Rosie’s has had eight novels published. She is published by Struik, Quercus and Allen & Unwin under her own name. This Year’s Black and Babies in Waiting were both longlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Award. Rosie is also published by Orion as Cass Hunter. The After Wife was translated into nine languages and optioned for a film in China.

Lindsey Alexander (she/her) started her 20-year editing career at HarperCollins US. She’s helped authors across a range of genres launch their careers and has worked with numerous publishers and literary agencies to develop and hone some of the best-loved books of the last two decades. A number of books she’s edited have been optioned for film and published in translation.

Andrew Miller is the author of ten novels, from Ingenious Pain in 1997 to The Land in Winter, published in 2024. His work has received a number of prizes including the International IMPAC, the Grinzane Cavour prize in Italy and the Costa Book of Year. His novel Oxygen was shortlisted for the Booker prize. Pure and Now We Shall Be Entirely Free were both shortlisted for the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction. His writing has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Philip Womack is the author of nine critically acclaimed fantasy books for children. His latest, Ghostlord, was released in May 2023. His first work of non-fiction for adults, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, was published in 2020, being a lively guide to the world and literature of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Write Your Own Myths, a Creative Writing guide for children, appeared in 2021.

Natasha is an author, researcher, and creative writing tutor. Her novels His Perfect Wife and This Nowhere Place are available from Penguin. She’s also published a memoir with HarperCollins and short stories in a variety of journals and anthologies. She holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths and is finishing off a practice-led PhD in autofiction.

Helen Francis has worked in publishing for nearly 20 years, in both publishing houses and literary agencies. Previously, Helen worked as a fiction project editor at Faber and Faber for eight years, and a commissioning fiction editor at Head of Zeus for two. She also ran the Classics list at Vintage, Penguin Random House, and was a freelance commissioning editor for Arcadia Books.

Emma is the author of highly acclaimed book club fiction novels and is known for mixing humour with darker emotional themes. Her debut, The Songs of Us, was snapped up in multiple pre-empts and auctions and was short-listed for the RNA contemporary novel of the year award. Her work has since been translated into seven different languages.

Megan Collins is the author of a number of psychological thrillers all published by Atria/Simon & Schuster. Megan holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, and has taught creative writing at both the high school and college levels. Many of her former students have since had their work published and won prestigious writing competitions. Megan is also the managing editor of 3Elements Review, a prompt-based literary magazine.

Sam Jordison is a publisher, author, and journalist. He is the co-director of the award-winning Galley Beggar Press, publishers of Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport and Alex Pheby’s Mordew. He has written more than a dozen non-fiction titles including Enemies of the People, a commentary on the folks who brought us Brexit and Trump, and Literary London.

Liz is a writer, editor and writing coach interested in fiction of all kinds, from sci-fi to historical. Her first two novels are science fiction; her third is a literary genre-fusion, written for a PhD in Creative Writing; her fourth work-in-progress is a triple timeline gothic thriller. Liz also collaborates with international literary agencies to accelerate the submission process for writers of talent.

Eliza (E.) Knight is an award-winning, USA Today and internationally bestselling hybrid (traditionally and self-published) author of over eighty titles. Her latest novel, Starring Adele Astaire, was released this year with William Morrow (HarperCollins). Her books have been translated into several languages.

Anna Vaught is an English teacher, mentor and author of several books, including 2020’s novel Saving Lucia and short fiction collection, Famished. 2023 saw Saving Lucia published to national acclaim in Italy as Bang Bang Mussolini, memoir These Envoys of Beauty and the magical realism novel The Zebra and Lord Jones. Anna’s shorter and multi-genre works are widely published in journals, magazines and anthologies.

Holly Seddon is an international bestselling author and has worked in London as a journalist and editor. She also works with Jericho Writers as an Editor and Mentor. She has an MA in Creating Writing and lives in Kent with her family. Alongside fellow author Gillian McAllister, Holly co-hosts the popular Honest Authors Podcast.

Debi is the author of five published novels, the first two published by Orion and then republished under her own imprint, along with the next three in the series. Since 2006, Debi has worked as a freelance editor and creative writing tutor, including running the phenomenally successful Jericho Writers’ Self-Edit Your Novel course, together with Emma Darwin. She won the inaugural RNA Indie Editor of the Year Award in 2021. Debi also acts as a competition judge and was a reader for the Costa Short Story Awards.

Emma Darwin’s bestselling novels have been nominated for several awards including the Commonwealth Writers and RNA Novel of the Year. She is the author of Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction, the memoir This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin and her renowned blog ‘This Itch of Writing’. She currently teaches at Goldsmiths and Oxford University, and as a tutor, editor and mentor has long experience of helping writers to achieve publication.

Graham Bartlett was Brighton and Hove Police’s Chief Superintendent, a senior homicide detective and a public order and firearms commander before becoming a best-selling crime fiction and non-fiction author. His debut non-fiction, ‘Death Comes Knocking’, written with Peter James, was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. As a police procedure and crime advisor, Graham works with over 150 authors and TV writers, helping them inject authenticity into their work.

Kate Harrison is the bestselling author of 25 novels and non-fiction books, with a career spanning over two decades. Published under her own name as well as the pseudonyms Kate Helm and Eva Carter, she has mastered multiple genres. As a former TV news correspondent, she led a team developing and pitching new programmes and formats for the BBC, giving her a sharp understanding of how to grab attention and make an impact. Her guide for writers, ‘Pitch Power’, was published in 2019.

“I’ve learned a lot about achieving success as an indie author – as well as the pitfalls to avoid along the way! I can’t wait to share my expertise with you, empowering you to take control of your own writing career.

Two of my books were shortlisted for the prestigious BookBrunch Selfies Award for best independently published adult fiction in the UK, and I now combine self-publishing my work with licensing selective rights to it through publishers including Boldwood Books, DP Verlag and Saga Egmont.”

Harry Bingham has written over 15 books, including fiction and non-fiction. He’s been published by each of the world’s top 3 publishers. His books have appeared all over the world, have been adapted for TV and optioned by Hollywood. He has also had substantial literary acclaim.

He founded the Writers’ Workshop, our predecessor company, and has helped many thousands of authors over the years. He is currently writing the Fiona Griffiths crime series, which gives him deep joy.

Sophie is a Cotswolds-based psychological thriller author with an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes. Her debut novel ALL MY LIES was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2021. She has since had more psychological thrillers published by Hera, mostly recently WHAT STAYS UNSAID (May, 2024).

When not writing, Sophie can be mostly found on muddy walks with her husband and rescue dog or disappearing to Cornwall whenever possible.

Becca Day lives in the middle of the woods in Surrey with her husband, daughter and cocker spaniel. She studied acting at Guildford College and went on to start her own Murder Mystery theatre troupe. It was this move that inspired her love of crime fiction, and she has since thrown herself head first into psychological thriller writing.

Her debut, The Girl Beyond The Gate was an instant Amazon bestseller. She has since published a further three novels.

Laura Starkey is the queen of unputdownable and supremely funny romantic comedy, as well as a member of our Marketing Team here at Jericho. Laura studied English
Related Literature at the University of York, then spent several years as a secondary school teacher before going on to work as a digital copywriter, editor and content designer.

LOVE OFF SCRIPT, Laura’s fourth novel, will be published on 25 March 2025 by Embla.

Melvin Burgess is a British writer of children’s fiction. He became famous in 1998 with the publication of Junk, about heroin-addicted teenagers on the streets of Bristol. In Britain, Junk became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year’s best children’s book by a British author. For the 10th anniversary in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.

Gwyn GB is an Amazon best-selling author of crime mysteries and women’s fiction. She began writing at a young age and self-published her first book in 2016, reaching the Amazon top 20. With a background in journalism, UK national TV newsreading, and digital marketing, Gwyn co-launched the world’s first online book festival before Covid. Her debut novel Islands is published under Gwyn Garfield-Bennett, while she writes two crime series, including the Dr. Harrison Lane mysteries, as Gwyn GB.

Becky Hunter has over eight years of experience in publishing, with a background in both editorial and PR. She has worked with authors at major publishers like Transworld (Penguin Random House) and Headline (Hachette), and now offers freelance editorial and PR services. Becky also supports aspiring authors through consultancies like Jericho Writers and works with publishers such as Bloomsbury. She is a published author of a thriller with Orion and a women’s fiction title with Headline.