About Anjuli Rose Editorial

It was a cold, dreary weekend in 2018, when I attended the Portland Book Festival in Oregon with my aunt. We were walking the expo floor after a wonderful author presentation when it hit me. The full expression of who I am was getting lost to time. Despite having grown a 15+ year career in specialty coffee into a desirable business development role, I was miserable.

I can remember the very first day of my undergrad education; declaring my English major even while my advisor advised that I take at least a semester to decide. Having grown up in my family’s bookstore, Harry W. Schwartz, I knew—I knew, even as a dreamy eyed first-semester freshman—that I wanted to spend my life working within the context of literature.

I spent four delightful years engrossed in literary criticism courses including an entire quarter reading Margaret Atwood and another deeply dissecting Dante’s Inferno. But life got complicated after graduation, and I was suddenly on a one-way flight out west to Seattle. Once there, I set down roots in the coffee industry, event production, and business development. After almost a decade, I found myself in an upper management role, leading teams nationally and striving toward goals within the cutthroat office coffee industry.

But something was missing. So, after many long conversations about what to do, my partner and I agreed I should leave my work and recommit myself to my first passion—words.

Over the last two years since deciding to leave my job, I have had the absolute joy to write over 200K words of my own manuscripts, earn an editing certificate from the University of Washington, and work closely with a number of authors and business owners. I want nothing more than to help you bring your voice, vision, and story to life with the written word. Are you ready?