About Stephanie Gunning

Stephanie Gunning is a Publishing Consultant, Book Marketing Strategist, Author, and Workshop Leader. One of the most sought-after nonfiction book writers and developmental editors in the publishing industry, she is founder of the Get a Book Deal® Coaching Program. Stephanie also regularly delivers workshops, webinars, and in-depth courses on book writing, publishing, entrepreneurship, and creativity.

For twenty-eight years, Stephanie has worked in numerous capacities within the book publishing industry, including as an in-house acquisitions editor, a behind-the-scenes book “doctor,” and an editorial consultant to several major literary agencies.

After graduating from Amherst College in 1984, she launched her publishing career in New York City, rapidly rising through the editorial ranks at HarperCollins Publishers, then being recruited as a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, and ultimately establishing an independent business as an editor, collaborative writer, and publishing consultant in 1996. Her elite roster of clients has included bestselling authors, major publishing firms, top-caliber literary agencies, and innovative self-publishers. In 2012, she co-founded the book packaging company Lincoln Square Books to help self-published author take full advantage of a mixture of print and digital publishing opportunities.

As the co-author and ghostwriter of twenty-five books of her own, she has been published by Hay House, New World Library, J.P. Tarcher, Perigee, Harmony Books, McGraw-Hill, Jossey Bass, Three Rivers Press, New Page Press, and Broadway Books, among other houses.

Respected and beloved for her boundless enthusiasm and energy, razor-sharp intelligence and insight, good humor and integrity, as much as for her incredible talent and skill, throughout her career she has been privileged to work with leading new thought, spirituality, health, and self-help authors, such as Gregg Braden, Hale Dwoskin, Arielle Ford, Ruby Payne, Thomas Moore, Stephen Mitchell, Marlo Morgan, and Ruth Montgomery, to name a few.

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