ABOUT ME

MA in English, University of Cambridge

Copy editor, Cambridge University Press

Senior editor, Hodder and Stoughton Educational

Marketing manager, World International (Egmont)

Consultant/managing editor, Ladybird Books

Freelance author, editor and packager for, among others: 

Arcturus, Armadillo, Buster Books, Carlton Kids, Dorling Kindersley, Kingfisher, Ladybird, Lonely Planet Kids,

Octopus, Random House, Scholastic, Watts, Wayland.

The best bits: working with extraordinary designers, illustrators and editors to create something that none of us could have achieved on our own; Apple Macs; getting letters from children; debating whether a father penguin can be shown wearing a pinny; discovering, during a proofreading job, a creature called a wrinkle-faced bat (definitely my spirit animal); being the boss of me.