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This page features some of my clients’ traditionally published books. Hover over a book to flip the image and read how I helped the writers get and agent or get published.
They’ve achieved the dream of becoming an author, with a little help from me. Can I help you?
Sharon approached me to get her manuscript and pitch ready for submission to publishers.
Sharon approached me to get her manuscript and pitch ready for submission to publishers.
Frank asked me to review his first three chapters. I ended up introducing him to his publisher.
Referred to me by a literary agent, Anita and I developed her manuscript to a commercially publishable standard.
I was honoured to help eminent historian Dr Pybus develop her pitch and find the right publisher for this important book.
Under the expert care of Allen & Unwin in bringing the book to market, TRUGANINI has sold many thousands of copies and has been reprinted several times.
I love editing Lily Brett's fiction, which I have been doing since her novel TOO MANY MEN. We met when I worked in-house at Picador, an imprint of Macmillan.
LOLA BENSKY won the Prix Médicis Étranger, a prestigious French prize for translated works of fiction.
Guy approached me with the idea for this book. He'd written hardly any of the manuscript but had relevant expertise, and more importantly had identified a gap in the market.
We developed a proposal and detailed chapter outline, which landed him a publishing contract from HarperCollins. DOGS went on to become a bestselling history title in Australia.
When my friend Fiona Higgins approached me with the manuscript of her first novel, I was beyond excited to help develop and then sell at auction an outstanding story that became a bestselling commercial women's fiction title in Australia in its year of publication.
Fiona has gone on to write several more works of intelligent commercial fiction about contemporary Australia.
I was hired by Simon & Schuster to do a structural / developmental edit on the manuscript of the bestselling author's second novel.
The German edition of the award-winning LOLA BENSKY, which I edited.
Lily is a superstar in Germany, where she was born in a DP camp after WWII; and very popular in Australia, where she emigrated as a child.
