Craig is the Manager and Outreach Coordinator for Story Perfect Editing, as well as an Assistant Senior Editor. In addition to these roles, he also works with John overseeing the company's five publishing imprints: Deep Desires Press (romance), Deep Hearts YA (LGBTQ+ YA), Dreamsphere Books (SFF), Prairie Heart Press (nonfiction), and Dreamscape Activity (adult activity books). He is also a prolific self-published author under a variety of pen names. In all of his publishing endeavors, he always strives to grow and to make each book better than the last.

One of his goals in his career is to help indie authors maximize their professionalism in order to compete with traditionally-published books and authors. He strongly believes that indie authors have a story to tell and deserve a presence in the modern publishing landscape.

On a more personal note, Craig is also John's husband. Overseen by their cats, Wizard and Shyger, they are both passionate about sustainable living. John, who handles the gardening side, manages more than 2000 square feet of soil (on 3 properties) and grows enough food to feed 3-5 people for a year, and Craig is always looking for ways to preserve and market the surplus. You can follow their adventures on: https://urbanhomesteading.ca/

Christina Bagni is an author, editor, creative writing teacher, and bisexual disaster. She loves helping fiction authors make their books shine, and believes the developmental editing process is not only the most important part of fiction writing, but can also be the most fun. She often finds key ingredients a book is missing, which, once added, make the whole thing really come together—and she has a knack for encouraging authors and making them feel excited to tackle her suggested edits, even when they require a lot of work. Her own writing can be found in The Santa Fe Literary Review, A Portrait of New England Magazine, and Writers Resist, among others—and, of course, you can find her debut novel at Deep Hearts YA. Find out more about Christina here: linktr.ee/christinabagni

Christina does actually have hobbies beyond reading and writing (though even she forgets that, sometimes). She likes rock climbing, crocheting, bachata dancing, and buying books (she insists that that’s technically a different hobby from reading). She lives in Massachusetts.

Brenda Clotildes has partnered with Story Perfect Editing Services since 2016. A voracious reader, her taste ranges from most genres of romance to literary fiction, with stops along the way for mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. She has done both developmental and copy editing on several projects, including contemporary romance, personal memoirs, and epic fantasy novels. Her gut instinct for plot, pacing, and characterization, twinned with the stamina to scrutinize every line, helps authors create manuscripts of exceptional clarity, purpose, and tension.

Brenda spent more than thirty years writing radio and television commercials which taught her the importance of making every word count. An author herself, she has published numerous contemporary romance novels.

Nick is a professional writer and the head of content marketing at a global technology firm where he manages and edits a team of international content creators.

Nick has been part of the Story Perfect team since 2017, working as a developmental editor on a range of key titles including First Tentative Steps (Deep Desires Press) and Ne’ver (Deep Hearts). As a passionate lover of LGBTQ stories, Nick is obsessed with collecting and celebrating the lost classics of gay fiction, particularly from the AIDS era. Nick’s specialty is in developmental editing, and he loves to collaborate with authors to bring their ideas to the page.

Francisco is an American author from Michigan with a Puerto Rican background. He specializes in final stage proofreading, with a keen eye for detail and sharp instincts on punctuation and grammar.

He writes young adult and new-adult fiction in various genres, and under various pen names. He has been making art since his terrible twos. The older he became, the better he became, and the more exposed he became. Aside from writing and editing, he also designs book covers, makes music, reads books, plays videos games, and dabbles with foreign languages. As a writer, editor, and reader, visual novels naturally are among his favorite types of video games, and he hopes to create one someday.

A lover of daytime soaps, sports documentaries, and 90s J-Pop, Lizette Clarke has been an editor at Story Perfect Editing since 2015. A year later, she began working for Deep Desires Press, where she served as developmental editor on Dylan James' best-selling Gay Love and Other Fairy Tales series. Her all-time favorite books are Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson, The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and the wonderfully twisted Tampa by Alissa Nutting. An accomplished writer, Lizette has written for popular interactive fiction platforms like Episode and Chapters, and is currently a ghostwriter for story app Yonder.