Here are some books Martine Bellen has worked on:

After earning a graduate degree in creative writing at Brown University in 1988, Martine Bellen, a poet, began working on the literary journal Conjunctions. For over ten years she was senior editor and is now a contributing editor. Ms. Bellen started out in book publishing at Henry Holt and Company and then worked as an editor at Carroll & Graf Publishers. At these publishing houses she edited and acquired books by numerous, successful authors including Denise Mina (she was the first to publish this award-wining crime writer in the U.S.), who is presently published by Little, Brown; the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Maureen Howard; and Amanda Filipacchi (author of Nude Men, Vapor, and Love Creeps). Six years ago, Ms. Bellen went into business for herself as an independent editor and bookdoctor. Since that time she has had the opportunity to work with established novelists and nonfiction writers, as well as emerging talent and innovative thinkers and professionals who are writing first books or book proposals. 

 Clients have included:

• Michael Meyer, author of THE YEAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and Chief Speechwriter for the General Secretary of the U.N., Ban Ki-Moon
• John Butman, co-writer for bestselling books such as REAL BOYS: RESCUING OUR SONS FROM THE MYTHS OF BOYHOOD
• Rilla Askew, 2009 Academy Award in Literature winner and author of award-winning novels such as FIRE IN BEULAH
• Rosario Ferré, author of award-winning novels such as THE HOUSE ON THE LAGOON
• Laura Day, author of bestselling books such as PRACTICAL INTUITION
• Doug Marlette, Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist and author of highly acclaimed novels such as MAGIC TIME