The best developmental editors for hire near London

Nira

London, United Kingdom

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Commercial editor helping authors turn ideas into books. Formerly Penguin Random House & HarperCollins with Sunday Times & NYT bestsellers.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Inspirational, True Crime, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Romance, and Women's Fiction.

Work experience:

• Ebury, Penguin Random House UK
• Icon Books, UK
• HQ, HarperCollins UK
• Quarto Publishing

Claire

London, United Kingdom

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Editor with 20 + years experience working with bestselling and award-winning authors - formerly Associate Publisher at Headline, Hachette UK

Genres: Humor & Comedy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, Women's Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Young Adult.

Work experience:

• Headline Publishing Group
• Self-employed

Elv

London, United Kingdom

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Editorial consultant with 20 years’ publishing experience. I can help you shape your book, grow as a writer and create a great proposal.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Poetry, Anthologies, Classics, Middle Grade, and Children's.

Work experience:

• OUP
• Penguin Random House
• Self-employed
• Scholastic
• Simon and Schuster
• Egmont

Anna

London, United Kingdom

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Award-winning editor and publisher with a near-obsessive eye and over twenty years experience in the industry.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror, Thriller & Suspense, Short Story, Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Women's Fiction.

Work experience:

• The Pigeonhole
• Random House
• Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
• Curtis Brown
• The Bookseller

Lisa

London, UK

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With 20 years' experience in academic publishing, I specialise in translating complex information into engaging text that is a joy to read.

Genres: History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Physics & Chemistry, Math & Science, LGBTQ Non-Fiction, and Entertainment.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Touch Group
• Biba
• Burson-Marsteller

Sue

London, UK

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Editor and award-winning author, 20+ years in UK and NZ publishing. Ex Dorling Kindersley and Pearson. Meticulous, fun and kind.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Picture Books, Children's, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Children’s Non-Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Mystery & Crime.

Work experience:

• Pearson
• Dorling Kindersley (London, UK)
• Self-employed

Melissa

London, UK

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I am a children's book editor with over four years of experience, working on picture books/activity books all the way up to YA fiction.

Genres: Middle Grade, Children's, Fiction, Middle Grade Fantasy, and Young Adult.

Work experience:

• Little Tiger Press
• Simon & Schuster Children's UK

Andrew

London, United Kingdom

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Friendly, precise editor and writing coach. Lots of experience with various genres. I'm an author, too. So I know what it's like.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, and Action & Adventure.

Anna

London, UK

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A passionate editor and agent - I love urgent, useful, beautiful non-fiction, and escapist, twisty, fantastical fiction with heart.

Genres: Women's Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, and Mystery & Crime.

Work experience:

• WME
• Abner Stein
• YMU

Kira

London, UK

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Fiction editor with 7 years of experience in publishing. I specialise in proofreading and copyediting SFF, romance and literary fiction!

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Psychological Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, Women's Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Romantic Fantasy, and Dark Romance.

Work experience:

• Orbit (imprint of Little, Brown Book Group)
• Hodder & Stoughton
• John Murray Press

Charles

London, UK

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I edit fiction and non-fiction. I have also written several biographies and books on film. Worked for Penguin, Viking, Hamish Hamilton.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Entertainment, Humanities & Social Sciences, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, and Classics.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Hamish Hamilton
• Penguin Books
• Fourmat Publishing

Laurel

London, UK

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An award-winning editor specializing in thrillers, women's and SFF. Bookseller rising star with over ten years of editorial experience.

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

Work experience:

• Canelo
• Bloomsbury Reader
• Holdfast Magazine
• Joffe Books
• Rebellion Publishing
• Orion Publishing
• Solaris Books

Amelia

London, UK

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Editor in fiction, international relations, politics, development, academic writing and working with English as a second language.

Genres: Political Science & Current Affairs, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• British Red Cross
• Save the Children UK

Rob

London, UK

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I am an experienced non-fiction editor working mainly within the arts, with a particular emphasis on pop culture.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Children’s Non-Fiction, Entertainment, and Music.

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Holly

London, UK

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Ruthlessly cheerful, aggressively optimistic: I'm an author's cheerleader, editor, advisor + promoter. Genres: thrillers, adventures + more

Genres: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Crime, and Thriller & Suspense.

Work experience:

• Bloomsbury
• Canongate Books Ltd & Severn House
• The Publishing Training Centre
• Self-employed

Soraya

London, UK

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A publisher with experience in trade, STM and self-publishing experienced in various editorial, production, and commissioning roles.

Genres: Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Non-Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Sex & Relationships, Parenting & Families, and LGBTQ Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Trigger Publishing
• Artech House Books

Roisin

London, UK

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Practised and perceptive editor and published author, specialising in literary, sci-fi, LGBTQ+ fiction, crime and short stories.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, LGBTQ Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Science Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Penned in the Margins
• Dialogue Scouting
• Self-employed