Emma Plater – Editor

I joined Transworld as a desk editor but soon started acquiring my own titles. I had the privilege of commissioning across several genres, including women’s fiction, crime, historical crime and saga. During my time there, several books that I published were Sunday Times and/or Kindle bestsellers.

Authors I published include Danielle Steel, Ariana Franklin, Victoria Lamb, Liza Marklund, Val Wood, Marcia Willett, Catherine Ryan Hyde, David Levien, Mary Jane Staples, Andrew Swanston, Stephanie Butland and Tom Cain. I was also involved in the editing process for the novels of SJ Bolton and Belinda Bauer.

I also held direct responsibility for Transworld’s Film & TV tie-in program. I worked on the tie-in campaigns for Captain Phillips and Jack Reacher: One Shot, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers.

I work across both the fiction (women's fiction, historical and crime) and non-fiction (health, cookery, autobiography and memoir) lists at the moment,

I was responsible for overseeing all recipe products for the Thermomix appliance within the UK, including cookbooks, magazines, newsletters and online recipe platform. I also wrote several cookery books for Thermomix.
I continued to work as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader for several publishing houses during this time.

At this reference and non-fiction publishing house, I managed the editorial process on every title as well as writing sales and marketing material. I also managed, edited and proofread a number of complex individual book projects including several cookery titles, The Real Ale Pub Guide and a series of illustrated reference guides published with You & Your Wedding and Prima Baby magazines.