Overview
I'm an editor and writer, with many years of experience as a commissioning editor and publishing director at companies including Constable & Robinson, Michael O'Mara and (as author) Faber, W.W. Norton, Bloomsbury, Ebury and Atlantic. I have worked on a wide variety of subjects including art, history, science, mathematics, philosophy and most other areas, as well as fiction, memoir, crime, gifte and humour books. I have significant experience in the sales & marketing departments of several publishers, so understand their mindset, and have also been an author and ghostwriter myself, having written over 20 books (under my own name and pseudonyms). I do my best to take each manuscript and improve it as much as I can, in whatever way I think is necessary. I will always go the extra mile to deliver a great job.
I understand where you are coming from as a writer, whether you are a beginner or a published author; I will be direct and honest with you, and aim to deliver the best result I can.
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Self-employed
Michael O'Mara
Constable & Robinson
Quarto
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