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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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View some of our book editors

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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Not sure which service or editor is right for your manuscript?

Book a call with our Writers Support team, we’d be happy to help you find the right service and editor for you and your book.

Juliet Mahony

Juliet Mahony has over ten years experience in the industry, working as a rights manager, literary scout and agent. Her publishing upbringing was at Lutyens and Rubinstein where she started as an assistant, worked her way up to rights manager and finally took on clients of her own. During her time there, she worked with best-selling and award-winning writers like Mark Billingham, Claire Fuller and Hannah Richell. She still freelances for her former colleagues and helps prepare manuscripts for publication. Her clients have been published by leading houses, on lists such as Sphere, Scribner and Quercus. She’s worked for Jenny Darling & Associates in Melbourne with some of the biggest names in the Australian literary world and, most recently, as a literary scout. This breadth of experience has given her a unique and thorough understanding of the international literary appetite and what it takes for a book to stand out from the crowd.

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.

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.

Richard Roper

Richard is an experienced senior commissioning editor for non-fiction at Headline (part of Hachette UK), where he has published a number of Sunday Times bestsellers. Richard is also a novelist. His debut, Something to Live For, was published by Orion (UK) and Penguin (US), and has sold in twenty languages. Something to Live For (commercial reading group fiction) was a Barnes & Noble book of the month and was optioned for TV. The New York Times said, ‘I love this book with my whole heart.’ His second novel, When We Were Young, came out in 2021. As an editor at Headline, he works mainly in biography and narrative non-fiction. He has published memoirs by comedians James Acaster, Miles Jupp, Katy Wix, and Joel Dommett. He has also worked with the likes of Dave Davies of The Kinks, sports stars Steven Gerrard and Andy Murray, brands like Downton Abbey, and quirky narratives such as A Tomb With a View by Peter Ross – recently awarded Scottish Non-Fiction book of the year. Find Richard on Twitter here: @richardroper

Susan Allott

Susan Allott is a critically acclaimed author whose debut novel, The Silence, was published internationally by Harper Collins in 2020 and was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association New Blood Dagger award. Her second novel, The Imposter, is due to be published in summer 2023 with Borough Press.Susan studied English literature at Leeds University and Media & Communications at Goldsmiths College. She is also a Faber Academy alumna, but she credits the Jericho Writers self-edit course with her ultimate success and raves about it to everyone.Originally from the English south coast, Susan now lives in London with her family. Visit Susan’s website, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Kate Rizzo

Kate Rizzo works as a Rights Director at a London literary agency, and has worked at agencies her entire publishing career. Her role in selling an author’s work abroad gives her a keen eye for what a manuscript needs to find a publishing home and captivate readers. She has sold translation rights for writers like Laura Barnett, Lucy Clarke, Kate Davies, Joseph Knox, Maria Realf, Holly Seddon, Clare Swatman, and Sarah Waters, and has worked for a number of bestselling writers in genres as broad as crime/thriller, women’s fiction, literary, memoir, narrative non-fiction and the sciences. Find Kate on Twitter here: @KateRizzz

Vee Walker

Love of family history was the start point for Vee Walker’s unique début novel Major Tom’s War (Kashi House), which evolved from a narrative non-fiction account of an unlikely WWI courtship into gripping historical fiction. Her unexpected success at the SAHR Military History Fiction Awards in October 2019 led her to undertake a solo book tour of India. Vee writes both fiction and non-fiction. Her novels are so closely based on archive material that they can be used as academic source texts.Vee honed her writing/editing skills as a heritage consultant for 20+ years, working with museums and natural/cultural/historic sites throughout the UK. Her poetry and descriptive writing can be found within unusual interpretive installations on mountains, in forests and along the coast. She was also commissioned to write pieces of site-based drama by The Royal Geographical Society (Antarctic Science, 2001), British Waterways (the AHI Caliba Award-winning Harry’s Cut, set on the 1950s Birmingham canals network, 2002), and The National Trust for Scotland (#FindAleckie, 2019). Vee often runs creative writing workshops. Find Vee on Twitter here: @veewalkerwrites

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.

Katy Massey

Katy was a journalist for 15 years before studying for an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. Her memoir, Are we home yet? (Jacaranda Books) was published in 2020 and praised by Bernardine Evaristo as ‘a gem’. It was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and the Portico Prize. In addition, her fiction and nonfiction has been widely anthologised, including Common People edited by Kit de Waal from Unbound, The Place for Me, published by Scholastic, and upcoming speculative collection Glimpse, from Peepal Tree Press. She has recently delivered her first novel, an unusual take on the crime genre, to her agent. It features Maureen, a hard-drinking but tender-hearted brothel-keeper in 1970s Leeds. She becomes unexpectedly drawn into the murder of a friend’s son, events which take place against the disturbing back drop of the Yorkshire Ripper’s murder spree. Find Katy on twitter here: @TangledRoots1

Mary Hargreaves

Mary Hargreaves is an author and editor with a decade of experience. After writing her first novel, This Is Not A Love Story (Trapeze, Orion), she decided to take her editing career further and joined the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders, where she undertook a fiction editing course. Mary quit her day job in 2020 to focus on editing and writing full-time, and as her second novel, Enough Already, was published, she wrote her third book and continued building her list of freelance clients. With a background in academia and a keen eye for detail, Mary has shifted her attention from dry research papers to her true passion in life: reading, writing and editing brilliant stories. Mary writes women’s fiction, and has a particular interest in funny tales about imperfect women. She knows how hard the writing process is, and loves nothing more than helping talented authors make their work the best it can be.

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

Em Norry

E.L Norry is a MG/YA writer represented by The Soho Agency. Her first book was published in 2019, a commission in the historical VOICES series (Scholastic). Em wrote about the Victorian era. Son of the Circus blended fact and fiction, a favourite thing of hers to do. In 2020 she added non-fiction with a biography of Nelson Mandela (Puffin). She also had short stories in the collection Home Again: Stories about Coming Home from War. (Scholastic). 2021 is busy! Amber Undercover (OUP), a standalone upper MG contemporary action-adventure hit the shelves. She also has stories in three anthologies: Happy Here (Knights Of), The Place for Me: Stories from the Windrush (Scholastic) and A Very Merry Murder Club (Farshore). Non-fiction is a football biography of Lionel Messi (Scholastic). Em has previously written for a younger age group, reluctant and dyslexic readers. A Good Friend (Hodder Education). Recently, a two-book deal with Bloomsbury was announced. Book 1 in an MG fantasy series is out in 2023, in collaboration with Storymix and Jasmine Richards. Find Em on Twitter here: @elnorry_writer

Rosie Walker

Rosie Walker is a writer of psychological thrillers: Secrets of a Serial Killer (2020), and The House Fire (2022), both published by Harper Collins‘ One More Chapter. Since publication, Secrets of a Serial Killer has sold more than 14,000 copies across ebook, paperback and audiobook. Rosie gained a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, which taught her the ins and outs of great fiction: structure, pace, plot, characterisation and conflict. She also learned the art of providing insightful feedback on others’ writing, whether that’s big-picture plot issues or the detail of a line edit. She is currently writing her third novel and working as a freelance editor, specialising in psychological thrillers and women’s fiction. She loves adult fiction with mysteries and puzzles: secret passageways, abandoned houses, the novel version of Jonathan Creek, or the Famous Five for grown ups. Find Rosie on Twitter here: @ciderwithrosie

Emma Cooper

Emma is the author of highly acclaimed book club fiction novels and is known for mixing humour with darker emotional themes. Her debut, The Songs of Us, was snapped up in multiple pre-empts and auctions and was short-listed for the RNA contemporary novel of the year award. Her work has since been translated into seven different languages. She has had four books published so far: The Songs of Us, The First Time I Saw You, If I Could Say Goodbye, and It Was Always You which was published by Headline Review in the summer of 2022. Find Emma on Twitter here: @ItsEmmacooper

Trisha Sakhlecha

Trisha Sakhlecha is the critically acclaimed author of two psychological thrillers, Your Truth or Mine? and Can You See Me Now?, published by Pan Macmillan. Trisha’s writing has been compared to that of Salman Rushdie, been praised by award-winning authors and reviewed in the Sunday Times, the Times, the Guardian, the Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, Daily Mail and more. She’s been on panels at festivals and events and spoken about her work and the importance of representation on BBC Radio 4 Open Book, BBC Radio Kent & Talk Radio. Trisha enjoys crime, thriller and upmarket women’s fiction and has particular interest in novels featuring complex female protagonists and diverse stories. Trisha grew up in New Delhi and now lives in London. Find Trisha on Twitter here: @TrishSakhlecha

Neema Shah

Neema Shah is an award-winning author and marketer. Her debut novel Kololo Hill was published in 2021 by Picador and has featured in The Independent, The Irish Times, Marie Claire and Daily Mail among others. Neema’s work won the Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Live and was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award, First Novel Prize and York Festival of Writing Best Opening Chapter competitions. Kololo Hill was also longlisted for the Retreat West Novel Prize, Exeter Novel Prize, SI Leeds Literary Prize and York Festival of Writing Pitch Perfect awards. Her flash fiction won the Curtis Brown #WriteCBC competition and came second prize in the Casket of Fictional Delights, judged by Kit de Waal. Neema developed her writing through the University of East Anglia Writing Fiction course and Jericho Writers Self Edit Your Novel course among others. She mentors writers including those from under-represented backgrounds and is passionate about building a more diverse publishing industry. Neema has a Law LLB degree and is a Chartered Institute of Marketing qualified marketer. Find Nemma on Twitter here: @NeemaMShah Author image © Alexander James

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

Louise Tondeur

Louise Tondeur writes fiction, poetry, plays and nonfiction and has supported countless numbers of writers with both written and verbal feedback. Before doing a Creative Writing MA at The University of East Anglia, she trained as a Drama teacher and brings her knowledge of the theatre into her conversations with emerging writers. In the noughties, she published two novels with Headline Review called The Water’s Edge and The Haven Home for Delinquent Girls, then she did a PhD at the Reading University, started a family, and became a Creative Writing lecturer, while publishing mainly poetry and nonfiction. In 2017, she left her full-time job to focus on writing. Her short story collection, Unusual Places (Cultured Llama), came out in 2018 and she is currently working on a series of crime novels set in Norfolk / Suffolk border country where her grandparents lived for 40 years. Louise now lives near Brighton with her wife, son, and two black cats and teaches on the Open University’s Creative Writing MA. She blogs at: www.louisetondeur.co.uk Find Louise on Twitter here: @LouiseTondeur

Mary Torjussen

Mary Torjussen has an MA in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moores University and writes psychological suspense. She loves to write about women who find themselves in a perilous situation where the danger is close to home. She lives near Liverpool and likes to use local settings for her novels. She was previously a teacher who took a gamble when redundancy was offered, deciding she’d take time off work to write a novel. Luckily this paid off when her first novel, Gone Without a Trace (2016) was simultaneously bought by Headline in the UK and Penguin in the US. Ecosse bought the TV option and it was also translated into nine languages. Her follow up novels are The Girl I Used to Be (2018) and The Closer You Get (2020). She gives talks in bookshops, libraries and to students on creative writing courses, and has been on panels at CrimeFest in Bristol, ThrillerFest in New York, Bouchercon in Toronto and Iceland Noir in Reykjavík.

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.

Sharon Zink

Dr Sharon Zink is a former English Literature academic, having studied at London and Cambridge, who has over eleven years’ experience of editing and creative writing teaching. Her first novel, Welcome to Sharonville (Unthank Books, 2014), was longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award and is currently being developed as a TV series. She has won numerous awards, such as being named as Young Poet of the Year and Writers Inc. Writer of the Year, as well as being shortlisted three times for The New Writer Short Story Award and for The Raymond Carver Prize. She is very proud that many of her clients have gone on to get agents and deals, including bestselling authors, Amanda Prowse and Kathryn Hughes, as well as the twice Macmillan-published, Mark Gartside, and Kate Glanville, whose books are with Accent and Penguin US. She has recently helped Helen Fisher’s novel become the lead title for Simon and Schuster in 2020. Find Sharon on Twitter here: @SharonZink

Philip Womack

Philip is the author of The Other Book and The Liberators (Bloomsbury). The Liberators was a Children’s Book of the Year for 2010. Philip Womack was born in Sussex, and educated at Lancing and Oriel College, Oxford, where he read Classics and English. After graduating, he worked at Literary Review for four years, before becoming freelance in 2008 on publication of his first novel, The Other Book. Six novels for children followed, including The Liberators, The Double Axe and The Arrow of Apollo, and his first non-fiction work for adults, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, was published in October 2020. 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. Find Philip on Twitter here: @WomackPhilip

Stuart Walton

Stuart Walton is an established writer and editor who has had sixteen books published, and has been a senior writer and inspector on the Good Food Guide for thirty years. Stuart Walton is a writer and editor who has had sixteen books published. These range from a history of intoxicants, Out of It (now in its second edition), to critical studies of the emotions and the five senses, as well as a debut novel, The First Day in Paradise (2016). His most recent work is an inquiry into mayhem and disorder, An Excursion into Chaos, published by Bloomsbury in 2021. He has been translated into twelve languages. As well as being a prolific book critic for, among others, the TLS, the London Magazine, the LA Review of Books and Review 31, Stuart is a Royal Literary Fund Tutorial Fellow at Plymouth University. In his early career, he wrote on food and wine, co-edited the Hachette Wine Guide and has been a senior writer and inspector on the Good Food Guide for thirty years. He was educated at Manchester University and Lincoln College, Oxford, and holds the Oxford Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing. Find Stuart on Twitter here: @stuartwalton1

Kathie Weaver

Kathie is a screenplay, fiction, and nonfiction editor with more than 20 years of experience working with first-time writers to Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winners. At DreamWorks Pictures and The Mount/Kramer Company, she developed scripts for highly-acclaimed writers and directors, including Horton Foote, Sydney Lumet, Roman Polanski, William Friedkin, Philip Noyce, and others. She has vast experience mentoring both beginning and seasoned screenwriters and authors through all stages of the writing process, from concept to final draft. A former film editor, Kathie studied English literature at Northwestern University and screenwriting at Columbia University. Kathie’s own script, Loco Weda, was optioned by The Mount Company, and she is currently working on a novel and an oral history of homeless women, called Women Outside. She lives on Bainbridge Island, a ferry ride away from Seattle, Washington.

Holly Seddon

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. Find her on Twitter here: @hollyseddon

Sibyl Ruth

An experienced teacher and mentor, over the years Sibyl has helped many writers realise their ambitions. Artists she has worked with have gone on to win literary prizes and awards. After studying English at Cambridge, Sibyl Ruth went on to publish two small press collections of poetry and win the Mslexia Poetry Competition. Her poems have been widely anthologised and broadcast. She has also scripted and presented two features for Radio 4. Listen to Them Breathing was about Quaker poets while Terezin Dreams considered the poetry written by her German-Jewish great aunt Rose Scooler, while she was in a concentration camp. She lives in Birmingham and has been the city’s Poet Laureate. Find her on LinkedIn here.

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.

Emily Randle

Emily runs her own Editing and Rights Consulting business, working alongside indie authors, indie publishers and consulting for big name international literary agencies.During her time at the agency, she worked with best-selling authors such as Stephen Fry, Paula Hawkins, Owen Jones, Carole Matthews, Sarah Vaughan and Rosie Walsh, alongside national treasure children’s authors such as Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson. She was runner up for the David Miller Bursary in the Deborah Rogers Rights Award 2017. At the start of 2020, Emily launched her own freelance book editing and rights selling business under the name Randle Editorial & Literary Consultancy. She also regularly consults for big literary agencies such as Janklow & Nesbit and Johnson & Alcock, in both Rights and Primary Agenting departments.

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

Martin Ouvry

Martin is a writer, editor, teacher and musician. He has twenty years’ experience as a writer, reviewer, manuscript assessor, structural editor, writing teacher, line-editor, copy-editor and proofreader. His fiction has appeared in a range of world-renowned publications including Esquire, The London Magazine and New Writing (Picador). Martin has received numerous prizes for his work, including first- and final-year prizes for outstanding achievement in the School of English and American Studies (UEA BA), the Alumni Association prize for fiction (UEA MA), a Hawthornden Fellowship, two Arts Council writer’s awards, and a Wingate Scholarship in literature. He has taught widely, for the British Council, the Arts Council, at City, University of London, UEA, Holland Park School and elsewhere. He recently completed his novel Frugality with the generous support of Arts Council England.

Nicola Mostyn

Nicola Mostyn has twenty years experience in working with creativity, as an arts journalist, columnist, editor, writing coach and the author of two novels and one non-fiction title. Nicola’s debut The Gods of Love was shortlisted for The Writers’ Guild Best First Novel award, became an I-news top ten debut, a NetGalley top read and an Amazon bestseller. The sequel, The Love Delusion, followed in 2019. Nicola’s non-fiction title, Seven Creative Gremlins, was written in conjunction with a Life Coach and is aimed at helping writers combat common psychological blocks. She runs the website TheUnstoppableAuthor.com, offering support, inspiration and tough love to aspiring and established writers. Nicola has a Master’s Degree in English Literature from The University of Manchester and a certificate in Teaching Creative Writing Workshops from Manchester Metropolitan University. From 2017 to 2020, Nicola held creative writing workshops in Manchester to help writers make progress on their work in a supportive and relaxed environment. Find Nicola on Twitter here: @NicolaMostyn

Liz Monument

Liz Monument writes all kinds of fiction, including SF, historical, and horror. She believes that the mechanics of fiction are identical whether you’re writing literary, genre, or hybrids, and that the same principles can be applied to improve a manuscript regardless of its subject matter or style. Liz’s debut novel was short-listed for Mslexia Magazine’s unpublished novel competition in 2013, becoming a talking book in 2014 (Audible.co.uk), and a paperback in 2015 (Fahrenheit Press). Liz’s second novel ‘Iteration’ (Fahrenheit Press) was on the submissions list for the Arthur C Clarke Award, 2018. Her third novel, written for a PhD in Creative Writing, is a genre-bending fusion of dystopian, historical, SF and literary fiction. Liz specialised in adult education and taught in the creative arts field for 22 years before becoming a full-time novelist and editor. As of 2021, Liz is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Haydn Middleton

Haydn Middleton has been an author and tutor for almost forty years. Haydn is probably unique in having published quite so many books on such a wide range of subjects – both fiction and non-fiction, for both adults and for children – although some of them are really very short indeed! Many have been translated into foreign languages. Details can be found on his website www.haydnmiddleton.com. The Observer said of his most recent novel for adults, The Ballad Of Syd & Morgan (Propolis, 2018), ‘Haydn Middleton brilliantly imagines a meeting between Syd Barrett and E M Forster’. His next adult novel, The Actual Whole of Music was published in May 2021. His latest work of fiction for children The Girl Who Said No to the Nazis (Pushkin, 2020) tells the true story of the 1942-43 White Rose plot against Hitler & Co. A historian by training, and a lifelong devotee of fantasy/SF, he has worked as an editor at Oxford University Press, taught creative writing around the world from England to America to Greece and Australia, and he currently tutors students from Stanford University USA on the Bing Overseas Studies Program.

Lesley McDowell

Lesley is the author of fiction and non-fiction as well as short stories and was a literary critic for major newspapers. Lesley is the author of two novels, The Picnic (Black & White Publishing), and Unfashioned Creatures (Saraband), with a third novel forthcoming 2023-24. She has also published non-fiction, Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers (Overlook Press), and for many years was a literary critic, reviewing regularly for The Independent on Sunday, The Sunday Herald, the Scotsman, The Times Literary Supplement, and others, before turning to full-time editorial consultancy. She is the recipient of three Creative Scotland awards, a Society of Authors grant, and was Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library in 2014. She has been a judge for several literary awards, and chairs regularly at book festivals. Her agent is Ian Drury at Sheil Land Associates. You can find her on Twitter @LesleyMcDowell1, or on Instagram at lesleywrites.

Mark Leggatt

Mark is a manuscript assessor, editor and author who’s twice topped Blackwell’s bestseller list. He began his writing career taking advice and receiving manuscript assessments by professionals on his own debut novel, so he knows what it takes to become published and secure an agent. He’s the author of five books and an Associate Editor for Fledgling Press. Mark has produced detailed editorial reports, manuscript assessments and submission reviews for clients in the UK, EU and North America. He also provides expert advice on submission packs, and how to grab the reader from the first page of your novel. As an author, he is represented by literary agent Jon Wood at RCW. Mark has appeared at literary festivals in the UK, US and the EU, and also performs improv as part of the author touring group Four Blokes in Search of a Plot.

Jenny Knight

Jenny Knight is a prize-winning writer of short story and memoir and a contributor to the celebrated Common People anthology, edited by Kit de Waal (Unbound, May 2019). An experienced editor, copy-writer, copy-editor and proofreader, she’s enjoyed 25 years’ successful freelancing for publishers including Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Routledge, and her writing on writing and the publishing world has appeared in Book Machine, National Writers’ Centre and Restless. Jenny was selected for PenguinRH WriteNow 2018, a 2019 Arts Council/TLC Award, is a NCW Case Study and has won or been shortlisted in competitions including Bridport, Fish, Arvon, ACE/Escalator, Yeovil, Riptide and SWWJ. She has a degree in English Literature and Drama, studied Creative Writing at UEA and is never happier than when writing, critiquing other writers or reading a diverse range of fiction and non-fiction. Find Jenny on Twitter here: @knightjennyk

Sam Jordison

Sam Jordison is a co-director at Galley Beggar Press, the award winning indy press. He has extensive editorial experience and knowledge of the book world – and has also been on the other side of the fence, having written several best selling works of non-fiction, including the notorious Crap Towns series (Boxtree, Pan Macmilan), the best-selling I Spy for adults series, a book about Literary London (co-authored with Eloise Millar), political books like Enemies Of The People and The 10 Worst Of Everything. As a journalist, he mainly writes for The Guardian, and mainly about books. He runs the Not The Booker Prize, and the Guardian’s online book club, The Reading Group. He has also taught about publishing on several Creative Writing university courses, as well as teaching a course on publishing at Greenwich University and journalism at UEA. Find Sam on Twitter here: @samjordison

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

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

Julie Hoyle

During a very successful teaching career spanning thirty-four years, Julie enhanced her editing skills while assisting students in reaching their goals before entering the publishing world. Her copy-editing and proofreading experience in publishing is wide and varied. She edits fiction in a broad range of genres from crime to romance, from fantasy to comedy, short stories, poetry collections and children’s books She has worked on non-fiction texts and case studies in the areas of psychology, self-help and autobiographies. She has also worked on educational publications such as a new reading scheme, KS1, 2 and 3 maths workbooks, student planners and teaching posters. Julie has written numerous book blurbs which have been complimented by the authors. She is a very conscientious worker, has a great eye for detail and always hits her deadlines. Julie is married with a grown-up son. She is a keen Masters’ swimmer, competing in events all around the country and abroad.

Rebecca Horsfall

Rebecca been a fiction editor and creative-writing tutor for well over a decade, working with upwards of 150 authors in a broad range of genres. She is the author of the bestselling epic character-driven novel, Dancing on Thorns, which was published by Random House in the UK and USA to wide critical acclaim in 2005. Before that, she was a script supervisor and editor in the West End theatre for many years. In addition to her own writing and editing, Rebecca has given lectures and masterclasses in fiction writing for a number of colleges and organisations and is a regular teacher at Jericho Writers’ Festival of Writing, running courses and workshops in topics that include character creation, plotting, problem solving, and literary style. Many of Rebecca’s editing clients over the years have gone on to sign with agents and achieve publication. She is happy to work long term with authors on multiple manuscripts. Find Rebecca on Twitter here: @HorsfallAuthor

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.

Rosie Fiore

Rosie has worked as a novelist and as writer, mentor and editor in theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market for more than 30 years. Rosie Fiore was born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a teacher of creative writing, effective business writing and English. She has also studied playwriting with the National Theatre. Her most recent dramatic project was a stage adaptation of Dracula. Rosie’s has had eight novels published. She is published by Struik, Quercus and Allen & Unwin under her own name. This Year’s Black and Babies in Waiting were both longlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Award. Rosie is also published by Orion as Cass Hunter. The After Wife was translated into nine languages and optioned for a film in China. Find Rosie on Twitter here: @rosiefiore

Tanya Byrne

Tanya Byrne is an award-winning author of four contemporary YA novels (Hodder), the first of which earned her a nomination for New Writer of the Year at the National Book Awards. Her books have been published around the world and have been translated into Spanish, German, Italian and Polish. She has also contributed to several short story anthologies, including A Change is Gonna Come, which won the YA Book Prize and was the Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week. Last year, she wrote Floored, a collaborative novel with Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood. Her agent, Claire Wilson at Rogers, Coleridge & White, represents some of the best children’s and YA authors in the country, including Katherine Rundell and Sally Green. A regular at festivals like YALC, Hay and the Edinburgh Festival, Tanya is passionate about diversity in publishing and encouraging writers from marginalised backgrounds to tell their stories. Find Tanya on Twitter here: @tanyabyrne

Megan Collins

Megan Collins is the author of the psychological thrillers The Winter Sister (2019), Behind the Red Door (2020), and The Family Plot (2021), all published by Atria/Simon & Schuster. Megan holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, and she taught creative writing for twelve years. Throughout her teaching career, she guided many of her students through the process of writing and revising work that then went on to win prestigious regional, state, and national writing competitions. Many of her former students have since had their work published. Megan is also the managing editor of 3Elements Review, a prompt-based literary magazine, where one of her duties is to provide extensive feedback (on the developmental and line-edit levels) to submitters who pay for such services. Find Megan on Twitter here: @ImMeganCollins

Wes Brown

Wes Brown is a writer, editor and researcher with a background in the publishing industry and many years’ experience of teaching creative writing. Wes was the founding editor of Dead Ink Books, young writer’s co-ordinator at the National Association of Writers in Education and has worked freelance for many literature organisations. He has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, New Humanist and his debut novel, Breaking Kayfabe, will be published by Bluemoose in 2023. Wes has taught Creative Writing at the University of Kent, the University of East London and the City Lit and he’s also been awarded a CHASE PhD scholarship to research Narrative Non-Fiction. In 2021, he undertook research at the University of East Anglia as part of a collaborative project investigating the future of literature and the written word. Wes strongly believes in working with authors to achieve their own artistic ideals rather than project his own. Wes loves non-fiction narratives, memoirs, literary and speculative fiction. Find Wes on Twitter here: @wesbrownwriter

Richard Blandford

Described by acclaimed short story writer and novelist Dan Rhodes as ‘one of my favourites’, Richard is the author of Hound Dog (Jonathan Cape), the story of a depraved Elvis impersonator on the run. Mixing dark humour with scenarios both banal and fantastic, Richard Blandford has walked the line between the comic and the horrifying since 2004. He is the author of the Elvis impersonator novel Hound Dog (‘Squalid, raucous and wildly entertaining’ – Dan Rhodes), the coming-of-age tale Flying Saucer Rock & Roll (‘He has captured everything’ – John Higgs), and Whatever You Are Is Beautiful, a new eBook about an illness that turns people into superheroes. He is also the author of the short story collections The Shuffle and Erotic Nightmares. His art survey London in the Company of Painters was published by Laurence King in 2017 and was listed by Martin Gayford as one of the art books of the year in The Spectator, and a London book of the year in the Evening Standard. A comic strip horror story, ‘The Fixer’, appeared in David Lloyd’s online comics anthology Aces Weekly in 2019. He has written articles for the Guardian website and the art periodicals Frieze and Elephant, and has been a literary consultant since 2007. Find Richard on Twitter here: @rblandford

Natasha Bell

Natasha is an author, PhD researcher and creative writing teacher. Her debut psychological thriller, His Perfect Wife, was published by Penguin in 2018 and her second novel, This Nowhere Place came out in 2021. She’s also published short stories, memoir and creative non-fiction. Stylist labelled His Perfect Wife ‘2018’s most gripping psychological thriller,’ The Guardian called it ‘an astutely written, complex debut,’ and Publisher’s Weekly awarded it a starred review. Natasha holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths and is currently working on a practice-led PhD in autofiction. She teaches introductory and novel-writing courses at City Lit, mentors for The Riff Raff, and previously worked as a sub-editor at The Press Association. She loves narrative in all forms, but has a particular passion for psychological suspense, women’s fiction and stories that blur the line between truth and fiction. She’s lived in the US and the UK, and currently resides in south-east London. Find Natasha on Twitter here: @byTashB

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

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