Diane Young

I am a professional book editor who has worked in-house or on a freelance basis for many publishers. I began my career at Coach House Press more than thirty years ago and resigned from my most recent position—Editorial Director at Dundurn Press—about ten years ago. Along the way, I edited a wide range of authors across many genres. Today, I often work with aspiring authors who are hoping to place their fiction with a traditional publisher.

I have been fortunate to edit many award-winning and shortlisted books, including Bill Wodhams’s
Thirty Feet Under (shortlisted for the 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Best Unpublished Crime Novel Award), M.Z. Urlocker’s The Man From Mittelwerk (shortlisted for the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada First Novel Award), Ray Bazowski’s The Future (winner of the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Best Unpublished Manuscript Award), Elle Wild’s Strange Things Done (2017 Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award and 2015 Unhanged Arthur for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel), and Pamela Mordecai’s Red Jacket (finalist for the 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize). 

Examples of recently edited fiction for publishers include Sue Sorensen’s
After Buster (Dundurn), Aga Maksimowska’s Becalming (Dundurn), Bill Wodhams’s
Thirty Feet Under (ECW), Eddy Boudel Tan’s The Rebellious Tide (Dundurn Press), and Craig Shreve’s The African Samurai (Simon & Schuster).

For more information, visit www.dianeyoungassociates.com or view my profile on LinkedIn. You can also reach me by email at
editor@dianeyoungassociates.com