tamer Seckin, with a bright watercolor silhouette of a figure in pink, purple, and green, wearing white headphones,
nonfiction • copy edit • 2019
Book cover of In the Catbird Seat by Brian Baxter with Mike Wolf, featuring an overhead view of a black bowl of artfully arranged food, including edible flowers.
cookbook/memoir • line edit • 2023
Book cover of Cover Your Tracks by Daco S. Auffenorde, showing a view from high above a snowy forest with two tiny figures of people.
fiction • line edit • 2020
Book cover of Motorbikes and Camels by Nejoud Al-Yagout, with simple black and white typography on a yellow box overlaid atop a cracked white and gray background resembling the asphalt of a road.
fiction • copy edit • 2018
Book cover of The Escape of Light by Fred Venturini, with a silhouetted figure of a student seen from the back wearing a hoodie and a backpack as if walking away, against radiating orange and blue rays.
YA fiction • line edit • 2019
Book cover of Hollywoodski by Lou Mathews, with mountains silhouetted against an orange sky.
fiction • line edit • 2024
Book cover of One Potato by Tyler McMahon, depicting a man in a suit with a potato for a head standing in a field with crossed arms.
fiction • line edit • 2021
Book cover of Fight Me by Austin Grossman, with bold red and yellow graphics resembling half a superhero mask.
fiction • line edit • 2019
Book cover of Before Anyone Else by Leslie Hooton, with bold black text set against an abstract background of colorful paint splatters resembling confetti.
fiction • line edit • 2020
Book cover of Another Kingdom by Andrew Klavan, showing a sword in a diamond frame, with a mirrored city skyline in red and purple tones, reminiscent of a playing card.
fiction • line edit • 2018
Book cover of Only in Old Kentucky: Historic True Tales of Cultural Ingenuity by Marshall Myers, with a collage of vintage photographs surrounding the title banner.
nonfiction • proofread • 2014