Our Story

New Moon Editorial is the brainchild of Founder and Editorial Director Elana Seplow-Jolley, an editor with a decade of experience in the publishing world.

Prior to founding New Moon Editorial, Founder and Editorial Director Elana Seplow-Jolley worked as an editor for Ballantine Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, where she edited New York Times bestselling historical and suspense fiction, thrillers, literary fiction, women’s fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and new age literature.

Notable recent work includes The Hollywood Spy by New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal, The Better Liar by debut novelist Tanen Jones, and Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by NEA fellow Toni Jensen. Before her time at Penguin Random House, Elana worked as Managing Editor of Other Press and, before that, at Regina Ryan Books—as well as at Modern Books and Elwin Street Productions in London.

Elana has lived and breathed the written word since college: After graduating cum laude from Barnard College at Columbia University, she received her master’s degree in Early Modern English Literature from Oxford University. She is a native New Yorker and a prize-winning poet whose work has most recently been published in The Brazenhead Review and Five Dials Magazine alongside Booker Prize winners Ali Smith and Lydia Davis. New Moon Editorial is based in Brooklyn.

Our Process

We believe that storytelling is one of the most important, most powerful things we can do as humans. It has the power to mark the passage of time—even as it immortalizes events and people in the moments it captures.  Whatever your story is, we’re here to help you tell it in its truest, most compelling form.

Everyone deserves to make their voice heard—it’s no small undertaking and it’s alright to need help. As an editorial service, we will meet you where you are. Whether you feel like you’re at the beginning of the editorial journey with your book or you’re feeling blocked and need a fresh perspective, we’re here to light the way. Because we know the best version of your book already exists inside you, we can work directly with your text, write you letters, assign you reading that will get help connect your brain and your heart. We’ll even coach you and use divinatory methods like Tarot and Jungian shadow work if that’s your language. We’re here for you—so send us a message and let’s get to work. 

Our Commitment

Deeply committed to diversity, we have worked with LGBTQ and BIPOC authors on a broad range of projects, from queer noir to indigenous memoir. We seek to support authors however we can and meet you where you are to tell the stories that need to be told.