Holly Race - Editor
Holly Race is an author and a script editor for television and film.
Her YA urban fantasy trilogy was published by Hot Key Books between 2020 and 2022. She currently writes YA and adult fantasy and urban fantasy.
Before becoming an author, Holly worked for nearly a decade as a script reader for a wide range of production companies, including Working Title, the BFI and Pathé. She has a Diploma in Script Development from the prestigious NFTS and cut her teeth working in the film department of Aardman Animations. Since then, she has worked as a development editor for Red Planet Pictures and as a development executive at Andy Serkis’ Imaginarium Studios. Holly also runs a successful ‘Screenwriting for Novelists’ course and teaches creative writing at festivals and as a guest lecturer at Cambridge University’s ICE.
You can find Holly on Twitter here: @Ecarylloh
Testimonials
- Jane S.
WHY WE LOVE HOLLY
Holly is a powerhouse of writing talent. When she’s not working on her YA fantasy, she’s working across the medium of script and screenwriting – both as a writer and an editor. In fact, she’s hosted two webinars for us on the topic: Writing Screenplays 101 and From Moodboard to Chapter: Using Films to Inspire your Novel. Holly is always thrilled to help you take your manuscript to the finishing line – whether that involves structural changes, or adding some sparkle.
WHAT HOLLY SAYS ABOUT EDITING
For a writer, there’s little better than those moments when you figure out the perfect way to express your story. For an editor, there’s a genuine thrill in helping a writer to reach those moments. It’s the magic of being a creative sounding board.
I understand how frightening it can be to show your writing to a stranger. But as the graduate of a novel writing course, I also know that feedback from a safe, honest and experienced pair of eyes is invaluable.
My priority will always lie in making the most of the story you want to tell. I certainly don’t believe that there is only one correct way of writing. I won’t tell you exactly what to do, only make suggestions and explain the reasoning behind them. It’s crucial that you always feel ownership over your work.
I love reaiIng YA, fantasy (and YA fantasy!) as well as scripts of any genre. I also have a soft spot for speculative fiction. I offer editorial and submission pack assessments as well as mentoring and line-editing.
What Holly works on
Manuscript Assessment
Agent Submission Pack assessment
Post-editorial guidance
Genres Holly specialises in
Holly's published books
Midnight’s Twins
Fern King is about to uncover a place that she could not have imagined in all her wildest dreams. Annwn is the dream mirror of our world, a place where Dreamers walk in their slumber, their dreams playing out all around them. An enchanted, mysterious place that feeds our own world – as without dreams, without a place where our imaginations and minds can be nourished, what kind of humans would we be?
But Annwn is a place as full of dangers as it is wonders: it is a place where dreams can kill you. Annwn and its Dreamers are protected by an ancient order known as the Knights – and when Fern’s hated twin Ollie is chosen to join their ranks, Fern will have to do whatever she can to prove she is one of them too.
