Book Editors – for novels, non-fiction and manuscripts – Jericho Writers
Jericho Writers
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Philip Womack

Philip is an author and Creative Writing lecturer. After graduating with a degree in Classics and English, he worked at Literary Review for four years, before becoming freelance in 2008 on publication of his first novel, The Other Book. Six novels for children followed, including The Liberators, The Double Axe and The Arrow of Apollo, and his first non-fiction work for adults, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, was published in October 2020. He teaches Creative Writing to BA and MA students at London University, and has been a literary critic for nearly twenty years, as well as a freelance journalist for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, writing on topics such as education and literature, and even an article on pyjamas for Tatler magazine. He is currently on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors and a Contributing Editor to Literary Review. Find Philip on Twitter here: @WomackPhilip
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Pippa Goodhart

Pippa Goodhart is the author of over 140 picture books, early readers, and MG novels. Pippa began her children’s book career as a bookseller and advisor to publishers, working with top children’s book editors. She worked for Oxford University Press on novels by Jacqueline Wilson, Tim Bowler, Helena Pielichaty and Geraldine McCaughrean. For the last quarter century, Pippa has combined writing her own books with teaching and critiquing to develop writing for children skills in others. As an author her best known books include the You Choose picture books, 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. Through Jericho Writers Pippa has worked with writers such as Pip Jones and Catherine Emmett. Find Pippa on Twitter here: @pippagoodhart
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Rebecca Horsfall

Rebecca has been an editor and teacher of fiction-writing for almost twenty years, working with upwards of 200 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. Find Rebecca on Twitter here: @HorsfallAuthor
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Rebecca Roy

Rebecca has over ten years’ experience in the publishing industry, commissioning commercial fiction for the UK’s leading publishing houses, including Little Brown, Simon & Schuster and Bonnier Books. Throughout her career, she edited and published everyone from up-and-coming debuts to international bestsellers, including Jenny Colgan, Chris Whitaker, Heidi Swain, Santa Montefiore, Roberta Kray and Paige Toon. While working as an editor, Rebecca was responsible for acquiring commercial fiction for her publishing lists, so she knows exactly what makes a manuscript stand out to an editor or an agent. She also has invaluable inside knowledge about what publishers are looking for. Most importantly, Rebecca prides herself on her editorial prowess and loves nothing more than working collaboratively with an author to make their book the best it can be. Rebecca’s editorial experience is vast, and she has edited fiction across all commercial genres, but her particular editorial specialties are romance, historical, crime and thriller. Follow her on twitter: @rebeccaroyedits
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Richard Blandford

Richard Blandford is an author of fiction and non-fiction and has been a literary consultant since 2007. Mixing dark humour with scenarios both banal and fantastic, Richard Blandford has walked the line between the comic and the horrifying since 2004. He is the author of the Elvis impersonator novel Hound Dog, the coming-of-age tale Flying Saucer Rock & Roll, Whatever You Are Is Beautiful, an eBook about an illness that turns people into superheroes, and My Life in Orbit, about an autistic comic book collector who thinks back over his strange life while preparing to meet his long-lost daughter. He is also the author of the short story collections The Shuffle and Erotic Nightmares. His art survey London in the Company of Painters was published by Laurence King in 2017 and was listed by Martin Gayford as one of the art books of the year in The Spectator, and a London book of the year in the Evening Standard. A comic strip horror story, ‘The Fixer’, appeared in David Lloyd’s online comics anthology Aces Weekly in 2019. He has also written articles for the Guardian website and the art periodicals Frieze and Elephant. Find Richard on Twitter here: @rblandford
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Richard Roper

Richard is an author and experienced editor, having worked as a senior commissioning editor for non-fiction at Headline (part of Hachette UK), where he published several Sunday Times bestsellers. His debut, Something to Live For (commercial reading group fiction), was published by Orion (UK) and Penguin (US), and has sold in twenty languages. His second novel, When We Were Young, came out in 2021, followed by his third, This Disaster Loves You, in 2024. As an editor at Headline, he worked mainly in biography and narrative non-fiction. He has published memoirs by comedians James Acaster, Miles Jupp, Katy Wix, and Joel Dommett. He has also worked with the likes of Dave Davies of The Kinks, sports stars Steven Gerrard and Andy Murray, brands like Downton Abbey, and quirky narratives such as A Tomb With a View by Peter Ross. Find Richard on Twitter here: @richardroper
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Rosie Fiore

Rosie Fiore is an author and has worked as a mentor and editor in theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market for more than 30 years. She is a tutor on our bestselling online Ultimate Novel Writing Course. Rosie has had eight novels published. She is published by Struik, Quercus and Allen & Unwin under her own name. This Year’s Black and Babies in Waiting were both longlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Award. Rosie is also published by Orion as Cass Hunter. The After Wife was translated into nine languages and optioned for a film in China. Rosie has an MA in Creative Writing and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a teacher of creative writing, effective business writing and English. She has also studied playwriting with the National Theatre. Her most recent dramatic project was a stage adaptation of Dracula. Find Rosie on Twitter here: @rosiefiore
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Rosie Walker

Rosie Walker is an author and has four published psychological thrillers from Bookouture and Harper Collins’ One More Chapter: Secrets of a Serial Killer (2020), The House Fire (2022), The Baby Monitor (2024) and My Husband’s Ex (2024). She has two more novels coming out from Bookouture in 2025 and 2026. Rosie gained a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, which taught her the ins and outs of great fiction: structure, pace, plot, characterisation and conflict. She also learned the art of providing insightful feedback on others’ writing, whether that’s big-picture plot issues or the detail of a line edit. She is currently writing her fifth novel and working as a freelance editor, specialising in psychological thrillers and women’s fiction. She loves adult fiction with mysteries and puzzles: secret passageways, abandoned houses, the novel version of Jonathan Creek, or the Famous Five for grown ups. She also loves modern romcoms with strong female characters and lots of tropes! Find Rosie on Twitter here: @ciderwithrosie
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Rufus Purdy

Rufus Purdy is an experienced editor, currently working at Titan Books. He previously worked as a literary agent, running his own agency, and ran his own editorial-services company. He worked at Curtis Brown from 2012 to 2018, where he combined the roles of Editor, New Writing at Curtis Brown Creative and Editor at its digital imprint Studio 28. Highlights included being the editor for espionage-fiction author Alex Gerlis, who sold more than 180,000 copies of the novels they worked on together, and working with Squeeze songwriter Chris Difford on his memoir Some Fantastic Place (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Many clients that he has worked with across his roles as editor and writing tutor have found publishing success, including: Paul Laird (The Birth and Impact of Britpop, Pen & Sword), Roisin Maguire (Bardo, Profile Books), Melissa Welliver (My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Chicken House), Natalie Lewis (Don’t Believe the Hype, Hodder), Loraine Peck (The Second Son, Text Publishing) and Adam Simcox (The Dying Squad, Gollancz).
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Russel McLean

Russel McLean is an author, editor, teacher, and former bookseller. His debut novel, The Good Son (Five Leaves Crime), was published in 2008, and shortlisted for “Best First Novel” by the Private Eye Writers of America on 2010. Since then he has written several more crime novels, including the darkly comic Ed’s Dead (Contraband). He has worked for publishers of various sizes as a developmental editor, and has also run masterclasses in fiction writing for festivals, universities and creative writing groups, as well as advising MLitt students on the fiction element of their dissertations for the University of Dundee’s crime writing and forensics course. For two years, he wrote a crime fiction review column in the Scottish Sunday Herald, and has interviewed authors for several newspapers and magazines. Although Russel’s primary concern has been noir and thriller fiction, he has also worked across a variety of genres as an editor including horror and SFF. You can find more about Russel and his work at his website, www.russeldmcleanbooks.com and find him on Twitter here: @RusseldMclean
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Sam Jordison

Sam Jordison is an author and co-director at Galley Beggar Press, the award-winning indie press. He has extensive editorial experience and knowledge of the book world – and has also been on the other side of the fence, having written several best-selling works of non-fiction, including the notorious Crap Towns series (Boxtree, Pan Macmillan), the best-selling I Spy for adults series, a book about Literary London (co-authored with Eloise Millar), political books like Enemies Of The People and The 10 Worst Of Everything. As a journalist, he mainly writes for The Guardian, and mainly about books. He runs the Not The Booker Prize, and the Guardian’s online book club, The Reading Group. He has also taught about publishing on several Creative Writing university courses, as well as teaching a course on publishing at Greenwich University and journalism at UEA. Find Sam on Twitter here: @samjordison
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Sarah Naughton

Sarah Naughton is a Costa shortlisted and bestselling author of YA and psychological thrillers and is published in eleven territories. Her debut novel, The Hanged Man Rises (Simon & Schuster), was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2013. Another historical YA novel followed before she was approached by Orion to write psychological thrillers. Tattletale was an Amazon bestseller, as were The Other Couple, The Mothers and The Festival. The Mothers was The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month. She also likes to dip her toe in horror, with short story ebooks The Last Gift, and Get Them Out of My Head for the No Sleep Podcast. Sarah published a YA thriller in October 2023 called You Better Watch Out and another in May 2024 called Your Time is Up. She has been working with Anthony Horowitz and Storytel on the Becoming Sherlock series, which are entirely new Sherlock Holmes stories written primarily for the audiobook format. The first in the series, The Red Circle, was released exclusively on Storytel in December 2023. Find Sarah on Twitter here: @sarahjnaughton
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Sharon Zink

Dr Sharon Zink is an author and former English Literature academic who has over eleven years’ experience of editing and creative writing teaching. Her first novel, Welcome to Sharonville (Unthank Books, 2014), was longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award and is currently being developed as a TV series. She has won numerous awards, such as being named as Young Poet of the Year and Writers Inc. Writer of the Year, as well as being shortlisted three times for The New Writer Short Story Award and for The Raymond Carver Prize. She is very proud that many of her clients have gone on to get agents and deals, including bestselling authors, Amanda Prowse and Kathryn Hughes, as well as the twice Macmillan-published, Mark Gartside, and Kate Glanville, whose books are with Accent and Penguin US. She has recently helped Helen Fisher’s novel become the lead title for Simon and Schuster in 2020. Find Sharon on Twitter here: @SharonZink
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Sibyl Ruth

Sibyl Ruth is a poet and an experienced teacher and mentor. Sibyl has published two small press collections of poetry and won the Mslexia Poetry Competition. Her poems have been widely anthologised and broadcast. She has also scripted and presented two features for Radio 4. Listen to Them Breathing was about Quaker poets while Terezin Dreams considered the poetry written by her German-Jewish great aunt Rose Scooler, while she was in a concentration camp. She lives in Birmingham and has been the city’s Poet Laureate. Over the years Sibyl has helped many writers realise their ambitions, and artists she has worked with have gone on to win literary prizes and awards. Find her on LinkedIn here.
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Stuart Walton

Stuart Walton is an established writer and editor who has had sixteen books published, and has been a senior writer and inspector on the Good Food Guide for thirty years. His published works range from a history of intoxicants, Out of It (now in its second edition), to critical studies of the emotions and the five senses, as well as a debut novel, The First Day in Paradise (2016). His most recent work is an inquiry into mayhem and disorder, An Excursion into Chaos, published by Bloomsbury in 2021. He has been translated into twelve languages. In his early career, he wrote on food and wine, co-edited the Hachette Wine Guide and has been a senior writer and inspector on the Good Food Guide for thirty years. As well as being a prolific book critic for, among others, the TLS, the London Magazine, the LA Review of Books and Review 31, Stuart is a Royal Literary Fund Tutorial Fellow at Plymouth University and has an Oxford Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing. Find Stuart on Twitter here: @stuartwalton1
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Susan Allott

Susan Allott is a critically acclaimed author whose debut novel, The Silence, was published internationally by Harper Collins in 2020 and was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association New Blood Dagger award. Her second novel, The Imposter, was published in summer 2023 with Borough Press.    Susan studied English literature and Media & Communications. She is also a Faber Academy alumna, but she credits the Jericho Writers self-edit course with her ultimate success.    Visit Susan’s website, Twitter, and LinkedIn. 
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Tanya Byrne

Tanya Byrne is an award-winning author of four contemporary YA novels (Hodder), the first of which earned her a nomination for New Writer of the Year at the National Book Awards.     Her books have been published around the world and have been translated into Spanish, German, Italian and Polish. She has also contributed to several short story anthologies, including A Change is Gonna Come, which won the YA Book Prize and was the Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week. She also contributed to Floored, a collaborative novel with Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood, which published in 2018.   Her agent is Claire Wilson at Rogers, Coleridge & White.    A regular at festivals like YALC, Hay and the Edinburgh Festival, Tanya is passionate about diversity in publishing and encouraging writers from marginalised backgrounds to tell their stories.    Find Tanya on Twitter here: @tanyabyrne  
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Teresa Heapy

Teresa has worked in children’s publishing for 27 years. She’s an editor and an award-winning author, with 11 picture books and 80 educational books published.     Teresa worked in-house as a Commissioning Editor for Heinemann and Oxford University Press before going freelance, and now combines editorial work with writing picture books and books for young readers. She has worked with authors such as Rod Hunt, Jo Nadin, Jamie Smart, Jeanne Willis, Nick Ward and Elen Caldecott.     She has also been the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Buckingham, giving writing tutorials to university students on a 1-to-1 basis.     Teresa loves visiting schools, libraries and festivals to inspire children to write their own stories. Her books have been translated into 15 languages, and her first picture book, Very Little Red Riding Hood, won the Oxfordshire Book Award and the Coventry Inspiration Book Award.   Find Teresa on Twitter here: @theapy
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Trisha Sakhlecha

Trisha Sakhlecha is the critically acclaimed author of two psychological thrillers, Your Truth or Mine? and Can You See Me Now?, published by Pan Macmillan. Trisha’s writing has been compared to that of Salman Rushdie, been praised by award-winning authors and reviewed in the Sunday Times, the Times, the Guardian, the Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, Daily Mail and more. She’s been on panels at festivals and events and spoken about her work and the importance of representation on BBC Radio 4 Open Book, BBC Radio Kent & Talk Radio. Trisha enjoys crime, thriller and upmarket women’s fiction and has particular interest in novels featuring complex female protagonists and diverse stories. Trisha grew up in New Delhi and now lives in London. Find Trisha on Twitter here: @TrishSakhlecha
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Vee Walker

Vee Walker is an author of fiction and non-fiction with a love of family history and heritage. Her novels are so closely based on archive material that they can be used as academic source texts. Vee’s debut novel, Major Tom’s War (Kashi House), evolved from a narrative non-fiction account of an unlikely WWI courtship into gripping historical fiction. Recently, her short story Nice Dog was been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Competition 2024. As part of this, she was interviewed by Kirsty Wark on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and you can listen here (starting from around twelve minutes in).   Vee honed her writing/editing skills as a heritage consultant for 20+ years, working with museums and natural/cultural/historic sites throughout the UK. Her poetry and descriptive writing can be found within unusual interpretive installations on mountains, in forests and along the coast.    She was also commissioned to write pieces of site-based drama by The Royal Geographical Society (Antarctic Science, 2001), British Waterways (the AHI Caliba Award-winning Harry’s Cut, set on the 1950s Birmingham canals network, 2002), and The National Trust for Scotland (#FindAleckie, 2019).      Vee often runs creative writing workshops.    Find Vee on Twitter here: @veewalkerwrites
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