Hi, I’m Lindsay.

I’ve rolled up my sleeves in nearly every corner of this business—from wearing many hats at a scrappy start-up imprint at Sourcebooks, to apprenticing under top literary agents at Writers House, to working with bestselling and award-winning authors at Simon & Schuster, Inc.  Throughout this journey, the one thing that stayed with me — no matter how high-profile the project—was my love for authors and their creativity. I wanted to be the advocate for the authors who hadn’t yet broken through— to empower talented writers with the insider perspective they often don’t have access to. That impulse led me to launch my own practice in 2019, which has since become The Book Deal Workshop.

Since launching The Book Deal Workshop, I’ve had the privilege of working with authors across genres and career stages—from first-time novelists to New York Times bestselling authors.  Now, I get to inhabit many different lives for a living.  I've spent weeks inside the world of a renowned alpinist whose life was saved by skiing; turned a professional comedian’s heartbreak into healing laughter; shaped a proposal around the nation’s biggest stolen artifacts case with the former head of the FBI Art Crime division. I’ve dug into the stories of documentary filmmakers, health and wellness leaders, Emmy and Peabody award winners, and even the first lawyer for the Burning Man festival.  Every manuscript is a different world—and that’s the part that never gets old.

No matter the project, my end goal with every client is the same: a book where they’re proud to have their name on the cover.  Not just publishable – but theirs.  To get there, I help them strengthen their manuscript, refine their positioning, and guide them along the path to publication — always using the author’s vision as our North Star along the way.

And it’s working, too. My clients have gone on to sign with leading literary agencies like Aevitas Creative Management, Levine Greenburg Rostan, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, and Stephanie Tade Agency, among others. Their work has been published by Big Five houses, named finalists in high-profile writing competitions, and featured in major media outlets.

When my nose isn’t in a manuscript, you’ll likely find me outdoors—tending to our small family farm or heading out on a multi-day hiking excursion in the PNW. Otherwise, I’m immersed in creative pursuits, singing with my local choir or happily making paintings and pottery purely for my own enjoyment.