My first fifteen years in publishing were spent in-house at Random House, Headline, Michael O’Mara and Guardian Books, working my way up from assistant to editorial director. For the last decade or so I’ve been a freelance editor/project manager/IP consultant, working with publishers big and small on a huge range of titles.  

 

In 2018, I joined the Wildfire team at Headline as a freelance project manager, creating a range of official Fortnite-branded books and co-ordinating the worldwide publication programme for the duration of the licence (over 1.6 million units sold). I now continue to work on a part-time basis for Wildfire as an IP consultant, alongside my freelance projects for other publishers. 

 

Freelance clients include: 

• Hachette Book Group (Headline/Hodder/Orion/Quercus) 

• Penguin Random House (Ebury/Cornerstone)

• Guardian Books

• Simon & Schuster

• Bloomsbury

• Bonnier Books

• Michael O’Mara Books

• Scholastic

• Faber & Faber

 

Brands I’ve worked with include: 

• Fortnite (Epic Games)

• The Kennel Club/Crufts

• The Royal Astronomical Society

• Horrible Histories

• Guardian News & Media

• Gladiators (Hungry Bear Media)

 

Interests: 

My love of books has been the thread that has run throughout my life, from my first Saturday job at the local library aged sixteen to my degree in English Literature; from my career in publishing to setting up a parental volunteer reading scheme at my kids’ primary school. When I haven’t got my nose in a book, I love going to gigs, checking out art exhibitions and running round Peckham Rye.

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