An experienced and empathic editor, teacher and author with 20 years publishing experience. Let me help you bring your book to market.
Being an author who also works in publishing is a bit like being a doctor when you have a disease: you know what everybody should be doing but you don't want to be that awkward author/patient that makes a fuss and spoils their day— at least that’s how I've felt on more than one occasion! However, the experience I've gained through 20 years in the industry while also pursuing a writing career has put me in a good position to diagnose both what you need in terms of support as an author and what your manuscript requires in order to find a publisher.
I specialise in non-fiction, particularly art, travel, history, music and memoir. As a developmental editor I get great satisfaction from seeing a project that was previously in difficulties reach the finish line. Having been edited myself, I know how important it is to gain a relationship of trust with the author I'm working with, built on the right combination of affirmation, insight and straight-talking when needed.
One-to-one supervision of MA students on creative writing programme, teaching, marking final submissions of creative writing projects
I provide either detailed publishing reports on books outlining the steps the author needs to take, or structural edits on the manuscript itself, depending on the project. Author liaison is a key part of this role.
Also work as a managing editor, liaising with all stakeholders, from printer to designer to authors, particularly on exhibition catalogues
My role included identifying authors with promising projects to bring to the Press; helping first-time authors think through and shape their proposals; editing the sample chapters that accompanied such proposals
I was responsible for global sales and distribution of Tate titles; press and publicity; foreign rights sales; liaison with the publishing departments of museums around the world that took Tate touring exhibitions; representing Tate at book fairs in London, Frankfurt and the USA.
Conrad, Peter
Saumarez Smith, Charles
de Albornoz, Cristina Carrillo, Calatrava, Santiago
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
As featured on ITV News and Radio 4's Today programme'This book could not come at a more appropriate moment . . . Matchless man: hugely important book' Joanna Lumley'A great champion of environmental activism . . . His extensive travels have given him many insights' Sir Ranulph Fiennes'This is a fabulous book . . . It's like pumping a mountain stream through your head' Sir Tim SmitA powerful p... read more
Christopher Finnigan
Travelling from Madrid to The Valley of the Fallen, through Castile and León and across the fiercely contested region of Catalonia, Christopher Finnigan meets a remarkable cast of characters behind some of the biggest political events Spain has witnessed in decades. Whether it is the indignados left-wing activists rethinking society, the everyday citizens sitting in parliament, or the Catalan ... read more
Andrew Grumbridge, Mr Vince Raison
Ridgway, Emma, Salthe, Vibece, Åsebø, Sigrun, Blakinger, John R., Pringle, Emily
Carroll, Khadija von Zinnenburg
Attlee, James, Chapman, Clare, Ridgway, Emma, Kapoor, Anish, Bhabha, Homi K, Kristeva, Julia, Kemp, Martin, Hilty, Greg, Rosenthal, Norman, Knight, Chris
Jonathan Fisher, April 2021
Reply from James Attlee
Stefan Sullivan, March 2021
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Professional editor and national award-winning author with a wide range of experience in fiction and nonfiction publishing.
San Diego, CA, USA
Freelance editor and author, working in LBGTQ+ fiction/nonfiction, novels, short form, nonfiction and academic/specialist writing.
York, UK