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Our Book Editors

Our team of professional book editors specialise in all fiction genres across adult, children’s, middle grade, and Young Adult manuscripts, plus non-fiction projects, including memoirs.

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Getting feedback from an experienced external editor is the best way to improve a manuscript. Traditional publishers have always relied on the personal interaction between editor and author as a way to hone their works. Modern digital-first publishers use the exact same model. The best self-published authors all employ third-party editors too.
And that same service is available to you to, with standards that meet or exceed the quality threshold of the world’s Big 5 publishers.
If you want to dive straight into a review of our editors, you can do so here [ANCHOR LINK: to editor search]. Otherwise, read on to understand what editors do, what you need to do – and how to find the editor that’s going to be right for you and your book.

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Book editing isn’t a single process. At a large commercial publisher, a single manuscript will go through at least three editorial stages, and maybe more. You almost certainly don’t need that level of input, but you do need to know what the different services are, so you can understand what’s right for you.

Almost all writers should start with manuscript assessment. It’s quite likely to be the only editorial service they ever need. (Manuscript assessments are also called editorial assessments or structural feedback. Minor differences aside, these all refer to the same thing.)

A manuscript assessment offers deep analysis of every major element of your book: plot, character, settings, pacing, prose style, and more. Your editor won’t rewrite the book for you (that’s definitely your job), but they will tell you, in detail, what’s working, what’s not working, and how to fix the bits that aren’t yet right. You’ll be given plenty of examples and whatever further editorial advice seems helpful. The emphasis is always on constructive, actionable feedback.

At Jericho Writers, our editorial reports are a minimum of 3,000 words long. All of our editors are very experienced. We don’t work with anyone who doesn’t meet our standards and we have a superb track record of helping writers through to publication.
The service is suitable for all works of fiction and non-fiction, including memoir and including Young Adult or Middle Grade fiction for kids. Details of our children’s manuscript assessment can be found here.

If you are on a budget and only want an opening section review, then we can offer that too – it’s the same basic service but involves less text and shorter reports.

A developmental edit (or “dev edit”) involves everything you get from a manuscript assessment, but also includes detailed line-by-line comments on your manuscript and a one-hour follow up by phone with your editor.

This is the most rigorous, most challenging – and most costly – version of editing. It’s really suitable only for authors who are confident that their manuscripts are getting close to publication-ready. It’s conventionally the last (optional) step before submission to agents.
If you’re not sure whether developmental editing is right for you, you can book a free consultation with one of our team. In most cases, we’ll be likely to guide you to a cheaper option.

Copy editing is the most common form of text correction for authors. Copy-editing will focus on eliminating grammatical and factual errors in the text and will improve overall readability and consistency within your writing. Your editor will make changes using tracked changes (or a suitable alternative) directly onto your manuscript.

Some form of copy-editing is essential if you are planning to self-publish. If you are aiming to submit to traditional publishers via agents, you probably don’t need copy-editing, unless there are specific reasons otherwise (for example, dyslexia, or writing in English as a foreign language.)

If you want a deeper version of copy-editing – one that also tackles clumsily written sentences and aims to improve flow and clarity – you can ask for line-editing.

Proof reading is the lightest form of text correction and is really only suitable for text that has already been copy-edited and for authors who want a near-perfect manuscript prior to publication. The editor will identify simple typos or in-text errors. You will receive a marked-up manuscript, however any changes will be minimal compared to the other text correction services.

Seeking editorial advice should not be a passive process. On the contrary: the magic happens in the interaction between you and your editor.

To get the most from your editor, you should do as much as you can on the book before submitting it to us. So don’t just reach the final full-stop, then send the book out. You need to self-edit your work as rigorously as you can first. That way, the editor will be solving genuinely difficult and important problems, not just things that you could have found and solved by yourself.

As a rough rule of thumb, you should continue to self-edit your work until either you find yourself going round in circles or you know there’s something not quite right, but you can’t confidently identify the issue. That’s the point at which you will get maximum benefit from a professional editor.

And when you receive your feedback – be prepared! The typical reactions include a mixture of shock – you wanted the book to be perfect, and it isn’t – and relief. The relief comes from finally understanding what the issues are and being given a path to fixing them. Be assured that the relief (and energy release) will soon take over from any initial shock.

Our editors are all either:

A) Experienced editors from major publishing houses; or B) Experienced authors.

We make extensive use of professional authors, for the same reason that carpenters are usually the best people to teach carpentry: this is a practical task, and you’ll often get the best advice from hands-on, working practitioners.

That said, we also use well-qualified editors from publishing houses, but only those with a real passion for the task of editing itself. (Although the job title is ‘editor’, in practice the role covers management of the entire publication process from acquisition to production to marketing.)

As a very broad guide, authors often make the best editors for newer writers (where the practitioner-type advice is most important) and publisher-editors often make the best editors for later stage writers (where knowledge of the publishing market becomes more relevant.) But that’s a broad rule only. We allocate manuscripts to editors based on genre, author, specific editorial issues, an editor’s specific experience and passions, and so on. It’s our job to find the right editor for you.

We don’t use any editor who doesn’t meet our standards, and we check every editorial report before it goes out to the client. We aim to be the best and work hard to make sure we live up to that aim.

The cost of an editorial service is dependent on the service you require and your wordcount. The services that require a lighter editorial touch, such as proofreading, will be on the cheaper end of the scale. However, the more in-depth level of editing you need, the more expensive the fee will be. When you choose your editorial service, just enter your wordcount for an immediate quote.

Some authors will find they need another round of edits even after purchasing a professional review. This is normal – and unlike some other online companies, we are very upfront about that. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll need to pay for a second or third professional edit – you may be able to handle another round of edits yourself or with the help of a beta reader. But you should be prepared to go on editing until the day your book is published. (Your book will get better with every round of edits.)

At Jericho Writers, we pride ourselves in providing services we would value ourselves, with editors we truly believe in. So if you’re in any doubt about whether your manuscript is in fact ready for a professional edit, then get in touch with our Writer Support team, and we’ll offer you honest (and free) advice on your next steps.

We’re confident that we’re the best at what we do. That’s why we offer a guarantee for all the editorial work we undertake.

We promise:

To give you a stringent, in-depth editorial report.
To use an expert book editor with authority in the industry.
To consider the market for your manuscript.
To be honest and constructive.
To respect your copyright.
To pitch your work to agents on your behalf if, in our view, it is strong enough to be marketed. We will always seek your permission first.
To advise you honestly and in good faith.

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Over the last 20 years we have built up a list of professional book editors of the highest calibre. From bestselling authors themselves, to former commissioning editors, literary agents, and Big 5 Publishers, our book editors have years of experience working with all fiction genres across adult, children’s, middle grade, and Young Adult, and non-fiction projects, including memoirs.

Holly Seddon

Editor | Tutor | Author • International bestselling author

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Holly is an international bestselling author with five published novels to date.

Holly is the international bestselling author of ‘Try Not to Breathe,’ ‘Don’t Close Your Eyes,’, ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’, (Corvus) ‘The Hit List’ and ‘The Woman on the Bridge’ (Orion).

After growing up in the English countryside obsessed with music and books, Holly worked in London as a journalist and editor. She now lives in South East England with her family. Alongside fellow author Gillian McAllister, Holly co-hosts the popular Honest Authors Podcast.

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Philip Womack

Editor | Tutor | Author • Author & contributing editor to Literary Review

Philip is the author of The Other Book and The Liberators (Bloomsbury). The Liberators was a Children’s Book of the Year for 2010. He teaches Creative Writing to BA and MA students at London University, and has been a literary critic for nearly twenty years, as well as a freelance journalist for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, writing on topics such as education and literature, and even an article on pyjamas for Tatler magazine. He is currently on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors and a Contributing Editor to Literary Review.

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Dexter Petley

Editor | Author • Former commissioning editor

Dexter is the acclaimed author of a number of novels: Little Nineveh (Polygon 1995), Joyride (Fourth Estate, 1999), White Lies (Fourth Estate 2003) and One True Void (Two Ravens Press 2008).

Dexter is an experienced editor, literary novelist, memoirist and translator. He publishes regularly and is now considered to be one of our most original British nature writers. Dexter lives in a yurt in Normandy.

As a long serving editor with Jericho Writers, (since 2005) many of Dexter’s clients have achieved considerable success in finding agents and publishers. Among them is Costa shortlisted novelist, Elisa Lodato.

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Abby Davies

Abby Davies is the author of Mother Loves Me (2020) and The Cult (2021), both published by HarperCollins. The Peterborough Telegraph called Abby’s debut ‘a chilling dread-laden thriller’. Chris Whitaker (bestselling author of We Begin at the End) called it ‘Intensely gripping, perfectly paced and thrilling’, and Alex Lake (bestselling author of Seven Days) said, ‘Mother Loves Me is both utterly gripping and totally original.’ She holds a BA English Literature from The University of Sheffield and an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. She taught English in all its forms for 13 years before becoming a full-time author. Mother Loves Me was shortlisted for Mslexia Novel Competition 2018. Abby enjoys many genres but has a penchant for psychological suspense, crime, mystery and YA Dystopia. Find Abby on Twitter here: @Abby13Richards

Anastasia Parkes

Anastasia has an MA in English Literature from Oxford and has lived in London, Venice and Cairo. She has worked as a temp, a nursery teacher and most recently a defence lawyers’ secretary. Anastasia Parkes is an Oxford educated 50-something wife and mother of three living in Hampshire . She has two creative personae: as Anastasia she writes ‘human interest’ articles for The Times, The Daily Mail, The Lady and The Tablet where her schtick is to tackle, with humour and honesty, intensely personal topics such as single motherhood, older parenthood, living with multiple sclerosis, and life as a young English teacher in 1980s Cairo. Many of these are explored in her short story collection Stabbing the Rain and two novels (written under the pseudonym Maria Lucas) Daddy’s Girl and Loved Ones which are all available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon. Primula Bond is her alter ego and the successful author of the classy and explosive erotic romance trilogy The Silver Chain, The Golden Locket and The Diamond Ring, published by Harper Collins. Primula has delivered workshops at the York Festival of Writing and Eroticon in Bristol on how to write sex scenes and Anastasia has taught general short story techniques. Find Anastasia on Twitter here: @AnastasiaParkes Find Primula on Twitter here: @PrimulaBond

Becky Hunter

Becky has over eight years’ experience in the publishing industry. She started her career grading and passing the more promising submissions through to a literary agent. Since then, she’s worked in both and editorial and PR capacity. On the PR side, she worked at two major publishers – Transworld (part of Penguin Random House) and Headline (part of Hachette). She worked with a variety of fiction and non-fiction authors, across a variety of genres. She helped launch the career of debut authors such as Shari Lapena and Karen Hamilton, as well as working with brand women’s fiction and crime/thriller authors. She attended in-house focus and acquisitions meetings, so has a strong idea of what publishers are looking for on the industry side of things. Over the last two years, she’s been working on a freelance basis, in both an editorial and PR capacity. On the PR side of things, she works independently with authors, as well as for agencies such as Midas PR, working mainly with fiction authors. Editorially, she works with aspiring and self-published authors, as well as on a project-by-project basis with traditional publishers, such as Bloomsbury. She prides herself on giving thorough, in-depth reports, and loves to see the improvements an author makes with editorial feedback. She is also an author in her own right – her novel ONE MOMENT sold in multiple global territories and will be published in the UK in 2023 and the US in 2024, where it was pre-empted as part of a two-book deal for six figures. She is represented by Sarah Hornsley at PFD. Find Becky on Twitter here: @Bookish_Becky

Becky Stradwick

Becky has worked in the industry for 23 years, as a publisher, literary agent and bookseller. As Editorial Director at Penguin Random House, she published authors such as Susan Cooper, James Dashner, Jason Segel, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, Damian Dibben, Ellie Irving, Fox Benwell, Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie, Lauren Kate, John Stephens, Heather Demetrios, Rosemary Clement Moore and Michael Scott. As literary agent at Darley Anderson’s, she represented authors including Phil Earle, Michelle Harrison, Carmen Reid, Jenna Burtenshaw, Rob Stevens, Adrienne Kress and Lisa Clark. Before this she worked as a bookseller, managing Books etc branches, before becoming Head of Children’s books for Borders UK, where she won Children’s Bookseller of the Year two years running. She has written for THE ARTISTS AND WRITERS YEARBOOK, THE BOOKSELLER and PUBLISHING NEWS. Some of her favourite authors include Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman, Jonathan Stroud, Akwaeke Emezi and Elizabeth Wein. Her all-time favourite books are THE BORRIBLE TRILOGY by Michael Larrabeiti, WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams and HIS DARK MATERIALS by Philip Pullman.

Brian Kimberling

Brian Kimberling is the author of two novels published in the US and UK, by Pantheon and Tinder Press respectively. He has also written for The New York Times, NPR, and others. Brian’s first novel, Snapper, about an aimless ornithologist in southern Indiana, was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2013. His second novel, Goulash, which is set in Prague, was also translated into Czech. Brian has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and a long history of teaching, mentoring, collaborating with, or otherwise consorting with fresh distinctive talent. He has worked extensively in publishing and journalism. He has also written and produced three plays. His interests include short stories, climate change writing, and contemporary British domestic fiction. Every couple of years Brian re-reads The Odyssey and cooks the food Odysseus eats in between reads. Brian was born in southern Indiana, but for the last twenty years he has called southwestern England home.

Caroline Hulse

Caroline Hulse is a writer of book club fiction with offbeat humour. Her work has been published in fourteen languages and optioned for television. Caroline is the author of The Adults (2018), Like A House On Fire (2020), and All The Fun Of The Fair (2021). Her work has been published to significant critical acclaim and press reviews. She finds the comedy in the gaps between how people see themselves and how other books’ themes are best exemplified by the phrase, ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions.’ Caroline has a degree in English Literature from the University of Sheffield. She worked in Human Resources for seventeen years, writing books in the evenings and weekends, before becoming a professional writer. She has extensive experience of coaching and mentoring, and loves helping other authors get the best out of their writing. Caroline lives in Manchester, UK, with her husband and a small controlling dog. Find Caroline on Twitter here: @CarolineHulse1

Cecile Shanahan

Cecile Shanahan is an experienced editor and proofreader who adores helping writers to make their words shine. She has a special interest in children’s and young adult literature and educational publishing, but often works on general fiction and non-fiction titles too. She was also the Editor of The Vox Bendigo Book Young Writers Anthology published by Bendigo Writers Festival (2016-2021).Cecile has tertiary qualifications in Professional Editing and Proofreading, Secondary Education, English Literature and Journalism.

Charlotte Hayes-Clemens

Charlotte is an editorial professional with over five years’ experience in the publishing industry, three of which were spent in the Fiction Editorial team at HarperCollins. Having specialised in creative writing as part of Charlotte’s English Literature degree, she went on to edit for the fiction and non-fiction creative writing journal Route 57, where she developed her love of collaborating with writers. At HarperCollins, she worked with the J. R. R. Tolkien and Agatha Christie estates, on women’s fiction and romance titles such as Debbie Johnson’s Summer at the Comfort Food Café, and on unique non-fiction publications, including the Fantastic Beasts movie tie-ins. As a freelance editor, she has worked one-on-one with every type of writer, from first-time to published authors, and her ability to coach clients through the writing and editing process with clear, constructive feedback has led to several successful publications and a five-star Reedsy review rating.

Chloë Rayban

Chloë Rayban is best known for her YA novels. Her wacky, humorous ‘Justine’ novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and twice for the Guardian Fiction Prize. One of them was made into a feature film by Columbia Tristar. Over the past twenty-five years, her books have been published by Random House, Harper Collins, Hodder, Headline and Bloomsbury. She enjoys writing for all age groups, YA, Middle Grade and Early Readers. Under her real name – Carolyn Bear – OUP publishes her books for younger children, the most popular being the Scrapman series, which sells worldwide, most recently in China. She says her books “grew up with her children” and she now also writes both fiction and non-fiction for adults. Find out more on chloeraybanbooks.com

Claire Gillman

Claire is an experienced journalist, writer and editor. Until last year she was the Editor of Kindred Spirit, the UK’s leading mind/body/spirit magazine. She has been coaching and mentoring writers for nearly 15 years. She has been a freelance contributor to leading women’s magazines and national newspapers, particularly The Times and the Guardian, and has also been editor of a number of consumer and specialist women’s magazines including Health & Fitness magazine and Girl About Town. Claire has written 30 non-fiction books for adults and creative non-fiction titles for children, some under the pen-name, Rory Storm. Among her titles are three books in the Hodder Teach Yourself series on how to get published and how to make money from freelance writing. She has coached authors for top publishing houses and has also run writers’ workshops, always with the emphasis on fun, style and discovering your inner creativity. Claire is married with two grown-up sons and lives on the edge of the West Pennines with her family and dog. For more information, go to www.clairegillman.com.

Clare Coombes

Clare Coombes is an author, editor and literary agent with over 15 years’ experience of writing and editing professionally. She is a co-founder of the first Liverpool-based literary agency, who has already closed a number of major multi-book deals for debut authors since launching in late 2020. Clare is a published author of two novels, Definitions (2015) and We Are of Dust (2018) – which received development funding from the Liverpool Film Office for a TV adaptation. Her experience spans the breadth of editorial services and includes work across a variety of forms including full fiction manuscripts, anthologies, non-fiction proposals and pitches for film and TV. She also has a background in PR and marketing, alongside teaching roles on creative writing programmes, including at post-graduate level, on topics from approaching an agent to self-editing. Find Clare’s agency on Twitter here: @LiverpoolLit

Clare Harvey

Clare Harvey is the acclaimed author of four historical fiction novels published by Simon & Schuster (UK). Clare has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham, and experience in creative writing tuition for all ages and abilities, from early years to retirees. Mentoring and workshop clients include Writing East Midlands, Inspire Libraries, Derby Quad, the University of Nottingham, and many others. Clare has also given talks and/or facilitated panel events for Derby Book Festival, Wirksworth Book Festival, Lowdham Book Festival, States of Independence Book Festival, Inspire Libraries, Waterstones Events, and Jarrold’s Books. She is a member of the Society of Authors and the Romantic Novelists’ Association. Clare has a background in journalism (print and radio), charity PR, copywriting, and English tuition. Clare was born in Devon, but an expat childhood, a military marriage, and a love of travel, means she has lived and worked all over the world. She now lives in Nottingham with her family. She’s currently working towards her creative writing PhD at Coventry University. You can find out more about Clare on her website here: https://clareharvey.net or on Twitter here: @ClareHarveyauth

Constance Renfrow

Constance Renfrow is the former lead editor of the fiercely independent Three Rooms Press in New York. Here, she edited such titles as Meagan Brothers’s groundbreaking LGBT YA novel Weird Girl and What’s His Name, hailed by Foreword Reviews as “[having] all the makings to become a classic of this generation”; Johanna Drucker’s tremendous debut eco-fiction Downdrift; and Eamon Loingsigh’s eloquent examination of the nineteenth-century Brooklyn Irish, Exile on Bridge Street (Langum Prize Shortlist). She is also a former columnist at DIY MFA, where she offered insight into the book publishing industry. Her first book, Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Stories was a 2016 IndieFAB Finalist, and her short fiction has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and the Best of the Net, and most recently won the Porter House Review Prize in 2019. She received her MFA in fiction from Pacific University.

Debi Alper

Debi’s first two novels, Nirvana Bites and Trading Tatiana, urban thrillers set among the sub-cultures of South East London, were published by Orion to critical acclaim. Debi has now set up her own imprint and has re-published both novels as e-books, along with the other three in the Nirvana series. Since 2006, Debi has spent most of her time helping other writers to perfect their novels through critiques, mentoring, Book Doctor sessions and creative writing workshops. She edits in all genres and many authors that she has worked with have been signed up with agents and gone on to see their books published. She also runs the phenomenally successful Jericho Writers’ Self-Edit Your Novel course, together with Emma Darwin. An astonishing one in five authors have gone on to be published following the course. Debi also acts as a competition judge and is a reader for the Costa Short Story Awards. * Please note that, due to extreme demand, Debi only works with self-edit alumni and previous clients * Find Debi on Twitter here: @DebiAlper

Deirdre Power

Deirdre began her publishing career in a literary agency, working with children’s authors ranging from Tom Fletcher and David Farr to debut novelists and upcoming new authors. Since then, she has gone on to work in children’s editorial at major publishing houses, working across everything from picture books to YA. She has worked with upcoming debuts launching in 2023 and 2024 and on high profile authors such as Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ravena Guron, and David Farr. She also works on a freelance basis on submission packages and manuscripts. Deirdre brings a keen editorial eye and in-depth knowledge of the market, and spends more time reading children’s fiction than anything else. Having worked in both a literary agency and a publishers, she has a strong understanding of how the process works from both sides, and what both agents and editors are hungry to read. Before her start in publishing, Deirdre was a children’s bookseller for many years and tutored in creative writing while she earned her MPhil in Children’s Literature from Trinity College Dublin.

Dexter Petley

Dexter is the acclaimed author of a number of novels: Little Nineveh (Polygon 1995), Joyride (Fourth Estate, 1999), White Lies (Fourth Estate 2003) and One True Void (Two Ravens Press 2008). Dexter is an experienced editor, literary novelist, memoirist and translator. Self-educated, he spent many years wandering Africa, Europe and America until settling in France in 1994. He worked as a teacher in a Ugandan missionary school and as a roving reporter for the BBC World Service before publishing his first novel in 1995. Since then, Dexter has become the acclaimed author of a number of novels, a translation, literary non-fiction and a memoir of childhood. He is one of the founding writers on the cult website Caught By The River, contributing chapters to both their nature anthologies. He publishes regularly and is now considered to be one of our most original British nature writers. Dexter lives in a yurt in Normandy. As a long serving editor with Jericho Writers, (since 2005) many of Dexter’s clients have achieved considerable success in finding agents and publishers. Among them is Costa shortlisted novelist, Elisa Lodato.

Diana Collis

Diana has 25 years of experience in the non-fiction arena, with a writing career that began in journalism and media in Docklands London and continued in magazines, books, brochures, newsletters, radio programmes, e-zines and websites. Diana has years of editing and mentoring experience in Memoir and more general non-fiction work for Jericho Writers. Whilst Mind, Body and Spirit is her specialism, manuscript focuses have included areas as diverse as interior design, food/cookery, hypnotherapy, parenting/family issues, meditation, mountain trekking, feng shui, positive attitude, religious and transcendental experiences, travel and immigration, addiction recovery and physical and mental health challenges. A strong technical ability in writing and an honours degree in English, Drama and Film, combine with practical experience in the holistic field to make Diana uniquely able to appreciate the challenges of conveying material in both niche and traditional areas. She enjoys author support as much as developing her own projects, which, in recent years, have included consultancy and writing for the bestselling, Tattoo Tarot: Ink & Intuition deck/booklet set (attracting over 1, 350 positive reviews on Amazon), plus a follow-up Tattoo Tarot Journal book, a further, similar project of Movie Tarot, and research for the text of the Tarot Colouring Book, all with Laurence King Publishing. Most of her Jericho Writers authors have gone on to either win contracts with agents and publishers or successfully self-publish their work—frequently with excellent reviews on Amazon.

Edward Fenton

Edward Fenton has worked as a writer, publisher and editor for almost his entire career. He started out as a music journalist for NME, before getting his first job in publishing. His novel ‘Scorched Earth’ won the Sinclair Prize for Fiction, judged by a panel of former Booker judges. He has written and/or researched over twenty radio documentaries, broadcast on BBC Radios 1, 3 and 4, and his documentary on Samuel Pepys’s love of music was described by the Independent on Sunday as ‘radio documentary at its best’. He has a particular interest in diaries, and in 1998 he set up an independent publishing company, Day Books. His editions of historical diaries have featured in the Books of the Year lists in the national press, chosen by writers including Iain Sinclair and Martin Amis. He co-wrote the libretto of an opera which had its London premiere at the BBC Proms: and he is currently a member of the Four Wordsmen, who regularly perform their work at a range of events and festivals.

Eleanor Hawken

Eleanor is an experienced fiction editor and has worked on titles across the various children’s markets, from Young Fiction to YA. She loves discovering fresh talent and working with new authors to hone their story-telling skills. Eleanor has had nine novels for children published under her own name. Her titles include Sammy Feral’s Diaries of Weird (winner of the Lancashire Library’s Fantastic Book Award 2014), Felix Frost (Quercus Books), The Blue Lady and The Grey Girl (Hot Key Books). Eleanor has also written under the pseudonym Zed Storm, devising writing and working as a series consultant on the Will Solvit books. She has also written Book of the Film novelisations for movie studios, and countless activity and story books for various Disney films and franchises in her days as an editor in licensed publishing. Eleanor is married with two young sons. When not writing, editing or helping with maths homework she loves nothing more than to practise yoga! Find Eleanor on Twitter here: @ehawken

Eleni Kyriacou

Her debut novel, She Came To Stay, was selected by Hachette for their Future Bookshelf initiative. It’s an Amazon number 1 bestseller and was longlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, Marie Claire, Grazia, You, Stellaand Red, among others. She has spent her career predominately in women’s publishing. Born in London to Greek Cypriot parents, Eleni is particularly interested in stories about people who feel they don’t belong. She’s obsessed with the 1950s, but equally loves contemporary fiction. She’s now freelance and also mentors UK-based writers from marginalised backgrounds who are working on their first novels. You can find her on Twitter, Insta and FB: @elenikwriter and her website is www.elenikwriter.com

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