Overview
As an editor, literary agent and ghost-writer, I bring a unique set of perspectives from across the publishing spectrum and work with you to develop bespoke editorial packages expertly tailored to your specific needs.
I love working on novels at every stage of development. I can work with you at concept level, helping refine an idea and develop an action plan for getting your first draft nailed.
I can help you with an initial assessment phase, when you've got a first draft in hand, and what an idea of where to go next.
I can roll up my sleeves and get stuck into a deep-dive developmental edit, delivering a marked up manuscript with line-edits and margin notes.
I also offer a Book Coaching service which is a bit of everything rolled into one!
Whichever way you cut it, each service will help you hone your writing and storytelling skills, creating the best book you can and getting it one step closer to publication whether that be through traditional means, or self-publishing.
Honesty is the best approach to editorial work, as well as treating authors with the utmost respect. My primary objective is to help you reach a place where you’re writing your best work, and I love forging lifelong relationships with authors.
I am also an experienced ghost-writer. If you have an idea that you think would make a great story, but don’t know how to get it off of the ground, get in touch and we’ll collaborate to bring your idea to the page.
If you’re planning on self-publishing, I can provide guidance through the self-publishing process — from proofreading and typesetting your manuscript, to reaching readers and finessing your metadata and pricing.
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Self-employed
After working in international publishing for over a decade as a literary agent at Blake Friedmann and then as a commissioning editor at Orion Publishing Group, Tom now works as an editorial consultant offering a range of services and helping writers across the world achieve their goals.
He loves every opportunity to work with new authors and cater to their individual needs and can tailor packages to fit everyone. His real passion is editorial and development work - helping workshop projects, but also working projects up from first draft or from the seed of an idea and helping authors achieve their goals, making their manuscripts the best they can be.
Orion Publishing Group
I worked with a range of commercial crime, thriller and historical authors.
Jericho Writers
I aid a rolling roster of authors who are all at different stages of their novels. I offer guidance and advice as well as more hands-on workshopping of their stories. It's a custom fit experience, and depends on what each individual needs.
Blake Friedmann
I represented a range of authors, with a particular focus on upmarket and commercial crime/thriller fiction, as well as working with historical fiction and literary fiction authors.
I was deeply involved with editing each manuscript that I represented - at both developmental and copy-editing level. Some of these I took on as submission drafts and worked with the author to polish their prose ready for an editor to buy, and some I worked on from the outset - helping an author work up the seed of an idea to fully realised novel.
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