Susanna Forrest – Editor

"Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing." – Joan Didion.

During twenty years in publishing I've edited authors, shaped and polished books, shepherded writers through to completion of their work, typed contracts and worked the tills at a bookshop to see what the public really buy. Having worked with a wide range of publishers, I've edited across genres.

I'm here to help you find a path through your book, teasing out clear themes and arcs that give it depth and dynamism. I'll also help you perfect the text line by line in a way that enables you to build your own skillbase. I spend a lot of time working with authors of biographies and memoirs in my evening classes but I also love history-, culture- and nature-based titles. I'm especially interested in helping academics turn their scholarship into mainstream publications.

Let's see what we can achieve together!