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Manuscript evaluations, structural editing, line-editing, consulting, and other book-doctor services, specializing in crime, suspense, and thriller fiction. Clients include novelists, literary agents, and publishers.

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Ed Stackler spent more than seven years working as an editor for St. Martin's Press and New American Library (NAL), two of the major trade publishers in New York City. At NAL, he discovered and began editing the work of New York Times-bestselling novelist Greg Iles. A native of Idaho and graduate of Stanford University and the Radcliffe Publishing Course, Ed Stackler founded Stackler Editorial in 1996.

 

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List of published clients and novels

List of published clients and novels:

Greg Iles (Mississippi BloodNatchez Burning, The Bone Tree, Mississippi Blood, and Cemetery Road, HarperCollins; The Devil's Punchbowl, Footprints of GodBlood MemoryTurning Angel, True Evil, and Third Degree, Scribner; Spandau PhoenixBlack CrossMortal Fear, The Quiet Game, 24 Hours, Dead Sleep, and Sleep No More, Penguin/Putnam): all New York Times bestsellers

Alex Finlay 

Andrew Bridgeman

Matthew FitzSimmons 

William Myers 

Ben Coes 

Jeffrey Siger 

James W. Hall 

Andrew Mayne 

Steve Alten (Meg, Doubleday; The Trench, Kensington; Domain and Resurrection, Tor Books)

  • Meg adapted into 2018 blockbuster movie The Meg 

Adam Mitzner 

Todd Merer 

 

Alan McDermott 

Reece Hirsch

Charlie Newton 

Royce Prouty (Stoker's Manuscript, Putnam)

 

  • Publishers Weekly "Signature" boxed review

  • 2013 Bram Stoker Award nominee for Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Carolyn Haines  


Andrew Peterson 

John Connell 

Michael W. Sherer 

Ridley Pearson 

Anderson Harp  

Webb Hubbell  

 

Ed Kovacs  

Mark Nykanen 

Mark Alpert

Jeffrey B. Burton 

Jutta Profijt 

Paul McEuen 

R. B. Chesterton 

Jeremy Wagner 

Tim Downs 

Laura Joh Rowland 

Tom Grace

Humphrey Hawksley 

Tucker Malarkey 

David Dun

Richard Cox 

Holly Kennedy 

Eliot Pattison

Tim Watts

Richard Weber 

Kirk Russell 

Jerry Kennealy 

James Francis 

Richard Golub

Walt Becker

SELF-PUBLISHED SUCCESSES:

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Tom Turner

E.J. Simon

G. M. Lawrence 

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