I’m Stacy, the millennial with late-diagnosed ADHD behind Red Pen Romance—armed with a sharp eye for detail, overly verbose communication style, and a lifelong hyper-fixation on finding that one lingering typo.

Since I was around eight years old, I’ve been passionate about writing and editing—sharing my thoughts (via various blogs like every other person who lived through the aughts) or penning stories and plays I probably (most certainly) over-edited.

My college education was focused entirely on storytelling: a Bachelor’s in Theater playwriting, and four years packed with film, English literature, and creative writing courses. (Dialogue writing and learning how punctuation could make or break a moment of tension was—and still is—a particular passion of mine.)

Like so many 2008 recession survivors, I fell less-than-enthusiastically into the corporate world. For the last eighteen years professionally, I have worked in quality management, technical editing, compliance, and document control—a.k.a. jobs built around catching inconsistencies, fixing problems before they become bigger problems, and making sure things are polished, organized, and readable while facing tight timelines and extremely high stakes.

Somewhere along the way, all of that collided with my love of romance novels and indie publishing. I am utterly thrilled to finally be working with writers and helping to tell the stories I love to read.

<3 Stacy

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