Overview
I enjoy collaborating with authors, assisting them to refine their manuscripts and prepare them for publication.My experience working for over a decade for an internationally renowned publishing company has given me a strong understanding of what is required to achieve successful publication, particularly in relation to commercial fiction and narrative non-fiction.I have worked on thrillers by authors such as Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly and John Grisham; women’s fiction authors such as Maeve Binchy and Sarah Addison Allen, and autobiographies by Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama and Kate McCann.I have a strong ability to assess a manuscript, to determine whether or not it is ready to send to a publisher. If it’s not quite ready, I am able to outline the steps required to prepare your manuscript for successful publication.I have an excellent understanding of narrative structure, and can assist with major or minor structural editing, as required. I am also available for copyediting.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Languages
English (AUS)
English (UK)
English (US)
Certifications
- Postgraduate Certificate in Editing and Publishing
- Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and Australian Literature
- Short course in Search Engine Optimisation
Work experience
Self-employed
Mar, 2018 —
Present
I'm currently managing a freelance editorial business that provides manuscript assessment, structural editing, copyediting, proofreading, book condensation and digital content editing. My editorial business also offers assistance with writing memoirs, and recommends books.
Reader's Digest Australia
Feb, 2014 —
Feb, 2018
(about 4 years)
My position as a Senior Editor at Reader's Digest Australia involved producing a commercial fiction series. Our series produced 28 titles per year, many by bestselling authors such as Lee Child, John Grisham, Robert Crais, David Baldacci, Nicholas Sparks, Sarah Addison Allen and many more. My role was to select the most compelling new commercial fiction, and to produce the series, with the assistance of a team of editors, designers and proofreaders.
Reader's Digest Australia
Jul, 2006 —
Feb, 2014
(over 7 years)
My role as an Editor at Reader's Digest Australia involved assisting to produce a commercial fiction series and a narrative non-fiction series. I was responsible for ordering the latest commercial fiction and non-fiction titles, and arranging to have a team of reviewers choose the most gripping stories. I also edited and proofread titles for our narrative non-fiction series, including works by Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, John Cleese, Kate McCann and Andre Agassi, as well as many others.
Portfolio
The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doo... read more
New York Times BestsellerA tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the ba... read more
Now a New York Times Bestseller From the author of the beloved bestseller Garden Spells comes a beautiful, haunting story of old loves and new, and the power of the connections that bind us forever... The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture p... read more
"I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon . . ."Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. Though terrified, she begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she ... read more
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up…You’ll love [her] sleight of hand…A secret on every page.” ―The New York Times“One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read… Every word is near pe... read more
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD Featured in TheSkimm An Entertainment Weekly “Summer Must List” Pick A New York Post “Summer Must-Read” Pick Included in Summer Book Guides from Bustle, Oprah.com, PureWow,... read more
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot . . . very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs ... read more
Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller.A tragedy occurs at a small concert v... read more
Private Investigator Elvis Cole learns that LA fires bring more than heat, they bring his old friend Joe Pike and the past. Cole’s fight to clear his name brings murder and corruption terrifyingly close to home.It’s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles ar... read more
John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy’s DNA. In this rollicking memoir, ... read more
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Kate McCann's personal account of the agonizing search for her missing daughter "The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and taken with heavy hearts. My reason for writing it is simple: to give an account of the truth. Writing this memoir ha... read more
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he k... read more
The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa... read more
Fresh from cooking school, Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet are hot new additions to the Dublin scene with their new catering company, but some people in the city, including their families, are not so keen on the idea of their success. 500,000 first printing.
A remarkable story of everlasting love, about two couples whose lives intersect in profound and surprising ways, in the tradition of Nicholas Sparks's beloved #1 New York Times bestselling first novel, The Notebook.Ira Levinson is in trouble. Ninety-one years ... read more
From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes a story of the Waverley family, in a novel as sparkling as the first dusting of frost on new-fallen leaves...It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. As temperatur... read more
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss an original essay by John Grisham in the back of the book. John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. One of the most popular novels of our time, A Time to Kill established John Grisham as the master of the legal... read more
A supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder investigation in Stay Hidden, the intricately-plotted new thriller from Paul Doiron featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch.A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off ... read more
Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightma... read more
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incomparable hero of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back takes readers to school in his most explosive novel yet. After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, discover the thrillers that The New York Times calls “utterly addictive.”D... read more
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