Overview
I am an experienced editor, working both in house for an independent publisher commissioning and editing award-winning fiction and as a freelancer for a range of companies including HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.
I specialise in fiction of most genres (not fantasy or YA) and narrative non-fiction/memoir and offer a range of editorial services from line editing to structural editing and advice on submission to publishers and agents.
Books I have commissioned and edited over the last couple of years have:
- been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
- been runner-up for the SoA Paul Torday award 2024
- won the RNA Contemporary Fiction Novel award 2024
- won the Petrona Award 2023
- been picked for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club
- been reviewed in The Times and other publications
- been featured on Woman's Hour (BBC Radio 4)
I am used to working with experienced and debut authors.
As part of my editorial work I also offer sensitivity (or accuracy/authenticity) reading for books with Jewish characters or storylines including the Holocaust.
Below you will find a small sample of the many books I have worked on.
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Work experience
Self-employed
I work with both major publishers (including HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster) and individual authors. The services I offer include copy and line editing, structural/developmental editing and more and I work in most fiction genres (not SFF/YA) as well as memoir and narrative non-fiction.
Legend Press
Commissioning fiction for an award-winning independent publisher. Books I have acquired and edited over the last couple of years have been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, won the RNA Contemporary Romantic Novel Award and the Petrona Award, been runner-up for the Paul Torday Memorial Award, been selected as the Booksellers Association Fiction Book of the Month and for the BBC Radio 2 book club and have been featured on Woman's Hour, in The Times and in many magazines including Good Housekeeping and Prima.
My role involves assessing and acquiring submissions from both agented and unagented authors.
Portfolio
