Lisa Rector-Maass, Editor

Lisa Rector-Maass is an award-winning writer and independent editor in New York City.

At 17, she became the youngest writer at BC Woman magazine in Vancouver, Canada. Lisa has since worked as a journalist, publicist, agent and editor. She has served on the Surrey International Writers’ Conference committee and teaches fiction and editing workshops worldwide.

Through her company, Editing Express, Lisa helps authors develop, revise and polish their work. She specializes in late stage story development, intensive brainstorming techniques and the third draft. She works primarily with thriller, mystery and suspense writers as well as authors of women’s, mainstream and literary fiction.

"It's exciting to see a book take shape, to become what you envision it could be in the early drafts."