Book Editors – for novels, non-fiction and manuscripts – Jericho Writers
Jericho Writers
167-169 Great Portland street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF
UK: +44 (0)330 043 0150
US: +1 (646) 974 9060

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Elizabeth Garner

Elizabeth is an award-winning author with 20+ years of editorial experience, in both fiction and feature film. She is a development editor for the award-winning crowdfunding publishers Unbound. She also teaches Creative Writing at Oxford University and is the arts Trustee at the inter-disciplinary creative and academic charity, The Blackden Trust. Elizabeth’s debut novel Nightdancing (Headline) won a Society of Authors’ Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for the Pendleton May First novel award. Her second novel, The Ingenious Edgar Jones, was published in both the UK and USA to critical acclaim. She is currently developing a collection of rewritten Folk Tales – Lost & Found – in collaboration with the Young Wood Engraver Of The Year, Phoebe Connolly. A student of Elizabeth’s Advanced Creative Online class at Oxford, Georgia Fancett, went on to win the Daily Mail First Novel award 2018. In her role at Unbound, Elizabeth worked with Rose Cartwright on the development and editing of her award-winning memoir PURE, which was adapted into a Channel 4 TV drama. Find Elizabeth on X here: @Lostandfoundst2
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Em Norry

Em Norry is a fiction and non-fiction MG/YA author, with her books being published by Scholastic, Puffin, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, and Hodder Education. She writes under both Em Norry and E. L. Norry. Her books include Son of the Circus (2019, Scholastic), The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela (2020, Puffin), Amber Undercover (2021, OUP), Football Legends #5: Lionel Messi (2021, Scholastic), Mary Prince (2022, Scholastic), Fable House (2023, Bloomsbury), Fable House: Heart of Fire (2024, Bloomsbury). She has had short stories published in the following collections: Home Again: Stories about Coming Home from War (2020, Scholastic), Happy Here (2021, Knights Of), The Place for Me: Stories from the Windrush (2021, Scholastic), A Very Merry Murder Club (2021, Farshore), The Super Sunny Murder Club (2024, Farshore). Em has previously written for a younger age group of reluctant and dyslexic readers: A Good Friend (Hodder Education). Find Em on X here: @elnorry_writer More information can be found at https://elnorry.com/
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Emily Randle

Emily runs her own Editing and Rights Consulting business, working alongside indie authors, indie publishers and consulting for big name international literary agencies. During her time at the agency, she worked with best-selling authors such as Stephen Fry, Paula Hawkins, Owen Jones, Carole Matthews, Sarah Vaughan and Rosie Walsh, alongside national treasure children’s authors such as Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson. She was runner up for the David Miller Bursary in the Deborah Rogers Rights Award 2017. At the start of 2020, Emily launched her own freelance book editing and rights selling business under the name Randle Editorial & Literary Consultancy. She also regularly consults for big literary agencies such as Janklow & Nesbit and Johnson & Alcock, in both Rights and Primary Agenting departments.
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Emma Cooper

Emma Cooper is the author of highly acclaimed book club fiction novels. She has had four books published so far by Headline Review (an imprint of Hachette UK): The Songs of Us (2018), The First Time I Saw You (2019), If I Could Say Goodbye (2020), and It Was Always You (2022). 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. Find Emma on X here: @ItsEmmacooper You can find more information about Emma here: https://emmacooperauthor.wordpress.com/
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Fay Sampson

Fay Sampson is the author of over 50 books, including novels for children and adults and non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize three times, with Pangur Ban, Chris and the Dragon, and A Free Man on Sunday, and has won the Barco de Vapor award and the CRT Fiction Book of the Year. She has been editing manuscripts for nearly 20 years, and has taught creative writing and been a Writer in Residence. You can find more information about Fay here: https://faysampson.co.uk/
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Gary Gibson

Gary Gibson is one of the UK’s leading authors of hard science fiction, space opera and post-apocalyptic fiction. Since his first short fiction sale in 1990, Gary Gibson has published sixteen science fiction novels with Pan MacMillan, Newcon Press and through his own imprint Brain in a Jar Books, including Stealing Light (2007), Extinction Game (2012) and Echogenesis (2021). As an editor for Jericho Writers, he’s worked with several hundred unpublished as well as published authors. His speciality is sci-fi and fantasy, but he’s also worked with writers of horror, crime and post-apocalyptic fiction. You can find Gary’s website here (www.garygibson.net) and follow him on X at @garygibsonsf
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Gideon Roberton

Gideon is an experienced editor, story analyst and a published author. He writes the Drake’s War series of WW2 Espionage Thrillers under the pen name Gideon Saint. Drake’s War has been selected for The Bernard Cornwell Reading Club and has been an Amazon best-seller. Before he took up novel-writing, Gideon previously worked for Twentieth Century Fox, Focus Features, and Universal Pictures International as a story analyst. Gideon also ran a department of a trade publishing business in London for a number of years. Gideon has a BA (hons) in Contemporary Media Practice (Westminster University), an MA in Creative Writing (Lancaster University), an MFA in Creative Writing (Kingston University), and he studied Screenwriting at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). Having been on all sides of the table, as an author, editor, publisher, screenwriter and story analyst, Gideon is uniquely placed to help you on your journey to becoming a published author or screenwriter.
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Hal Duncan

Hal Duncan is a queer Scottish writer and editor. He is mainly known for his literary fantasy and science fiction novels, but he also writes short stories, poetry and criticism.   A blend of pulp and postmodernism, his first novel, Vellum (Tor), was described by Lucius Shepard as ‘the Guernica of genre fiction’, and shared awards shortlists with everyone from Neil Gaiman (BFS Award) to Brett Easton Ellis and Haruki Murakami (World Fantasy Award). It won the Spectrum Award (for LGBT science-fiction/fantasy), the Kurd-Lasswitz-Preis and Tuehtivaeltaja (for the German and Finnish translations respectively) and was nominated for the Crawford, the Locus and (for the French translation) the Prix Europeen Utopiales.    Hal was also a judge on the 2012 British Fantasy Awards and co-edited the Caledonia Dreamin’ anthology in 2013. As professional freelance editor, he worked on Sean Eads’ Lord Byron’s Prophecy, finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award 2016, while as mentor he worked on an early draft of Cameron Johnston’s The Traitor God, subsequently picked up by Angry Robot and shortlisted for the Dragon Awards 2018.    You can find more information here: https://www.halduncan.com/  
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Haydn Middleton

Haydn Middleton has been an author and tutor for almost forty years.    He has written extensively for both adults and children. His nine novels for adults, marketed variously as literary fiction and fantasy, include The Ballad of Syd & Morgan which was dramatized in 2023 on BBC Radio 4 and his most recent novel for children is The Girl Who Said No To The Nazis (Pushkin Children’s, 2020).     Since 2015 he has taught Creative Writing for Stanford University’s Oxford Program, and more recently for the Sarah Lawrence Programme at Wadham College, Oxford. Before becoming a freelance author of children’s fiction and non-fiction – producing scores of books on subjects ranging from Emmeline Pankhurst to jellyfish – he worked as a history schoolbook editor at Oxford University Press.     You can find more information here: www.haydnmiddleton.com.
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Helen Francis

Helen Francis has worked in publishing for 23 years, in both publishing houses and literary agencies. Previously, Helen worked as a fiction project editor at Faber and Faber for nine years, and as 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.     Helen has also worked at literary agencies Abner Stein Associates and MBB Creative, as well as an international book scout for many years. Helen has taught creative writing and editing at Bath Spa University, Roehampton University, and the University of East London.    Authors she’s edited and published include Victor Lodato (twice shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short story Award), Sophie Hardach (shortlisted for the 2019 Costa Novel Award), Laurie Canciani and Michelle Paver (Sunday Times bestselling author of WAKENHRST). At Faber, she worked with authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Edna O’Brien, Andy O’Hagan and Sarah Hall.   You can find Helen on X here: @Helen_E_Francis
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Helen Lane

Helen Lane is a literary agent, working in a very hands-on capacity with her clients to perfect their manuscripts before submission and encourage her authors to push their writing to new levels.    Before becoming an agent, she spent years producing developmental edit reports for the agents she interned under. Her strengths lie particularly in identifying plot holes and pacing, world building, and character development.     Helen presently carries out agent 121s with authors and has taken part in various panel events in her role as an agent. Helen also offers writing advice as both an agent and an author on Twitter, trying to make the writing process more transparent for authors.     You can find Helen at @HFLane_writing
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Holly Race

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
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Holly Seddon

Holly Seddon is an international bestselling author.    Her published books include Try Not to Breathe (Ballantine Books), Don’t Close Your Eyes (Ballantine Books), Love Will Tear Us Apart (Corvus), The Hit List (Trapeze), The Woman on the Bridge (Orion), and The Short Straw (Orion).    Holly has worked as a journalist and editor, and co-hosts the Honest Authors Podcast alongside Gillian McAllister.    Find her on Twitter here: @hollyseddon
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Janet Laurence

Janet Laurence is the author of crime novels, food and cookery books, and contemporary women’s fiction (as Julia Lisle).    She was included in a Times list of 100 masters of crime writing and has been a Writer in Residence at the University of Tasmania. She runs creative writing courses, particularly on writing crime novels, and is a past Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and current chair of the judging panel for the CWA International Dagger.     Janet loves encouraging novelists and aims to stretch each writer’s abilities and encourage their ambitions.
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Jenny Knight

Jenny Knight is a prize-winning author of short story and memoir, and a contributor to the celebrated Common People anthology, edited by Kit de Waal (Unbound, May 2019).    An experienced editor, copy-writer, copy-editor and proofreader, she’s enjoyed 25 years’ successful freelancing for publishers including Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Routledge, and her writing on writing and the publishing world has appeared in Book Machine, National Writers’ Centre and Restless.    Jenny has won or been shortlisted in competitions including Bridport, Fish, Arvon, ACE/Escalator, Yeovil, Riptide and SWWJ. She has a degree in English Literature and Drama, and studied Creative Writing at UEA.     Find Jenny on Twitter here: @knightjennyk
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Jo Hall

Jo Hall is an editor with a breadth of experience across the industry. Her particular strength is helping writers hone their skills and edit their work in order to achieve successful outcomes and realise their aims.    Jo has worked with ‘Daredevil Books’ who have re-published classics including Hillary’s ‘The Last Enemy’ and Birkin’s ‘Full Throttle’, proofreading scans and re-organising layout and punctuation. She edited ‘With a Little Help from My Lens’ by Tommy Hadley, a Beatles photographer, keeping the original voice but teasing out the sense of what was trying to be expressed.    She works as a mentor, and runs sessions locally called ‘How to get more from Your Reading’.    Prior to her work as an editor, Jo was a teacher of both English Language and Literature at A Level, and Theatre Studies.
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Jon Curzon

Jon Curzon is a literary agent at Artellus Ltd., where he represents writers across fiction and non-fiction; from debut literary fiction (Kyra Wilder’s Little Bandaged Days and Ashleigh Bell Pedersen’s The Crocodile Bride) to titles in history and science (Christopher Othen’s The King of Nazi Paris and Lukasz Bednarski’s Lithium), and memoir (Emily Wells’s A Matter of Appearance).    Books Jon has represented have been published in the UK, US, Germany, France, India, the Netherlands, South Korea, Greece – and have been reviewed and featured in the Guardian, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Times, The TLS, and on Channel 4 News.    In addition to his agenting work, Jon has also worked as a freelance editor for literary consultancies and creative writing courses since 2015.  
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Julie Hoyle

Julie Hoyle is an editor with a broad range of copy-editing and proofreading experience. Julie edits fiction in a variety 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. Julie 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 and has a great eye for detail. Prior to becoming an editor, Julie worked for 34 years as a teacher, where she enhanced her editing skills while assisting students.
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Juliet Mahony

Juliet Mahony has over ten years experience in the industry, working as a rights manager, literary scout and agent. Her publishing upbringing was at Lutyens and Rubinstein where she started as an assistant, worked her way up to rights manager and finally took on clients of her own. During her time there, she worked with best-selling and award-winning writers like Mark Billingham, Claire Fuller and Hannah Richell. She still freelances for her former colleagues and helps prepare manuscripts for publication. Her clients have been published by leading houses, on lists such as Sphere, Scribner and Quercus. She’s worked for Jenny Darling & Associates in Melbourne with some of the biggest names in the Australian literary world and, most recently, as a literary scout. This breadth of experience has given her a unique and thorough understanding of the international literary appetite and what it takes for a book to stand out from the crowd.
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Kate Rizzo

Kate Rizzo works as a Rights Director at a London literary agency, and has worked at agencies her entire publishing career. Her role in selling an author’s work abroad gives her a keen eye for what a manuscript needs to find a publishing home and captivate readers. She has sold translation rights for writers like Laura Barnett, Lucy Clarke, Kate Davies, Joseph Knox, Maria Realf, Holly Seddon, Clare Swatman, and Sarah Waters, and has worked for a number of bestselling writers in genres as broad as crime/thriller, women’s fiction, literary, memoir, narrative non-fiction and the sciences. Find Kate on Twitter here: @KateRizzz
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