Overview
Services
Fiction
Languages
Work experience
Freelance
- Structural editing and copywriting for publishers including Little, Brown, HarperCollins, Hachette, Atlantic Books, Harlequin UK and bespoke digital publishers Bookouture.
- Broad editorial experience encompasses women’s fiction, ‘bookclub’, historical, crime/ thriller, young and new adult, romance and erotica.
- Edits vary from helping best-selling authors shape their latest manuscripts to guiding raw and exciting new talent to publication standard.
- Consulting for major publishers - from management coaching to setting up digital first fiction imprints.
- Working with private clients looking to submit to agents, or hone editorial for self-publishing, and working with agents on manuscripts prior to submitting to publishers. One half of editorial consultant duo Ruston Hutton.
MIRA Books, Harlequin UK
- Led the long term strategy of the MIRA fiction list, frontlist (approx. 40 titles) and backlist, scheduling across all channels (retail, digital and direct to consumer) and day to day management of the list.
- Commissioning and acquiring new talent and managing author brands in the UK.
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Managed the highest grossing global romance series - in UK and NA markets - and developed global editorial strategy.
Managed the careers of thirty authors. Successfully built authors to the top five sales ranking in series romance, hitting the USA Bestseller list and garnering two Rita nominations and one Ruby award.