Becky Hunter - Editor
Becky has over ten years’ experience in the publishing industry. She started her career grading and passing the more promising submissions through to a literary agent. Since then, she’s worked in both and editorial and PR capacity. On the PR side, she worked at two major publishers – Transworld (part of Penguin Random House) and Headline (part of Hachette). She worked with a variety of fiction and non-fiction authors, across a variety of genres. She helped launch the career of debut authors such as Shari Lapena and Karen Hamilton, as well as working with brand women’s fiction and crime/thriller authors. She attended in-house focus and acquisitions meetings, so has a strong idea of what publishers are looking for on the industry side of things.
Over the last two years, she’s been working on a freelance basis, in both an editorial and PR capacity. On the PR side of things, she works independently with authors, as well as for agencies such as Midas PR, working mainly with fiction authors. Editorially, she works with aspiring and self-published authors, as well as on a project-by-project basis with traditional publishers, such as Bloomsbury. She prides herself on giving thorough, in-depth reports, and loves to see the improvements an author makes with editorial feedback.
She is also an author in her own right – her debut novel ONE MOMENT sold in multiple global territories and was published in the UK in 2023 and the US in 2024, where it was pre-empted as part of a two-book deal for six figures. Her second novel MEET ME WHEN MY HEART STOPS was published in 2024 and her third novel OVER AND OVER will be released in 2026. Under the penname Emily Stone, she has five festive romance novels published and is also one half of Ellis Hunter whose debut book BLOOD BOUND sold to HarperVoyager in a six-figure deal and will be released in April 2026. Becky is represented by Sarah Hornsley at PFD.
Find Becky on X here: @Bookish_Becky
If you’d like to work with Becky, get in touch with our Writers Support team; tell us about your book and what you’d like support with, and we’ll help you identify your next steps.
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Why we love Becky
With experience in editorial, PR, agenting and being on the author side of the process, Becky fires on all cylinders and really provides authors with a multi-disciplined approach to their work. Having worked with a variety of genres in a whole manner of roles, she has gained an insight into what each stage of the process can provide and how this ultimately may shape your writing. As a much loved editor, Becky is unbelievably committed to providing authors with supportive and shrewd advice, that leaves authors coming back to her time and time again. So much so, she has been requested to provide mentoring and a video course called ‘Write a Novel in Six Weeks’, available to all Jericho members. She prides herself on giving thorough, in-depth reports, and loves to see the improvements an author makes with editorial feedback.
What Becky says about editing
Books and writing are my passion – I love reading books, writing them, and helping authors to develop their novels into something they can be truly proud of. Helping aspiring authors to develop their MS is one of my favourite things to do – I love helping an author to get to that ‘aha’ moment where they understand a key concept, such as show don’t tell, or where a plot or character issue that they’ve been struggling with finally slots into place. I am thorough, thoughtful and approachable when I come to my editorial work – I want to be someone who is on the author’s side and helps them through the sometimes isolating journey of writing, whether that’s as a one-off MS assessment, or else a longer term relationship of mentoring. I read widely, and have worked on a variety of genres during my time in publishing, and particularly love working with crime/thrillers, women’s fiction, literary/literary crossover (or ‘book club’ books) and YA – but this list is not exhaustive, and sometimes the best books that come to us are the ones we weren’t expecting.
What Becky works on
Manuscript Assessment
Developmental Editing
Agent Submission Pack assessment
Post-editorial guidance
Opening Section Review
Genres Becky specialises in
Becky's published books
One Moment
One moment in time can change everything…
The day Scarlett dies should have been one of the most important of her life. It doesn’t feel fair that she’ll never have the chance to fulfil her dreams – all because she stopped to help a stranger. And now, she’s still … here – wherever here is – watching the ripple effect of her death on those she loved the most.
Evie cannot contemplate her life without Scarlett, and she certainly cannot forgive Nate, the man she blames for her best friend’s death. But Nate keeps popping up when she least expects him to, catapulting Evie’s life in directions she’d never let herself imagine possible.
If you could go back, knowing everything that happens after, everything that happens because of one choice you made, would you change the course of history or would you do it all again?
Meet Me When My Heart Stops
What if your soulmate could only ever be the love of your afterlife?
Emery’s heart could stop at any moment…
If the people around her act quickly enough, it can be restarted, but in the meantime she is briefly technically dead.
Each time Emery’s heart stops, she meets Nick, who helps people accept their death and move on. Usually he only meets people once, but with Emery he makes a connection.
Although Emery lives life to the full, a part of her is always waiting for her heart to stop – so that she can see Nick again.
But Emery and Nick can never share more than a few fleeting moments – because if they were to be together, it would mean the end of Emery’s life…
One Last Gift
For as long as Cassie can remember, it had been the three of them: Cassie, her big brother Tom, and Tom’s cocky, gorgeous best friend Sam.
Now, Tom is sorted, Sam is flying high, and Cassie thinks she’s figured it all out. Then life takes an unexpected turn.
For Cassie starting again seems unimaginable. Until she finds an envelope with her name on it, with a letter asking her to follow a trail to one last gift.
And, suddenly, what seemed like an ending promises to lead Cassie to a love that is surprising and new… if she is brave enough to follow her heart…
Home Again for Christmas
Lexie is always on the move, but there is one constant in her life – her ‘wish jar’; the childhood tradition from home that she couldn’t leave behind.
When Lexie’s estranged dad dies, she is shocked to learn that she has inherited half of his travel company in Bath. Her dad’s will stipulates that she must work with Theo, her handsome but bad tempered business partner, for a year.
Once the year is over, Lexie intends to leave. But a work trip to sizzling Spain reveals a chemistry between Lexie and Theo that is impossible to deny.
Will Lexie find a reason to stay in one place? Will she discover the secret her father kept from her, and finally learn the meaning of home?
Always, in December
It started with a letter. It ended with a love story.
Josie Morgan never looks forward to December. It’s always a reminder of the life she lost, twenty years ago. Now, she always switches off the radio when Christmas music comes on. She always wants to tear down the tinsel her flatmate insists on pinning up. And she always posts a letter she knows will never be read.
Max Carter never expected to find himself stranded in London just days before Christmas. He never expected it would be so hard to say goodbye to a woman he hardly knows. Then again, he never expected to fall in love.
But, this December, when Josie’s letter leads her to Max, a chance encounter will change their lives in the most remarkable way. And their story is only just beginning . . .
The Christmas Letter
Every December, Holly writes to a stranger who is spending Christmas alone. And every year she receives a letter from another lonely person. Being a part of the Dear Stranger club is a tradition she has come to treasure. Because ever since the accident three years ago, Holly has spent Christmas alone.
Usually, the letters go unanswered. But when Holly reads this year’s Christmas letter, from an older woman called Emma, she feels compelled to find her, as Emma mentions a place Holly knows all too well.
Holly offers to help Emma reconnect with her estranged grandson. But when Holly tracks down handsome, dark-eyed Jack, she realises she’s met him once before, and the connection was electric. Suddenly helping a stranger is about to get a lot more complicated…
Yours for the Season
It’s the last place Mel imagined spending the holidays.
But when her ex-boyfriend Finn shows up on her doorstep, only months after inexplicably dumping her at his sister’s engagement party, asking her to pretend to his family they’re back together, she agrees – on one condition. Mel can publicly dump Finn at the end of the week and show him just how it feels.
But with Finn’s mother set on making this Christmas picture-perfect, can Mel and Finn keep up the act without falling back into old feelings? As their white lie snowballs out of control, and the ice between them starts to thaw, Mel must decide if she really wants their romance to be just for the season – or something more…
Blood Bound
The deadly competition begins in 2026’s hottest fantasy romance debut
You cannot forfeit
Once in a generation witches and dragon riders must fight for control over the source of all magic
You cannot run
The heirs of their kingdoms, Princess Astrid and Prince Zryan, will clash in a deadly competition where the only rule is survival
You duel or you die
But when the future of their people, their lands and their lives are at stake, both will do anything to win…