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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Kathie Weaver

Kathie Weaver is a screenplay, fiction, and nonfiction editor with more than 20 years of experience working with first-time writers to Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winners. At DreamWorks Pictures and The Mount/Kramer Company, she developed scripts for highly-acclaimed writers and directors, including Horton Foote, Sydney Lumet, Roman Polanski, William Friedkin, Philip Noyce, and others. She has vast experience mentoring both beginning and seasoned screenwriters and authors through all stages of the writing process, from concept to final draft. Kathie studied English literature at Northwestern University and screenwriting at Columbia University.
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Katy Massey

Katy Massey is an author and former journalist. Her memoir, Are We Home Yet? (Jacaranda Books) was published in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and the Portico Prize. In addition, her fiction and non-fiction has been widely anthologised, including Common People edited by Kit de Waal from Unbound, The Place for Me, published by Scholastic, and upcoming speculative collection Glimpse, from Peepal Tree Press. She has recently delivered her first novel, an unusual take on the crime genre, to her agent. Katy has an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. Find Katy on twitter here: @TangledRoots1 
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Kesia Lupo

Kesia Lupo started her publishing career in 2013 as Editorial Services Assistant at Pan Macmillan London, working on copy-edits and proofreads largely for the SFF-focussed Tor list. In 2015 she was hired as Junior Editor at YA and MG fiction publisher Chicken House – over the following eight years she was promoted through Editor to Senior Editor, working with Costa Award-winning Jasbinder Bilan and Sunday Times-bestselling Pádraig Kenny among many other talented children’s writers. In 2023, she transitioned to the US and literary agenting, working at the Bindery Agency for a year which she represented adult and children’s fiction. Her clients included Marvellous Michael Anson (author of epic fantasy trilogy Firstborn of the Sun, launching with PRH in 2025) and Caroline Madden (author of darkly funny women’s fiction debut The Marriage Vendetta, publishing with Bonnier UK and HarperCollins US in 2025). Lastly, Kesia is a writer herself with three YA novels out with Bloomsbury UK – fantasies We Are Blood and Thunder and We Are Bound by Stars, and horror/thriller Let’s Play Murder.
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Lesley McDowell

Lesley McDowell is the author of fiction, non-fiction, and short stories, and was formerly a literary critic for major newspaper. Lesley has three published novels, The Picnic (Black & White Publishing), Unfashioned Creatures (Saraband) and Clairmont (Wildfire 2024), as well as a work of non-fiction, Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers (Overlook Duckworth 2010). She is the recipient of three Creative Scotland awards, a Society of Authors grant, and was Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library in 2014. She has also been a judge for several literary awards, and chairs regularly at book festivals. Prior to working as an editorial consultant, Lesley worked for many years as a literary critic, reviewing regularly for The Independent on Sunday, The Sunday Herald, the Scotsman, The Times Literary Supplement, and others. You can find her on Twitter @LesleyMcDowell1, or on Instagram at lesleywrites.
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Liz Monument

Liz Monument is an author, writing all kinds of fiction including sci-fi, historical, and horror. Liz’s debut novel, The Eternity Fund was short-listed for Mslexia Magazine’s unpublished novel competition in 2013, becoming a talking book in 2014 (Audible.co.uk), and a paperback in 2015 (Fahrenheit Press). Liz’s second novel Iteration (Fahrenheit Press) was on the submissions list for the Arthur C Clarke Award, 2018. Her third novel, Transcendence, was written for a PhD in Creative Writing. 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. Before becoming a full-time novelist and editor, Liz specialised in adult education and taught in the creative arts field for 22 years. As of 2021, Liz is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Louise Tondeur

Louise Tondeur is a writer of fiction, poetry, plays, and non-fiction. Her published works include two novels, The Water’s Edge and The Haven Home for Delinquent Girls (Headline Review), a short story collection called Unusual Places (Cultured Llama, 2018), and non-fiction writing guides. Louise has an MA in Creative Writing, a PhD, and has worked as a Drama teacher and Creative Writing lecturer. She has supported countless writers with both written and verbal feedback, and brings her knowledge of theatre and creative writing into conversations with emerging writers. You can find more information about Louise here: www.louisetondeur.co.uk Find Louise on Twitter here: @LouiseTondeur
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Louise Walters

Louise is an author, editor, mentor, and former indie publisher. She is the author of Mrs Sinclair’s Suitcase, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2014, and has self-published four further novels: A Life Between Us (2017), The Road to California (2018), The Hermit (2022), and We Are Family (2024). Louise Walters Books ran from 2017 to 2023, and published mainly literary novels and novellas. Louise was also the original publisher of fantasy author Laura Laakso’s Wilde Investigations novels, now published by Bloodhound Books. Louise continues to work as Laura’s editor on the series. Louise has a degree in Literature from the Open University, is an alumni of the Jericho Writers Self Edit Your Novel course (2013), and was a volunteer with the Womentoring Project. Find Louise on Twitter here: @LouiseWalters12
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Margaret Kirk

Margaret Kirk is the award-winning author of novels and short stories. She writes Highland Noir – Scottish fiction with a gothic twist, set in and around her home city of Inverness. Her debut novel, Shadow Man (Orion), the first in the DI Lukas Mahler series, won the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition in 2016. The second, What Lies Buried, was published in 2019, and the third, In The Blood, in 2021. Margaret is also the writer of several award-winning short stories. Still Life was broadcast on Radio 4 as part of their ‘Scottish Shorts’ series, and The Seal Singers (Das Lied der Seehunde) has been published in translation in Germany and Switzerland. Find Margaret on Twitter here: @HighlandWriter 
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Mark Leggatt

Mark is a manuscript assessor, editor and author who’s twice topped Blackwell’s bestseller list. He’s the author of three books – Names of the Dead, The London Cage, and The Silk Road – and an Associate Editor for Fledgling Press. As an author, he is represented by literary agent Jon Wood at RCW. Mark has produced detailed editorial reports, manuscript assessments and submission reviews for clients in the UK, EU and North America. He also provides expert advice on submission packs, and how to grab the reader from the first page of your novel. He began his writing career taking advice and receiving manuscript assessments by professionals on his own debut novel, so he knows what it takes to become published and secure an agent.
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Martin Ouvry

Martin is a writer, editor, teacher and musician. He has more than twenty years’ experience as a writer, reviewer, manuscript assessor, structural editor, writing teacher, mentor, line-editor, copy-editor and proofreader. His fiction has appeared in a range of world-renowned publications including Esquire, The London Magazine and New Writing (Picador). His article ‘How creative writing courses benefit a writer’ has been reprinted twice in the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (2023, 2024, 2025). He recently completed his novel The Cost of Loving with the generous support of Arts Council England. Martin has received numerous prizes for his work, including first- and final-year prizes for outstanding achievement (University of East Anglia BA), the Alumni Association prize for fiction (UEA MA), a Hawthornden Fellowship, two Arts Council writer’s awards, and a Wingate Scholarship in literature. He has taught widely, for the British Council, the Arts Council, at City University of London, UEA, Imperial College London and elsewhere. You can find more information about Martin here.
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Mary Hargreaves

Mary Hargreaves is an author and editor with a decade of experience. After writing her first novel, This Is Not A Love Story (Trapeze, 2020 ), she decided to take her editing career further and joined the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders, where she undertook a fiction editing course. Her second novel, Enough Already, came out in 2021. Mary writes women’s fiction, and has a particular interest in funny tales about imperfect women. She knows how hard the writing process is, and loves nothing more than helping talented authors make their work the best it can be.
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Mary Torjussen

Mary Torjussen is the author of psychological suspense. Her first novel, Gone Without a Trace (2016) was simultaneously bought by Headline in the UK and Penguin in the US. Ecosse bought the TV option and it was also translated into nine languages. Her follow up novels are The Girl I Used to Be (2018) and The Closer You Get (2020). She loves to write about women who find themselves in a perilous situation where the danger is close to home. She lives near Liverpool and likes to use local settings for her novels. Mary has an MA in Creative Writing, has worked as a teacher, gives talks in bookshops, libraries and to students on creative writing courses, and has been on panels at CrimeFest in Bristol, ThrillerFest in New York, Bouchercon in Toronto and Iceland Noir in Reykjavík.
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Megan Collins

Megan Collins is the author of the psychological thrillers The Winter Sister (2019), Behind the Red Door (2020), and The Family Plot (2021), all published by Atria/Simon & Schuster. Megan is the managing editor of 3Elements Review, a prompt-based literary magazine, where one of her duties is to provide extensive feedback (on the developmental and line-edit levels) to submitters who pay for such services. She has an MFA in Creative Writing, and taught creative writing for twelve years. Throughout her teaching career, she guided many of her students through the process of writing and revising work that then went on to win prestigious regional, state, and national writing competitions. Many of her former students have since had their work published. Find Megan on Twitter here: @ImMeganCollins
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Mia Colleran

Mia is a freelance editor specialising in fiction and memoir with experience at HarperCollins Publishers and a New York literary agency. She was an editor at 4th Estate for three years in London where she honed her editorial abilities over countless manuscripts (both non-fiction and fiction). Books Mia has worked on include A Cook’s Book by Nigel Slater, Easy Wins by Anna Jones, Good Girls by Hadley Freeman, and The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson. Mia is passionate about helping authors find their voice. She particularly likes to work with debut authors on this and helps them to work out the big questions that inform their writing. She helps authors to find their voice by proposing writing exercises, suggesting literary influences and probing at the seams a story. Mia also has experience pitching books for acquisition in house and therefore can recommend comparable titles to help place a work in progress, something that is especially valuable for authors seeking the traditional publishing route. She has lots of hands-on experience working with authors from debuts to Sunday Times bestsellers, and she has interviewed many at book festivals. She has also worked as a freelance book reviewer for The Paris Review, Guardian, Irish Times, and others, and therefore is experienced at accurately distilling a book down to the bare bones and identifying what makes good writing truly stand out. Before working as an editor she was an award-winning bookseller for several years and she was also the recipient of the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award.
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Naomi Jones

Naomi Jones is an author and has over eight years’ experience working in children’s publishing. She began her career at Puffin (Penguin Random House) before moving to Orion and then Hachette Children’s Group. Her previous experience as a Rights Manager brings invaluable insight into maximising a book’s sales potential and she has worked closely with both UK and international editors to develop a good knowledge of global publishing markets and trends. Her picture books are published by OUP and HarperCollins. They have won and been shortlisted for multiple awards and are now translated into 19 languages. Naomi has a BA (Hons) in English Studies and was the children’s book reviewer for award winning family travel blog Mini Travellers for over three years and a long-listing judge and mentor for the Jericho Prize. Naomi has been working as a freelance editor and mentor helping other children’s writers to develop their manuscripts and craft for over six years. Find Naomi on Twitter here: @NaomiJones_1
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Natasha Bell

Natasha Bell is an author, PhD researcher and creative writing teacher. Her debut psychological thriller, His Perfect Wife, was published by Penguin in 2018 and her second novel, This Nowhere Place, came out in 2021. She’s also published short stories, memoir and creative non-fiction. Natasha holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths and is currently working on a practice-led PhD in autofiction. She teaches introductory and novel-writing courses at City Lit, mentors for The Riff Raff, and previously worked as a sub-editor at The Press Association. She loves narrative in all forms, but has a particular passion for psychological suspense, women’s fiction and stories that blur the line between truth and fiction. Find Natasha on Twitter here: @byTashB
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Neema Shah

Neema Shah is an award-winning author and marketer. Her debut novel Kololo Hill was published in 2021 by Picador and has featured in The Independent, The Irish Times, Marie Claire and Daily Mail among others. Neema’s work won the Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Live and was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award, First Novel Prize and York Festival of Writing Best Opening Chapter competitions. Kololo Hill was also longlisted for the Retreat West Novel Prize, Exeter Novel Prize, SI Leeds Literary Prize and York Festival of Writing Pitch Perfect awards. Her flash fiction won the Curtis Brown #WriteCBC competition and came second prize in the Casket of Fictional Delights, judged by Kit de Waal. Neema developed her writing through the University of East Anglia Writing Fiction course and Jericho Writers Self Edit Your Novel course among others. She mentors writers including those from under-represented backgrounds and is passionate about building a more diverse publishing industry. Neema has a Law LLB degree and is a Chartered Institute of Marketing qualified marketer. Find Nemma on Twitter here: @NeemaMShah Author image © Alexander James
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Nicola Mostyn

Nicola Mostyn has over twenty years experience in the industry, working as an arts journalist, columnist, editor, writing coach and the author of two novels and one non-fiction title. Nicola’s debut The Gods of Love was shortlisted for The Writers’ Guild Best First Novel award, became an I-news top ten debut, a NetGalley top read and an Amazon bestseller. The sequel, The Love Delusion, followed in 2019. Nicola’s non-fiction title, Seven Creative Gremlins, was written in conjunction with a Life Coach and is aimed at helping writers combat common psychological blocks. Nicola has a Master’s Degree in English Literature and a certificate in Teaching Creative Writing Workshops. From 2017 to 2020, Nicola held creative writing workshops in Manchester to help writers make progress on their work in a supportive and relaxed environment. She also runs the website TheUnstoppableAuthor.com, offering support, inspiration and tough love to aspiring and established writers. Find Nicola on Twitter here: @NicolaMostyn
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Paul Roberts

Paul Roberts is a writer and business consultant. His first book was published by The Economist in 2007 and is now in its third edition. He has had several further books published by Kogan Page, forming part of their hugely influential ‘Business Success’ series. Paul’s latest non-fiction book has been published by Routledge in their ‘Absolute Essentials’ series, causing Paul to realise, if ever proof was needed, that it is far harder to write a short book than a long one. Paul writes frequently for magazines and professional publications as diverse as the Independent, Evening Standard, Maxim and Viz comic. Paul has also written for television and has a novel nearing completion. As a reviewer, editor and teacher of creative writing, he has supported developing writers for many years.
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Pauline Kiernan

Dr Pauline Kiernan is an award-winning playwright, commissioned screenwriter and prize-winning short story writer. She has been a literary consultant for 12 years and has taught Creative Writing on Oxford University’s Creative Writing Undergraduate and MA programmes. Pauline is a former lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Shakespeare scholar, and was appointed Leverhulme Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe to work with Mark Rylance and the directors and actors in its first six years as dramaturg and research resource. She is the author of the snappily-entitled Screenwriting They Can’t Resist: How to Create Screenplays of Originality and Cinematic Power – Break The Rules and is a theatre and film consultant. Her monographs, Shakespeare’s Theory of Drama, and Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe were published to worldwide acclaim, and her best-selling Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Most Outrageous Sexual Puns was an Observer Book of the Year. She is currently writing the first of a series of crime novels set in Italy, and a book about Keats.
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