Services Offered:

Editorial Assessment
Authenticity Reading

Preferred Age Level & Genre of Expertise:

Young Adult and New Adult in the following genres: contemporary/realistic (dark & messy more than light & humorous), science fiction (“soft” sci-fi & near-future sci-fi), fantasy (urban/contemporary fantasy, high fantasy, & quest-centered fantasy), and thriller/mystery. She also enjoys romance and queer protagonists across genres.

More About Trisha…

Trisha Tobias (she/her) is an associate developmental editor at YA book packager Dovetail Fiction and a 2019-2021 Highlights Foundation Diversity Fellow. Previously, she has been an associate fiction editor for FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology, a 2018 Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, a YA editorial intern at Page Street Publishing, and a Pitch Wars mentor.

She holds a BA in Media and Communications Studies with a minor in Creative Writing from Fordham University. Since 2016, Trisha has been freelance editing young adult and new adult manuscripts, working collaboratively with writers to bring out the best in their work.

Offline, Trisha can be found listening to plenty of K-Pop, reading too many self-help books, and inspecting everyone’s natal charts.

Trisha is available for authenticity reads regarding Black/African American women, anxiety, depression, restrictive eating disorders, interracial relationships (Black/white), and sexual assault. She is not the right editor for horror, historical fiction, superhero stories, extreme gore, or sports-centric narratives.

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Favorite Books:

• We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

• You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone by Rachel Lynn Solomon

• Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

• Far from You by Tess Sharpe

• The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

• Pointe by Brandy Colbert

• The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

• Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

• Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas

• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

• Across the Universe by Beth Revis

• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

Favorite TV Shows:

Glee, Bridgerton, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Criminal Minds, Bob’s Burgers