Rebecca Horsfall
Rebecca Horsfall – Editor
Rebecca been a fiction editor and creative-writing tutor for well over a decade, working with upwards of 150 authors in a broad range of genres.
She is the author of the bestselling epic character-driven novel, Dancing on Thorns, which was published by Random House in the UK and USA to wide critical acclaim in 2005. Before that, she was a script supervisor and editor in the West End theatre for many years.
In addition to her own writing and editing, Rebecca has given lectures and masterclasses in fiction writing for a number of colleges and organisations and is a regular teacher at Jericho Writers’ Festival of Writing, running courses and workshops in topics that include character creation, plotting, problem solving, and literary style.
Many of Rebecca’s editing clients over the years have gone on to sign with agents and achieve publication. She is happy to work long term with authors on multiple manuscripts.
Genres Rebecca specialises in
Fiction:
Picture books |
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Children’s |
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Rebecca’s published books
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Julie Hoyle
Julie Hoyle – Editor
During a very successful teaching career spanning thirty-four years, Julie enhanced her editing skills while assisting students in reaching their goals before entering the publishing world.
Her copy-editing and proofreading experience in publishing is wide and varied. She edits fiction in a broad range of genres from crime to romance, from fantasy to comedy, short stories, poetry collections and children’s books She has worked on non-fiction texts and case studies in the areas of psychology, self-help and autobiographies. She has also worked on educational publications such as a new reading scheme, KS1, 2 and 3 maths workbooks, student planners and teaching posters.
Julie has written numerous book blurbs which have been complimented by the authors. She is a very conscientious worker, has a great eye for detail and always hits her deadlines.
Julie is married with a grown-up son. She is a keen Masters’ swimmer, competing in events all around the country and abroad.
Genres Julie specialises in
Fiction:
Contemporary |
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Literary (including ‘bookclub’) |
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Crime / Thriller / Action |
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Women’s |
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Romance & erotica |
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Science Fiction |
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Fantasy |
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Comic/Satire |
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Short stories & novellas |
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Picture books |
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Children’s |
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Young Adult |
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Non-Fiction:
Memoir/Autobiography |
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Other narrative non-fiction |
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Julie’s client successes
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Eleanor Hawken
Eleanor Hawken – Editor
Eleanor is an experienced fiction editor and has worked on titles across the various children’s markets, from Young Fiction to YA. She loves discovering fresh talent and working with new authors to hone their story-telling skills.
Eleanor has had nine novels for children published under her own name. Her titles include Sammy Feral’s Diaries of Weird (winner of the Lancashire Library’s Fantastic Book Award 2014), Felix Frost, The Blue Lady and The Grey Girl. Eleanor has also written under the pseudonym Zed Storm, devising writing and working as a series consultant on the Will Solvit books. She has also written Book of the Film novelisations for movie studios, and countless activity and story books for various Disney films and franchises in her days as an editor in licensed publishing.
Eleanor is married with two young sons. When not writing, editing or helping with maths homework she loves nothing more than to practise yoga!
Genres Eleanor specialises in
Fiction:
Children’s |
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Young Adult |
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Eleanor’s published books
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Pippa Goodhart
Pippa Goodhart – Editor
Pippa began her children’s book career as a bookseller and advisor to publishers before beginning to write books herself. She’s had over a hundred titles published, some of them award-winning.
From Saturday girl to manager of Heffers Children’s Bookshop, Pippa went on to work with top children’s book editors before beginning her own writing career. For the last quarter century, Pippa has combined writing her own books with teaching and critiquing to develop writing for children skills in others.
To date, Pippa has had a hundred and twenty picture books, early readers, and MG novels published. Best known is picture book You Choose, illustrated by Nick Sharratt, with sales well over a million copies, and awards from York Libraries and Mumsnet. The well-known Winnie the Witch storybooks are all written by Pippa under the name of ‘Laura Owen’. Pippa has had novels shortlisted for the Kathleen Fidler Award, the Smarties Prize, and The Young Telegraph Book of the Year. New novel, The Great Sea Dragon Discovery, has won the Young Quills Award for best children’s historical novel, 2019.
Pippa worked for OUP on novels by Jacqueline Wilson, Tim Bowler, Helena Pielichaty and Geraldine McCaughrean. Through Jericho Writers she has worked with writers such as Pip Jones and Catherine Emmett.
Genres Pippa specialises in
Fiction:
Picture books |
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Children’s |
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Pippa’s published books
Pippa’s client successes
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Wes Brown
Wes Brown – Editor
Wes Brown is a writer, editor and researcher with a background in the publishing industry and many years’ experience of teaching creative writing.
Wes was the founding editor of Dead Ink Books, young writer’s co-ordinator at the National Association of Writers in Education and has worked freelance for many literature organisations. He’s published novels, short stories, reviews and poems, and is currently writing an auto-fiction about his time as a pro-wrestler.
Wes has taught Creative Writing at the University of Kent, the University of East London and the City Lit and he’s also been awarded a CHASE PhD scholarship to research Narrative Non-Fiction. He is currently undertaking research at the University of East Anglia as part of a collaborative project investigating the future of literature and the written word.
Wes strongly believes in working with authors to achieve their own artistic ideals rather than project his own. Wes loves non-fiction narratives, memoirs, contemporary fiction and YA.
Genres Wes specialises in
Fiction:
Contemporary |
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Literary (including ‘bookclub’) |
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Crime / Thriller / Action |
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Short stories & novellas |
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Young Adult |
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Non-Fiction:
Memoir/Autobiography |
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Other narrative non-fiction |
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Subject-led non-fiction |
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Liz Monument
Liz Monument – Editor
Liz Monument specialised in adult education and taught in the creative arts field for 22 years before becoming a full-time novelist and editor.
Liz writes all kinds of fiction, including SF, historical, and horror. She believes that the mechanics of fiction are identical whether you’re writing literary, genre, or hybrids, and that the same principles can be applied to improve a manuscript regardless of its subject matter or style. Liz’s debut novel was short-listed for Mslexia Magazine’s unpublished novel competition in 2013, becoming a talking book in 2014, and a paperback in 2015. Liz’s second novel ‘Iteration’, a composite SF story, was on the submissions list for the Arthur C Clarke Award, 2018. Her third novel, written for a PhD in Creative Writing, is a genre-bending fusion of dystopian, historical, SF and literary fiction.
Genres Liz specialises in
Fiction:
Contemporary |
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Literary (including ‘bookclub’) |
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Crime / Thriller / Action |
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Women’s |
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Romance & erotica |
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Science Fiction |
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Fantasy |
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Comic/Satire |
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Paranormal |
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Short stories & novellas |
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Children’s |
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Young Adult |
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Non-Fiction:
Memoir/Autobiography |
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Other narrative non-fiction |
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Subject-led non-fiction |
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Liz’s published books
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Amy Sklansky
Amy Sklansky – Editor
Amy E. Sklansky has been an author and editor of children’s books for over 25 years. She has published 11 original books, including picture books (nonfiction and fiction), poetry collections, and board books.
In addition, Amy has written more than 50 books under her pen name, Amy Edgar, or as a ghost writer.
While simultaneously beginning her writing career, Amy spent five years as an editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books in New York, followed by five years as an editor for the book illustration agency, Studio Goodwin Sturges, in Boston. Since 2013, Amy has served as a Mentor in the Children’s Literature Fellows program at Stony Brook University with a focus on developing picture book writers.
Amy has visited close to 100 elementary schools and libraries in person or virtually. Sometimes she dresses in a chef costume and uses a giant cooking pot to show children how to “Cook a Book.”
In her free time, Amy enjoys knitting. She wrote a pattern for a whimsical, No.2 Pencil Scarf.
Genres Lauren specialises in
Fiction:
Picture books |
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Children’s |
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Amy’s published books
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Victoria Pullin
Victoria Pullin – Editor
Victoria has a First Class Honours Degree in Media Writing and has worked in the publishing industry for 14 years.
She spent 5 of those years in senior editorial roles at Macmillan Education and Pearson, bringing English Language Teaching courses to worldwide publication in both print and digital format. Working closely with authors and teachers during the development process, she also managed and edited the list of Macmillan graded Readers – both fiction and non-fiction – writing supplementary material to support teachers and learners of the English language. She is a qualified EL teacher and has taught in Oxford schools and colleges. She holds copy-editing and proofreading certificates from the London School of Publishing.
Genres Pauline specialises in
Fiction:
Contemporary |
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Literary (including ‘bookclub’) |
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Crime / Thriller |
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Women’s |
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Romance & erotica |
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Science Fiction |
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Fantasy |
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Paranormal |
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Short stories & novellas |
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Young Adult |
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Plays and screen scripts |
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Psychological thrillers |
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Non-Fiction:
Memoir/Autobiography |
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Subject-led non-fiction |
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Haydn Middleton
Haydn Middleton – Editor
Haydn Middleton has been an author and tutor for almost forty years.
Haydn is probably unique in having published quite so many books on such a wide range of subjects – both fiction and non-fiction, for both adults and for children – although some of them are really very short indeed! Many have been translated into foreign languages. Details can be found on his website www.haydnmiddleton.com. The Observer said of his most recent novel for adults, The Ballad Of Syd & Morgan (Propolis, 2018), ‘Haydn Middleton brilliantly imagines a meeting between Syd Barrett and E M Forster’. His next adult novel, The Actual Whole of Music, is to be published in May 2021.
His latest work of fiction for children The Girl Who Said No to the Nazis (Pushkin, 2020) tells the true story of the 1942-43 White Rose plot against Hitler & Co. A historian by training, and a lifelong devotee of fantasy/SF, he has worked as an editor at Oxford University Press, taught creative writing around the world from England to America to Greece and Australia, and he currently tutors students from Stanford University USA on the Bing Overseas Studies Program.
Genres Haydn specialises in
Fiction:
Contemporary |
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Literary (including ‘bookclub’) |
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Science Fiction |
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Fantasy |
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Comic/Satire |
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Paranormal |
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Short stories & novellas |
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Children’s |
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Young Adult |
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Non-Fiction:
Memoir/Autobiography |
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Other narrative non-fiction |
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Subject-led non-fiction |
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