Allison Alexander

A.E. Creative

Allison Alexander is a freelance book editor, writer, and artist based in Canada. She has a BA in English, a certificate in Publishing, and ten years of experience working with authors. After being employed at a newspaper, a magazine, and a small press, her love of stories led her to start her own business.

Allison edits fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and mystery novels for middle grade and up, and her superpowers are untangling plot threads, strengthening character arcs, and deepening worldbuilding. As a chronically ill, queer woman, she cheers on diversity and representation of marginalized identities in all fiction, and she works with conscious language and inclusivity in mind. In her free time, she binge-watches Stargate with her supportive partner, reads, paints, crochets, and plays video games.

Allison is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, an editor for Revise & Resub (#RevPit), and a co-host of The Worldbuilder’s Tavern podcast. She also shares insights about writing, querying, and publishing genre fiction in her newsletter, Editor’s Alchemy. 

AGE CATEGORIES

• Middle Grade
• Young Adult
• New Adult
• Adult

FAVOURITE SUBGENRES

• Fantasy: adventure, dark, fairy tales, mythological, science fantasy
• Sci-Fi: apocalyptic, hard, litRPG, soft, space opera
• Horror: cosmic, eco-horror, psychological, supernatural, survival
• Mystery: cozy, detective stories, paranormal, puzzle, soft-boiled

SHE ESPECIALLY LOVES…

• Amateur sleuths
• Animal companions
• Disability rep
• Genre mashups
• Monsters
• Puzzles
• Quests
• Rivals to friends or lovers
• Sentient spaceships
• Unusual magic systems

SHE’S NOT A GOOD FIT FOR…

• AI-written books
• Erotica
• Historical fiction
• Literary fiction
• Novels-in-verse
• Picture books
• Slasher, gory, body, or extreme horror
• Sexual assault scenes

https://aealexander.com/

Years in the field: 10
Years freelancing: 4