Kieron Connolly – Editor

I have a breadth of experience across publishing, having worked as an editor, author and publicist, as well as having worked for a national newspaper buying serialisation rights on non-fiction books.

I have edited non-fiction books for adults and children on topics ranging from history to travel to photography. I have also been employed to write up numerous book proposals for publishers hoping to sell their ideas for the co-edition market.

In-house, I have worked as an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, Old Street Publishing, Amber Books Ltd and Weldon Owen, as well as a journalist for the Mail on Sunday.

I have worked as a commissioning editor, structural editor and copy editor, my clients including Harper Collins, Constable & Robinson, Omnibus Press, Elwin Street Productions and the United Nations Development Programme.

In addition, I have worked as a book publicist, getting coverage in the Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail, Daily Express and MailOnline, as well as monthly magazines and BBC Radio London.

From the other side, as a journalist, I worked for many years reading new non-fiction to find strong storylines – whether from celebrities or human interest stories – that could work as extracts for the Mail on Sunday and also the Daily Mail.

As an author, I have written popular history books, such as Dark History of Hollywood and Bloody History of America, as well as launching Amber Books' hugely popular Abandoned series, with Abandoned Places. For children, I have written books on mythology, such as World's Worst Monsters & Villains and Stories of the Constellations, as well as history, such as Disasters.

I have also written six humour books, including Pugs in Space, Fat Cats and Dogs Gone Bad.