Jeri Smith Youness, Editor

Jeri Smith Youness is a former acquisitions editor and cover copywriter for Macmillan, Berkley, Silhouette and Penguin USA in New York City. She has taught romance writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and has worked as an evaluation editor for Romantic Times in New York for over ten years. She is the author of three gothic novels, LEGACY OF HUNTER HOUSE, WITCH TREE INN and THE HAUNTING OF VICTORIA, which won the Bookrak Best-selling Gothic award. She conducts writing workshops at annual romance writing conferences where she leads authors in creating rough drafts of their story ideas. Under her mentoring, Jeri has helped many first-time writers get published. She recently attended the first Historical Novel Society in Salt Lake City where she critiqued historical romance novels for first-time novelists. Today, Jeri is an editor for New Concepts Publishing and is currently looking for Paranormal, Fantasy, Sci-fi/ Futuristic that are spicy or erotic, Historical romance (not Western). She will consider Romantic Suspense and Contemporary Romance, as long as they are well researched and well written.