Thalia Suzuma - Editor
Editor with over a decade's experience working with best-selling authors at Pan Macmillan and HarperCollins . I'd love to hear from you.
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Overview
I love working with authors. I've been an editor for well over ten years and have been lucky enough to work for Pan Macmillan, HarperCollins and Bloomsbury. My experience ranges from publishing Sunday Times bestsellers to heading up a list of literary fiction in translation.
Amplifying the voices of those with stories worth telling has always been my professional mission. I am constantly on the lookout for innovative ways to best do this and reach the biggest audience possible. I currently focus on the earliest stage of the trade publishing process – choosing what to publish, and I help a variety of clients scout for new writing talent. Clients include The Literary Consultancy (based at the Free Word Centre in London), Daniela Schlingmann Literary Scouting, Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, HBKU Press, Stylist Arabia, Motivate Publishing. I'm also the publishing director for The Dreamwork Collective, a start up publishing house in the Middle East committed to sharing under-represented voices from the region with the world.
Whatever stage your manuscript is at, if you have a story worth telling, I would love to hear from you.
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Health & Wellbeing
Fiction
Coming of Age
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Young Adult
Work experience
Head of Publishing
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation
March, 2014
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January, 2016
(almost 2 years)
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (BQFP) was a joint venture between Bloomsbury Publishing and Qatar Foundation. The role involved developing and hand-publishing a list of prize-winning fiction and non-fiction writers, identifying talent from across the Middle East, and editing translations to the highest possible standard.
Maternity cover for Publishing Director
HarperCollins
July, 2011
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March, 2014
(over 2 years)
I provided maternity cover for the Publishing Director of the Women's Fiction list which included some of the global company’s highest-profile authors: Cecelia Ahern, Lauren Weisberger and Barbara Taylor Bradford. Organising, analysing and acting on market consumer research was essential in the maintenance and growth of sales for these major brand names. I was responsible for managing every part of the publishing process – from contract renewal and first structural edit to revises checking and coordinating the marketing, sales and publicity teams.
Editor
Pan Macmillan
June, 2007
–
July, 2011
(about 4 years)
I divided my time between the women’s fiction list and the crime/thriller list – this was a perfect crash course in commercial fiction publishing. Authors worked with included China Miéville, Jeffrey Archer, Ken Follett, Wilbur Smith, David Baldacci, James Barrington, Lucy Diamond, Karen Swan, and Margaret Dickinson.
Portfolio (20 selected works)
Bitter Almonds
Lilas Taha
'A LOVE STORY AND AN ENTHRALLING MIX OF HISTORY AND PALESTINIAN CULTURE...RIVETING' - The Lady 'A BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING TRIBUTE TO THE ENDURING POWER OF LOVE' - Ann Weisgarber, The Personal History of Rachel Dupree He is orphaned at birth, born into displacement and chaos. He has only one thing to hold on to: a love beyond his reach that propels him forward. She is young and idealistic, and tri... read more
The Hidden Light of Objects
Mai Al-Nakib
Hidden Light of Objects
Telepathy
Amir Tag Elsir
Telepathy
Blue Lorries
Radwa Ashour
The Illusionists
Rosie Thomas
Hidden (Quick Reads 2014)
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Mother, Mother: Psychological suspense for fans of ROOM
Koren Zailckas
An electrifying debut novel about what happens when the one who should love you the most becomes your worst enemy. Meet the Hurst Family. Meet Violet Hurst - 16 years old, beautiful and brilliant. So why is she being accused of being a danger to herself and others? Meet her brother Will Hurst ? the smartest and sweetest twelve-year old boy around. But does he really need all that medication he... read more
The Gravity of Birds
Tracy Guzeman
Ghostwritten
Isabel Wolff
About a Girl (Tess Brookes Series, Book 1)
Lindsey Kelk
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I Heart London (I Heart Series, Book 5)
Lindsey Kelk
Paperback. Pub Date :2012-06-07 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher:! HarperCollins UK The perfect London read for this summer Angela's back on home turf - and in her biggest romantic scrape yet ... Angela Clark has fallen in love with New York - and it's starting to love her back.But when she's summoned home to London. she's at risk of losing her shiny new life to never-ending English rain... read more
One Hundred Names
Cecelia Ahern
Title: One Hundred Names <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Cecelia Ahern <>Publisher: Harper Collins Paperbacks
Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero (Quick Reads 2014)
Harriet Evans
The Honey Queen
Cathy Kelly
To discover the sweetest things in life, you sometimes have to lose your way...It s easy to fall in love with the beautiful town of Redstone - the locals wave and chat to each other, the shops and cafes are full of cheerful hustle and bustle. And amidst all this activity, two women believe they are getting on just fine. Francesca s boundless energy help her to take everything in her stride, in... read more
The Book of Lost and Found
Lucy Foley
Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton.In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that . . .LONDON, 1986: Bequeathed an old portrait by her grandmother, Kate Darling begins to unpick the tapestry of her family’s secret history in a journey that takes her to Corsica, Paris and back... read more
Cavendon Hall (Cavendon Chronicles, Book 1)
Barbara Taylor Bradford
A sweeping saga set around the aristocratic Ingham family of Cavendon Hall and the Swanns who serve them, set on the eve of World War 1.Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve themOne stately home: Cavendon Hall, a grand imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire DalesA society beauty: Lady Daphne Ingham is the most beautiful of the Earl’s daugthers. Bei... read more
The Bamboo Stalk
Saud Alsanousi
Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid bows to family and social pressure, and sends her back home with... read more
Golda Slept Here
Suad Amiry
Politics enters the lives of every family in Palestine. In this literary-historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the emigre Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East. Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any tr... read more
The House of Frozen Dreams
Seré Prince Halverson
Set in the stunning, eerie Alaskan mountains, this is a love story you will never forget.Step into the home that lay empty for decades…After a family tragedy, the old Alaskan homestead lay abandoned for two decades, until the one person who need it most came looking. What Kache found was more than a house full of old memories and buried secrets: he found Nadia, who had been hiding from the wor... read more
Prima Donna
Karen Swan
Breaking the rules was what she liked best. That was her sport. Renegade, rebel, bad girl. Getting away with it. Pia Soto is the sexy and glamorous prima ballerina, the Brazilian bombshell who's shaking up the ballet world with her outrageous behaviour. She's wild and precocious, and she's a survivor. She's determined that no man will ever control her destiny. But ruthless financier Will Silk ... read more
Thalia has 30 reviews
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Thalia was spot on with her criticisms of my novel, and has brought far more to the novel than I felt I could achieve. She offered the right amount of praise and picking out the strongest points in my writing, along with some creative ideas for how certain aspects should be improved.
What I most appreciated were the challenging questions she offered me, about how I wanted the reader to feel, w...
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Gideon Burrows, July 2021
An extremely positive experience. Thalia was a thoughtful and scrupulous editor whose ideas gave me much to think about and who picked up inconsistences and ambiguities in my script very efficiently.
Sarah Brewin, June 2021
Thalia had incredible insight into my work and understood my writing's intention greater than anyone else. She asked poignant questions pushing my own thought process as well as gave insightful advice to the larger movements of the story. On top of this, she was able to provide an editting style that offered simplicity and clarity to my overlycomplicated manuscript.
Thalia was professional...
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Paul Coleman, September 2020
Working with Thalia has been so helpful and encouraging! She was very prompt in responding to my request for a quote and my questions, and treated my work with a lot of care and attention. What drew me to collaborate with her was that she responded to my sample pages with a lot of intention and engagement, even when there were only a couple of pages. Her developmental and line editing service w...
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Anna Chen, December 2019
Thalia is a fantastic editor. She worked on the developmental edit of my debut novel. This meant I had a lot of questions; before, during, and after the edit. However, if she found me annoying, which I could understand, she never showed it. She was always quick to reply and answer my questions and I never felt like I was imposing on her.
She delivered her edits on time and I was very happy wi...
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Michael Reit, November 2019
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