Practised and perceptive editor, specialising in literary, sci-fi, LGBTQ+ fiction, crime and short stories.
-Reading and commissioning fiction.
-Editing manuscripts.
-Proofreading manuscripts.
-Supporting the director across all publication projects.
-Liaising with authors, agents designers and others involved in publication.
-Managing rights and contracts.
-Attending conferences and sales meetings.
-Managing and timelining publishing projects, from contracting, through editorial and cover design, to print and publication.
-Publicity and marketing, specialising in relationships with bookshops. .
-Producing thorough and fluent reports on books from a broad spectrum of genres, to tight deadlines.
-Providing detailed plot summary and a context conscious commentary
-Assesment with regard to manuscript's suitability for television or film adaptation.
Josh Malerman
The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box returns with a supernatural thriller of love, redemption, and murder.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK“This one haunts you for reasons you can’t quite put your finger on. . . . [Josh Malerman] defies categories and comparisons with other writers.”—Kirkus ReviewsCarol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times... read more
Steven Amsterdam
EVAN IS A SUICIDE ASSISTANT. HIS JOB IS LEGAL - JUST.'A poignant, sharply funny story that raises questions about life, death, and love' Louise O'Neill'You might just want to find and hug a nurse after finishing this thoughtful and ethically nuanced novel' GuardianEvan is the one at the hospital who hands out the last drink to those who ask for it. Evan's friends don't know what he does during... read more
S. R. Masters
I'll murder three strangers. And you'll know it was me . . . 'A blinder of a read' SUN'A scary, compelling and a completely original page-turner' IRISH INDEPENDENT'An original and gripping thriller' LAURA MARSHALLSummer 1997. When Will jokes about becoming a serial killer, his friends just laugh it off. But Adeline can't help but feel there's something darker lurking behind his words.Winter 20... read more
Sarah Stovell
She loves me. She loves me not.Bo Luxton has it all – a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name.Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend.When they meet at a writers’ retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops...Or does it?... read more
Cara Hunter
'Your next riveting, twisty read!' SHARI LAPENA'Reminded me of Hitchcock at his finest, where twist follows twist at a breath-taking pace' Daily Mail___________________________________DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE HIDING IN THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR? ___________________________________A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive.No one knows who they are - the woman can't speak, an... read more
Sophie Mackintosh
*This ebook edition includes an exclusive extract from Sophie Mackintosh's hotly anticipated second novel, Blue Ticket*British Vogue 'Star of the Future' for 2020Independent Best Books of the Decade 'A gripping, sinister fable' Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)'An extraordinary debut - otherworldly, luminous, precise' Guardian'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear ... read more
Michael Ridpath
What if you woke up to discover that you'd killed the only woman you had ever loved?Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terrible happened in his past, something that haunts him still. A young family friend, Clémence, is called in to help rekindle his memory. Retreating with Alastair to his remote cottage by a Scottish loch, Clémence f... read more
Andrew Michael Hurley
BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, METRO AND MAIL ON SUNDAY'The new master of menace' Sunday TimesAfter the blizzard of a century ago, it was weeks before anyone got in or out. By that time, what had happened there, what the Devil had done, was already fable.Devil's Day is a day for children now, of course. A tradition it's easy to mock, from the outside. But it's important to re... read more
Lisa Jewell
BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, AND A TOP RICHARD & JUDY SELECTIONOVER 1,000 5* REVIEWS – this is why readers love this book: 'Grips to the point of OBSESSION''My life STOPPED while I read this book''My heart was THUMPING in my chest''This is EDGE OF YOUR SEAT reading''This book left me BREATHLESS''Cancel all plans and BUY THIS BOOK'************************She was fifteen, her mother's gol... read more
Melba Escobar
A thought-provoking Colombian crime novel set in and around a beauty salon in Bogota ‘This delicate, merciless filleting of race and gender politics is highly recommended’ Guardian ‘A revelation. A rewarding read and an unexpected insight into a foreign society not often documented in novels. Treat yourself’ Crime Time ‘We thought we were bored of thrillers, but then we found House of Beauty .... read more
Bina Shah
“A haunting dystopian thriller” from the acclaimed author of A Season for Martyrs— “Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale won’t want to miss this one” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control i... read more
Caroline Lea
Shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown AwardIn the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca—The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers.“Grippe... read more
Reeder, Elizabeth
Overall, Sonia
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Pugh, Meryl
David Sparling, August 2022
L Grey S, October 2021
Richard Harper, January 2021
Tim Jarvis, September 2020
Chip Rich, June 2020
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Dedicated, creative editor with an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and years of experience at a top New York City literary agency.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Saskatoon, SK, Canada