Helen O’Hare, Executive Editor

Helen O’Hare is an Executive Editor at Little, Brown and Mulholland Books, where she publishes upmarket and book club fiction alongside a range of clever, atmospheric, or genre-blending suspense novels. She’s drawn to stories with a clear hook and that use an element of genre to more deeply explore our own world, and always values distinctive voices, elevated writing, and emotionally driven storytelling that can sweep her up even at the end of a very long day.

She has published New York Times bestselling sensations Kerri Maniscalco and Adrian McKinty, alongside beloved book club favorites by Kellye Garrett, Elizabeth Hand, Allen Eskens, and Denise Mina, and vibrant debut novels by Paula Lichtarowicz, Susanna Hoffs, Jacquie Walters, and Alice Franklin, among others. She previously held positions at G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Viking/Penguin, and Other Press, and began as a bookseller at the Boulder Book Store and the Tattered Cover Book Stores.