Books, outcomes and long-term editorial relationships.
Selected titles and publishing outcomes from more than sixteen years of working with fiction writers.
Strong editorial work continues beyond the report.
The real measure of an edit is what it enables the writer to do next: solve a structural problem, complete a stronger draft, approach agents with confidence, secure publication or return with a second novel because the first collaboration changed how they write.
I have contributed to traditionally published and independently published books, prize-listed titles and manuscripts that have gone on to attract agents and publishers.
Editorial work that reached readers.
A collection of books shaped through editorial collaboration, spanning traditional and independent publishing.
A Prayer Before Killing
One Weekend
The Fear of Silence
Finding Water
The Book of Lost Spirits
The Eye Files
Darkness Within the Forest
Retribution
I Trust You
Anita’s Lot
Just Kim
PiMm
A Journey Home
A Haunting on Birch Street
Smart
Losing Juliet
Boys in Tights
A Boy Called Hope
Now You See Me
The Hanged Man Rises
A Witch in Winter
The Dark Inside
The Spirit TrapDating App Revenge
Alison Watterson’s novel was acquired by Sandycove following a five-way auction, reported by The Bookseller.
Smart
Kim Slater’s novel was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
The Hanged Man Rises
Sarah Naughton’s novel was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award.
A Witch in Winter
Ruth Warburton’s novel was longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards.
Boys in Tights, Spies in Disguise
Kate Scott’s book won the Lancashire Fantastic Book Award.
Paws in Paris
Elizabeth Grieco’s revised novel went on to win multiple awards, including a Royal Dragonfly Book Award.
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