About Me

I moved back to my hometown, Sheffield, in 2020, after seventeen happy years living and working in London. I now live in a fixer-upper on top (ish) of one of the city’s seven hills, with my two cats and more books than I will ever read.

I worked as a non-fiction editor in publishing for fifteen years (all of the facts and figures on that are below) and now I’m freelance – and loving it. I work directly with writers and with publishing clients including Curtis Brown Creative, Hachette, Penguin, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.

I am also an associate of The Writers Workshop, a friendly community of writers in Sheffield, where I host an informal monthly get-together for non-fiction writers.

Desert island books: Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, Wolf Hall, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and anything by Curtis Sittenfeld.

I was recently a guest on author Hazel McBride’s podcast, NO SUCH WORD AS CAN’T, talking about my career as an editor, traditional versus independent publishing and why Jude Law in The Holiday gives editors a bad name. You can listen at the link below, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen here

Facts and Figures

2003: BA in History (UEA, Norwich)
2004: MA in Publishing Studies (City, University of London)
2005–2009: Constable & Robinson
2009–2020: Little, Brown Book Group
Eight Sunday Times bestsellers, including two number ones
Freelance from 2020. See my five-star reviews on Reedsy here and client testimonials here.

(This photograph is of exact moment I dropped a glass of champagne at the Women’s Prize in 2019. It was the one – and only – time I was invited.)