Collaborist is exclusively owned and run by two human beings dedicated to helping other humans tell their stories. Whether it’s a memoir or a novel or a guide helping others navigate their lives, we bring our lived in lives to meet you where you are to figure out what you want to say and how to most effectively say it. We talk about your project, sometimes we mark it up in red pen, other times we help write it for you. Sometimes we are accountability partners and coaches helping you understand craft, walking through your book before you write it.

Collaborist is co-owned by Jason Buchholz and Ben LeRoy, longtime friends and associates in the editing and publishing worlds. Their partnership began more than a decade ago, when Ben, who was then the founder and publisher at Tyrus Books, published Jason’s first novel, A Paper Son. When Tyrus Books was sold to Simon & Schuster, it meant Jason had to find a new publisher, but it also meant they could go into business together, combining their passion, enthusiasm, and expertise to develop and amplify the voices of other authors.

They’ve worked together on countless books across a range of genres, including novels, memoirs, prescriptive nonfiction, and personal development. They don’t believe in one-size-fits-all approaches, so they tailor their services for every project, working in concert with their authors to bring deliberate, artful literature into the world.