The Founders
We have decreed that a writer shall be a writer, even if they have not a single follower.
Deborah Natelson
CEO
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Sarah Awa
COO
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The Band of Merry Folk
Without whom we'd be not just wandering, but lost.
Nadia Erelis
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Oscar Awa
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Christopher Light
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Ryan O'Byrne
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Our Story
According to the Ohio Business Registrar, Thinklings Books, LLC, was founded in July of 2019.
But really, it went like this:
But really, it went like this:
Or to put it the more ordinary way . . .
Thinklings Books started out when three speculative-fiction-loving professional editors—Deborah Natelson, Sarah Awa, and Jeannie Ingraham—got together and formed a writing group. We called ourselves the Thinklings, in honor of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’s group, the Inklings.
Over time, we found ourselves agonizing more and more about how messed-up the publishing industry had become. Why couldn’t good books get published? Why were so many bad books published just because their authors had big Twitter followings? We wished there were something we could do about the problem . . . and then we realized there was.
As a substantive/line editor, a proofreader, and a developmental editor, the three of us knew good writing when we saw it—and we knew how to make it even better. We had a lot of experience walking our clients through the publishing process—both traditional and self-publish—and we had contacts with marketing and design experts. We had some amazing unpublished books lined up and ready for production. We had, in fact, everything we needed to make a great publishing company. All that was left was to actually do it.
So we’re doing it.
Spectacular Reads. Every Time.
Thinklings Books started out when three speculative-fiction-loving professional editors—Deborah Natelson, Sarah Awa, and Jeannie Ingraham—got together and formed a writing group. We called ourselves the Thinklings, in honor of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’s group, the Inklings.
Over time, we found ourselves agonizing more and more about how messed-up the publishing industry had become. Why couldn’t good books get published? Why were so many bad books published just because their authors had big Twitter followings? We wished there were something we could do about the problem . . . and then we realized there was.
As a substantive/line editor, a proofreader, and a developmental editor, the three of us knew good writing when we saw it—and we knew how to make it even better. We had a lot of experience walking our clients through the publishing process—both traditional and self-publish—and we had contacts with marketing and design experts. We had some amazing unpublished books lined up and ready for production. We had, in fact, everything we needed to make a great publishing company. All that was left was to actually do it.
So we’re doing it.
Spectacular Reads. Every Time.
