Hilary Liftin has collaborated on eleven NYT bestselling books and counting.
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS
Hilary Liftin collaborates with authors to write books that are true to their voices and stories. For more information see her bio.
Hilary works closely, organically, and in collaboration with her authors to develop a written voice that feels natural and true. For more information, please see her bio and if you’re interested in hiring Hilary, please contact her.
Here are some of the kind words clients have said about Hilary.
“Hilary was excellent in every way: indefatigable, responsive, extremely creative but unfailingly willing and able to work within the author’s voice and my structural and narrative/polemical requirements.”
--Eamon Dolan, VP, Executive Editor, Simon & Schuster
“We are a true team. I don’t think there’s any kind of book we couldn’t do together. Through all of it Hilary is my rock.”
-–Tori Spelling
“Hilary is a dream collaborator. Infinitely patient, dogged, punctual, and funny. She’s a tremendous writer and incredibly fast! Why haven’t you hired her yet?”
-–Lauren Spiegel, Executive Editor, Gallery Books
“Hilary Liftin is a skilled and gifted writer and a wonderful collaborator. She has that uncanny ability to take a thought, a word or a sentence fragment and to work it into strong and compelling text. I loved working with Hilary – she is witty and insightful. She knows when to let an idea rest and when to push for more detail or greater clarification to make a piece shine. She loves deadlines and never misses one. I loved our collaboration – my books are the better for her word craft and contribution.”
-–Peter Walsh
“Hilary Liftin is on our very short A-list of collaborators. We know that if she’s on a project, it will be superbly written, on time, and both the client and publisher will be over the moon. Working with her is a delight.”
-–Jennifer Bergstrom, Publisher, Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books
ABOUT
Hilary Liftin is a ghostwriter/collaborator specializing in celebrity memoir. Since 2006 she has worked on fifteen books, ten of which hit the New York Times bestseller list. STORI TELLING by Tori Spelling was a #1 New York Times nonfiction bestseller, stayed on the list for 19 weeks, and won the 2009 Bravo A-List Award for Best Celebrity Autobiography. MILES TO GO by Miley Cyrus was a #1 New York Times children’s bestseller. Other bestselling titles include HIGH ON ARRIVAL by Mackenzie Phillips and IT’S ALL TOO MUCH by Peter Walsh.
Hilary has also written three books under her own name. The first, DEAR EXILE, is letters that she exchanged with her co-author, Kate Montgomery, when Kate was in the Peace Corps in Kenya and Hilary was in New York. It was published by Vintage in 1999 and is still in print. CANDY AND ME: A Love Story is Hilary’s memoir told through different kinds of candy. See press.
Hilary grew up in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Yale College, where she was editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. Before becoming a full-time writer in 2006, Hilary worked in the publishing industry for ten years, holding positions in editorial, marketing, and business development at Houghton Mifflin, Barnes & Noble.com, and the ebook division of Time Warner Books (now Hachette). She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.
MOVIE STAR BY LIZZIE PEPPER is her first novel.