Editor
Louise Walters
Louise is the author of Mrs Sinclair’s Suitcase (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014), A Life Between Us (2017) and The Road to California (2018). She is also an editor, mentor, and publisher. Louise set up her indie imprint, Louise Walters Books, in 2017 and publishes novels and novellas. Dominic Brownlow (The Naseby Horses, 2019) was recommended to Louise by fellow Jericho Writers editor Susan Davis after Susan critiqued his novel; and Louise critiqued a novel by S J Norbury in 2019, and subsequently offered to publish it, an offer accepted by S J. Mrs Narwhal’s Diary was published by Louise Walters Books in 2021. Louise has a degree in Literature from the Open University, is an alumni of the Jericho Writers Self Edit Your Novel course (2013), and was a volunteer with the Womentoring Project. Louise lives near Banbury, with her family.
Find Louise on Twitter here: @LouiseWalters12
- L M West, author of 'This Fearful Thing'
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WHY WE LOVE LOUISE
Louise is a flexible editor with a wide-range of specialties covering everything from general non-fiction to women’s fiction. She’s worked with us on a variety of different projects and regularly assists authors with edits on memoirs and non-fiction material. She’s also experienced in literary and more contemporary fiction narratives. We spoke to her about her approach to writing and editing here.
WHAT LOUISE SAYS ABOUT EDITING
I love editing! I especially love drilling down into the heart of a project, paying close attention to structure and point of view. Often fixing these two aspects in a novel helps to fix everything else. A firm foundation is essential and I always work on edits with these aspects firmly in mind. It gives me enormous pleasure to help writers take their work to the next level. It’s wonderful when my advice chimes with a client and something “clicks” for them. I take a firm, frank approach, and I’m quite a “hard marker”. A critique isn’t worth having if flaws are ignored. But I aim to be constructive and detailed, and where things are working, you’ll hear a lot about that too.
I have both traditionally and self published my novels, and now spend most of my time publishing other authors at my indie imprint, Louise Walters Books. I am happy to work on your project in several ways: manuscript assessments, and editing – structural, line, and developmental edits are all good for me.
What Louise works on
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Perfect for authors with a finished draft
Manuscript assessment
Perfect for authors with a finished draft
Developmental Editing
Perfect for authors querying agents
Agent Submission Pack assessment
Perfect for authors querying agents
Post-editorial guidance
Line-editing
Proof-reading
Louise's published books
