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Josephine 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

Experienced editor within various genres, including Mind Body Spirit, travel, cookbooks, and fiction (YA, women's fiction and thrillers).

Genres: Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology, Humanities & Social Sciences, Sex & Relationships, Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Women's Fiction, and Action & Adventure.

Work experience:

  • Duncan Baird Publishers and Watkins Publishing
  • SPG Media
  • Rogers, Coleridge & White Literary Agency
  • Freelance

Emily 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

A Bookseller Rising Star and commercial fiction editor with 12 years editing experience at Penguin Random House, Hachette and HarperCollins

Genres: Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Quercus (Hachette UK)
  • Ebury & Del Rey (Penguin Random House)
  • Orion Publishing (Hachette UK)
  • Avon (HarperCollins)
  • Boldwood Books

Collaborative and experienced editor formerly at Hachette UK. Specialising in romance, thriller and crime.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Psychological Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, Chick Lit, and Women's Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Bookouture, Hachette UK
  • Bad Form Review
  • Self-employed

Experienced editor, previously at Pan Macmillan and HarperCollins. Passionate reader of crime, thrillers, romance and historical fiction

Genres: Thriller & Suspense, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult, and Contemporary Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Pan Macmillan
  • Constable & Robinson
  • HarperCollins

Editor and author of children's books and non-fiction, with 15+ years' experience editing for Penguin Random House, Hachette, DK and others.

Genres: Children's, Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Children’s Non-Fiction, Entertainment, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, and Action & Adventure.

Work experience:

  • Penguin Random House
  • Self-employed

20+ years in non-fiction book editing. I offer full editorial reports, fact-checking. copy editing and proofreading.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Nature, Travel, Historical Fiction, Fiction, and Mystery & Crime.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Highly experienced development and structural editor (non-fiction) with almost 20 years experience working in trade publishing.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology, Humanities & Social Sciences, Inspirational, Nature, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, and Sex & Relationships.

Work experience:

  • Simon & Schuster Ltd.

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Former agent and Audible commissioner of NYT Bestsellers with 12 years experience. All genres welcome, especially SFF and Historical!

Genres: Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy, Romance, Historical Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Thriller & Suspense, Cozy Mysteries, Mystery & Crime, and Romantic Comedy.

Work experience:

  • Audible UK
  • Realm
  • Carol Mann Agency
  • Lydia Shamah

Dick 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

Experienced London-based editor of fiction (novels, short stories), biography, art and culture.

Genres: Mystery & Crime, Fiction, and Humor & Comedy.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Waltham Forest Council

Literary agent at Colwill & Peddle, editing and representing a dynamic list of authors of fiction and non-fiction.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Nature, Political Science & Current Affairs, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Work experience:

  • Colwill & Peddle
  • Jo Unwin Literary Agency
  • First Story

16+ of experience in the children's publishing industry, editing and copy-editing. Feel free to get in touch to discuss your project.

Genres: Middle Grade, Children's, Fiction, Middle Grade Fantasy, Picture Books, Short Story, Young Adult, Children’s Non-Fiction, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Carlton Kids Publishing, London, UK

An accomplished non-fiction editor with four years of experience at Hachette UK, confident working across a range of genres.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Entertainment, Political Science & Current Affairs, and Travel.

Work experience:

  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Hachette UK
  • Quercus, Hachette UK

Let’s get your story out there. I’m a novelist and editor who’s been teaching creative writing for 15+ years, with a specialty in memoir.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Contemporary Fiction.

Work experience:

  • University of Toronto
  • Toronto International Festival of Authors.
  • HarperCollins, Penguin Random House

Food, travel, literary + YA fiction, and mental health editor. Worked at SAGE, Phaidon, TripSavvy, Narrative Magazine, and Red Hen Press.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, New Adult, Young Adult, Humor & Comedy, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, and Short Story.

Work experience:

  • SAGE Publications
  • Narrative Magazine
  • Phaidon Press
  • Jiwar Creation and Society (Barcelona) and Takt Kunstprojektraum (Berlin)
  • Red Hen Press
  • Self-employed

Historical, Romance and Crime Editor previously publishing bestselling and award-winning authors at Penguin Random House and Hachette.

Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Fiction, Cozy Mysteries, Mystery & Crime, Historical Mysteries, Historical Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, Chick Lit, Women's Fiction, and Romantic Comedy.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Orion Books, Hachette UK
  • Transworld, Penguin Random House UK

Experienced, attentive editor. Specialist in culture and travel. The Guardian, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Culture Trip, Time Out.

Genres: Travel, Non-Fiction, Music, Humanities & Social Sciences, Sports & Outdoors, Comics & Graphic Novels, and Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Lonely Planet
  • Rough Guides
  • Self-employed

I'm an editor, proofreader and writer with over 16 years’ experience, specialising in non-fiction and fiction children’s books.

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Middle Grade Fantasy, Middle Grade, Children’s Non-Fiction, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Evans Books
  • Buster Books
  • Carlton Children's Books
  • Welbeck Children's Books
  • Self-employed

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