Hochman Books is a literary consultancy dedicated to helping authors achieve their best and most inspired work. Owner and founder Sarah Hochman is an editor of illustrated and lifestyle books, cookbooks, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and literary fiction.

Sarah Hochman has been Editor in Chief of Blue Rider Press and Plume, divisions of Penguin Random House, and held positions previously at Simon & Schuster, W magazine, The New York Observer, and Esquire. She has acquired and edited a broad range of literary and popular fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, humor, and lifestyle books. Some of the authors she has worked with include Nicholson Baker, Bill Maher, Lesley Stahl, Parker Posey, Eddie Izzard, James Taylor, Delia Ephron, Damien Echols, David Milgrim (aka Ann Droyd), Jeff Bridges, Jean Thompson, Marisa Silver, Jewel, Chris Elliott, Adam Resnick, Simon Doonan, Amanda Brooks, A.A. Gill, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Bruce McCall, David Letterman, Annabelle Gurwitch, Ric Ocasek, Ben Schott, Penn Jillette, John Lanchester, Don Winslow, Jeffery Deaver, Howard Jacobson, Bruce Wagner, Eric Bogosian, David Rabe, Robert Littell, Jed Mercurio, Leanne Shapton, Julie Hecht, Mike Birbiglia, and Lee Israel.

Sarah Hochman offers experienced, hands-on editing and consulting services on a broad array of publishing projects, including but not limited to manuscript reading and assessment, line-editing, ghostwriting, and collaborative writing. She has expertise in all facets of book writing, editing, and production, from bringing an idea to page one to finished manuscript to bound book, as well as managing and executing complex illustrated works. A former acquisitions editor, Hochman is uniquely situated to understand the artistic and creative needs of an author, as well as those of a publishing house. Above all, she is committed at each stage of a project to producing results that reflect an author’s best work, and that inspire, entertain, and edify longtime fans and new readers at every turn.