Alison Jones – Editor

I work with businesses and organizations wanting to build their brand and reach. My focus is on clarifying the strategic purpose for the book, coordinating content creation and publication with core business activities, and creating superb books with professional, polished editorial and production standards.

I also work with publishers as an executive coach and consultant (particularly for digital and innovation strategy), and deliver training to the industry on content strategy, business models and innovation. I partner with publishers to coach and support authors, particularly of business books.

Member of the Independent Publishers Guild board, Affiliate with Maverick Publishing Services, Associate with training and creative agency Thread at the University of Falmouth, and Associate Lecturer with Brookes University, teaching on their MA in Publishing.

Reference and Online Publisher, Head of Digital Development and most recently Director of Innovation Strategy at Palgrave Macmillan. Responsible for major reference works including The Statesman's Yearbook and The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, project lead for the Palgrave Connect ebook platform.

Development editor for non-lexical reference books including the Oxford Companions series. Project initiator for Oxford Reference Online.

Editor on Travel and Adventures series, working closely with designers and picture researchers.

Editor of the Chambers Dictionary of Quotations and other reference books.