“I
have rarely worked with an editor who is so adept…”
—Jill
Kramer, Editorial
Director, Hay House
tephanie
Gunning is a bestselling author, editor, and
publishing consultant specializing primarily in books
on the topics of health, spirituality, personal growth,
and new thought. Her creative endeavors are dedicated
to individual empowerment and the conscious evolution
of humankind. “Working with visionary thinkers gives
me an advanced education in human potential,” Stephanie
says. “Each day they inspire me to contribute my
own talents and message to the world, as best as I am
able.”
“A
dream to work with
...”
—Hale
Dwoskin,
author of the New York Times bestseller The
Sedona Method and featured in "The Secret"
“I
am thankful to Stephanie for helping me take the complexities
of science and transform them into the joy of empowering
wisdom!”
—Gregg
Braden, author
of the New York Times bestsellers The God Code, The Isaiah Effect, and The Divine Matrix
For over twenty-five years, Stephanie has worked in numerous capacities
within the book publishing industry, including as an in-house
editor, a behind-the-scenes book “doctor,”
and an editorial consultant to several major literary
agencies. After graduating from Amherst College in 1984,
she launched her publishing career in New York City, rapidly
rising through the editorial ranks at HarperCollins Publishers,
then being recruited as a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday
Dell, and ultimately establishing an independent business
as an editor, collaborative writer, and publishing consultant
in 1996. Her elite roster of clients has included well-established
publishing firms, innovative small presses, and respected
literary agencies: Hay House, New World Library, Harmony Books, Jodere Group,
Sedona Press, aha! Process, Three Rivers Press, FinePrint Literary Management, Imprint
Agency, The Ford Group, Nine Muses &
Apollo, and Lowenstein-Morel Associates, among others.
“An
exceptional writer ...”
—Ruby
K. Payne, PhD,
author of the national bestseller A Framework
for Understanding Poverty
Stephanie
is one of the most sought-after nonfiction writers in
the publishing industry and a well-regarded book proposal coach
(for a 2010 application for the Get a Book Dealâ„¢ Book Proposal Coaching Program
click here).
She is the coauthor or ghostwriter
of over 15 published books, and has more in the pipeline.
Her essays have been featured in the anthologies More
Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul, Hot Chocolate
for the Mystical Teenage Soul, Magical Souvenirs,
and Angel Visions. Respected and beloved for
her boundless enthusiasm and energy, razor-sharp intelligence
and insight, good humor and integrity, as much as for
her incredible talent and skill, throughout her career
she has worked with numerous bestselling authors: Hale
Dwoskin, Gregg Braden, Frank Lipman, Ruby Payne, Thomas Moore, Stephen
Mitchell, Marlo Morgan, and Ruth Montgomery, to name a
few. Currently, she resides in New York City.