EDITORIAL STAFF: EDITORS A TO K
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“From the outset, we determined that the Writers' Workshop would recruit only the very best editors. We've succeeded spectacularly well. Our editors have between them published 100s of books, and have won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including: • Orange Broadband • Orange New Writer • Whitbread Best Book • Hawthornden • Betty Trask • Crime Writers Ass'n Best First Novel • Sinclair Prize • Guardian Fiction • Authors' Club Best First Novel • Commonwealth Writers 1st Novel • Goss First Novel • Pendleton May Best First Novel • Guardian Children's Fiction • Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize • Dazed & Confused Most Promising Author • Esquire/Waterstones Non-fiction • PEN/JR Ackerley Autobiography • Radio 4 Writer of the Year • RNA New Writers • WHS Thumping Good Read • and many others |
Why is the Writers' Workshop the best editorial agency in the country? Simple: because our editors are the best.”
| See also: Editors L to Z | Film editors | Children's Editors |
| The Boss |
Harry
Bingham Editorial Director |
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Harry is the author of five novels, all from HarperCollins. The first, The Money Makers, shot straight onto the Sunday Times bestseller list. The second, Sweet Talking Money, was shortlisted for the WHS Thumping Good Read Award 2002. The Sons of Adam came out in 2004, and was picked by the Bookseller as one of the most exciting books of the year. Glory Boys came out in 2005, with the Bookseller
commenting, ‘If you haven’t yet discovered
the sales potential or sheer story-telling power
of this author then you are missing out. He
is the next [Jeffrey] Archer or [Sidney] Sheldon.’ The Lieutenant's Lover is out in paperback, Oct 2006. This Little Britain, published by 4th Estate in 2007, is his first non-fiction publication. It's an entertaining, argumentative romp through British history, full of surprising facts. It's available from all good bookshops. Harry lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and dogs. Read more about Harry's books.
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| The Folks Who Run The Office |
Tommy Kristoffersen, General Manager
Tommy read Art History at the University of Sussex, before going on to complete a Master's degree in the same subject at the University of Oxford, writing a dissertation concerned with successful creative practice. He has written fiction all his life, and also does the odd bit of drawing and sculpting. He takes care of the daily running of the office, but is not involved in the editorial work.
Tommy lives in a small house in Oxfordshire with his girlfriend and the neighbour's cat.
Zanna Hoskins, Administrator
Zanna read English and Classics at Nottingham University. She has lived in Cambodia, Uganda and Kenya, and on a boat in Oxford. She now lives in the countryside near Oxford with her husband and daughter and teaches Creative Writing part-time. She has been writing stories for years, and has been shortlisted for several national competitions. She has recently completed her first novel and is researching for the next.
Zanna helps run the WW office, but does not edit manuscripts.
| Our Editors |
Alma Alexander
It might have been Alma's poet grandfather who first kindled her
passion for language when she was still a toddler, but she has pursued
her passion and has been in love with words all her life. She has
written short stories, non-fiction (an autobiography based on her
childhood in Africa), and a number of novels. The Secrets of Jin
Shei, nominated for the Orange Prize and a finalist in the Washington
State Book awards in 2005, is currently published in thirteen
languages worldwide; her other novels include Embers of Heaven, The
Hidden Queen, Changer of Days, and the YA Worldweavers trilogy (Gift of the Unmage, 2007; Spellspam, 2008; Cybermage, 2009)
which includes Nikola Tesla as one of its major characters.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, with her husband, two cats, and assorted visiting wildlife.
Kate Allan
Kate knew from early on that she wanted to be a novelist. Her first book was Fateful Deception, a historical romance shortlisted for the RNA New Writers Award (2005). She has since published both Perfidy & Perfection, a romantic comedy based in Jane Austen's England (and based on the adventures of a Jane Austen-like character), and The Restless Heart.
She also co-writes historical fiction with Michelle Styles, writing as Jennifer Lyndsay. Their first book is The Lady Soldier.
Kate also somehow manages to find the time to handle PR for Myrmidon Publishers. She lives in Hertfordshire.
Debi Alper
Debi has written four novels. Her first, Nirvana Bites, was described by The Big Issue as: “A quick-paced and witty trawl through London’s sub-cultures.” Her second novel, like Nirvana Bites, “is set in the downtrodden areas of South London she knows well, areas of desolate high rise housing and vibrant street markets.” She has worked as a finance officer, a photographer, farm labourer, life model and wig maker over the years but it was after her children were born that she wrote her first novel, “in the evenings in long hand lying on the settee and then typed it up in chunks using borrowed laptops.”
Debi’s novels are about the grim lives of desperate people told with love and humour. She lives in London.
David Armstrong
He is also the author of How Not to Write a Novel - a more realistic guide to the life and career of a novelist than those books which focus on a handful of bestselling authors.
Sophia Bartleet
Sophia has been the Tutor in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University School of Publishing for the last five years, teaching courses in children's fiction and crime fiction, with workshops on plotting, character development, Writing as Sophia Creswell, she has published two novels with Sceptre. Her first, Sam Golod, 1996, was set in the anarchic underbelly of modern Russia. The Observer wrote "Sophia Creswell has caught well both Russia's atmosphere of seedy violence and the mild hysteria of its artistic coteries." Her second book, Red Tape, 1998, charts a love affair doomed to failure by the pressures of the asylum and immigration system. In 1997 she won the Southern Arts Literary Award. Read more about Sophia's books
Cat Bauer   Cat started out as an actress and playwright, and had several plays produced in the local Los Angeles theatre scene before turning to fiction. Her first novel, Harley, Like a Person, was called "Compelling," by the Horn Book Magazine, and has received the following awards and recognitions: • Booklist Top Ten Youth First Novel • American Library Association YALSA Best Book for Young Adults • Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers • Popular Paperback for Young Adults (Two-time winner 2001 & 2008) • New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age • BookSense 76 Pick • Bookreporter Top Ten Teen First Novel • Book of the Year - First Place YA Fiction - ForeWord Magazine • Oregon Young Adult Network Book Rave • teenreads.com Top 10 • CosmoGirl Book Club Selection • Teen People Book Club Selection • Winner - SCBWI Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award After her first publisher filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, she began the tedious legal process of reclaiming her rights. During this period, she was a regular contributor for the International Herald Tribune's Italian supplement, Italy Daily, writing about the art, culture and history of Venice, Italy, where she has lived since 1998. In 2007, Knopf republished Harley, Like a Person, together with a companion novel entitled, Harley's Ninth. She is currently working actively on new projects. For more information please visit her website or her blog.
Tim Binding
Tim is also the author of a number of novels, In the Kingdom of Air (1993), A Perfect Execution (1996) (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize) and Island Madness (1998), set on Guernsey during the Second World War.
He co-wrote a comedy drama series for BBC television in 1998, entitled The Last Salute. On Ilkley Moor: The Story of an English Town (2001), is a memoir and history of the area where he grew up. Anthem, a moving and entertaining story of the horror of war and its consequences, was published in 2003. His latest novel, Man Overboard (2005), tells the story of English war hero, Commander Crann. Richard Blandford   Richard is the author of Hound Dog (Jonathan Cape), described as “’Phoenix Nights’ meets America Psycho. In Cambridge’ by Kevin Sampson, author of Powder. Hound Dog is a novel of redemption and rock’n’roll, masturbation and morality. The Observer has described it as “Slick, efficient and faintly nasty, this novel croons indie Brit-flick.” The TV rights to Hound Dog have been sold to GRD Productions.
Richard's second novel will be Flying Saucer Rock and Roll, (Cape, 2008). Richard is thirty one years old and lives in Brighton.
Keith Brooke
Keith also finds time to write horror stories for teenagers under the name Nick Gifford, and has been selected by the Waterstones Book Quarterly as one of the faces of the future.
Karen Connelly Her other books include Grace and Poison, One Room in a Castle, This Brighter Prison, The Disorder of Love, and The Small Words in My Body.
Emma Darwin
Emma's first novel The Mathematics of Love was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book and Goss First Novel awards and longlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year. It was written as part of an MPhil at the University of Glamorgan and is published by Headline Review. Susan Davis
Susan was seven when she wrote her first novel, which was lovingly illustrated and bound with scarlet knitting wool. Since then, she’s upped her game. Her debut novel, The Henry Game (Random House 2002, and an Ottakars Book of the Month) tells the story of three girls who accidentally summon up the spirit of Henry VIII. The sequel, Delilah and the Dark Stuff, came out in 2003. Mad, Bad and Dangerous came out in 2005. Susan's short fiction has been short-listed for the Asham Award and won many other prizes. She has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Susan is an Arvon tutor and literary mentor. Helena Drysdale
Looking for George was shortlisted for both the Esquire/Waterstones/Apple Non-fiction award (1995) and the PEN/JRAckerley Award for Autobiography in the same year. Helena has also written and presented a documentary, Dancing with the Dead, for Granada TV. She makes regular appearances as a broadcaster and lecturer. She is a course tutor for the Arvon Foundation, and a Royal Literary Fellow teaching writing skills at Exeter University. Helena is married to painter Richard Pomeroy and they live in Somerset with their two daughters.
Clare Dudman
Clare has a PhD in chemistry and a diploma in religious philosophy. She has been a research scientist in academia and industry, a teacher, and a lecturer in colleges and universities in both chemistry and creative writing. She has written four novels: one for children, Edge of Danger (Penguin, 1995) which won the Kathleen Fidler award, and three for adults: Wegener’s Jigsaw (Sceptre, 2003)/One Day the Ice Will Reveal All its Dead (Viking US, 2004, Deilmann, 2008); 98 Reasons for Being (Sceptre, 2004, Viking US, 2005, AmboAnthos 2006); and A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees (Seren, 2009/2010). An excerpt from Wegener’s Jigsaw won an Arts Council of England Writers’ award, and was one of Penguin's notable books of 2004 in the US. She has also had short stories and poetry published in several anthologies by various publishers including Serpent’s Tail and Bantam. One of her short stories won the Sheriff of Cheshire’s Prize for Literature in 2003. To research for her books she has received Arts council and Authors' Foundation grants and has travelled alone along the coast of north-west Greenland and across the Patagonian desert. She has also trained to become a shaman in London.
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Elizabeth Garner, Chief editor, Film & TV
As a script editor, Liz has worked extensively in the industry. She has been on the scriptreading board of Miramax and advised them on potential novel adaptations. She was also formerly head of development at Gorgeous, an independent film company. She now works as a script editor for a number of UK-based companies. Liz is also a successful novelist, and understands the creative process well. Her first novel Nightdancing (from Hodder Headline) was short-listed for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and also for the Pendleton May First Novel Award. Her second novel, Edgar Jones, is forthcoming from the same publishers. Claire Gillman
Claire's first book, 'PARA: Inside The Parachute Regiment', was published by Bloomsbury in May 1993. Since then she has published a further seven adult health and parenting books, the most recent being Cope with Infertility for Hodder in association with This Morning TV. She has also written seven children’s books, some under the pen-name of Rory Storm. Her latest book entitled ‘The Curious Girl’s Book of Adventure,’ was published by Elwin Street in March 2008. Claire is married with two adolescent sons and lives on the edge of the West Pennines with her family.
Julia Hamilton
Julia grew up in Scotland, and now divides her time between London and Oxfordshire, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.
Geraldine is also an Egyptologist at Oxford University. She has published a number of academic works on the subject, as well as a number of educational books for children.
Wendy Holden
Her ghosted autobiographies, ten to date, chronicle the lives of extraordinary people, from Goldie Hawn to the only woman in the French Foreign Legion during WWII. Other works have included the novelisations The Full Monty and Waking Ned, plus Shell Shock, an investigation into the trauma of conflict. Her first novel, The Sense of Paper, is to be published in America next year. She lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband and four dogs. Anne Horler
Anne gained her teaching qualifications at London and Cambridge Universities. While teaching she lectured to other teachers on in-service training and was on an advisory panel for the development of the Foundation Stage Curriculum. Anne has lived in Surrey and Cambridge. She worked for two years in Singapore where she met Donald Moore, a local author and publisher, and became a part-time proof-reader. Anne is married, with six grown-up children and fourteen grandchildren. In 1983 she established her own pre-preparatory school near Cambridge. On retirement she re-kindled her copy-editing skills and has been a copy-editor for Writers’ Workshop since 2006.
Rebecca Horsfall
She worked, on and off, for more than a decade for a West End producer as a script supervisor and assistant producer before writing what The Bookseller described as “736 unputdownable pages of pure delight”. She has done office work, theatre directing, teaching, theatrical management — as well as working in a microbiology lab. She has been happily married for fifteen years.
Jane Jakeman
Jane is the author of numerous articles and reviews in British journals and newspapers, such as The New Statesman, Independent and The Sunday Times. She regularly reviews crime fiction for the Independent.
Jeannie Johnson
Jeannie has also written erotic fiction and understands the iron rules of this market very well. She is also an actress, a member of Equity, and has appeared in numerous TV shows, including Casualty, Holby City, Border Cafe, and others. She writes critiques on behalf of the Romantic Novelists' Association. She has written for the BBC, and has taught creative writing in workshop settings. She now lives and works from her home in Tintern. Sam Jordison
Sheena Joughin
Sheena has also written The Hamlyn History of Twentieth Century Fiction, and reviews for The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent and The New Statesman. She has taught poetry and fiction workshops in London for the past five years, and is a lecturer on the Creative Writing course at Bath Spa University. She lives in London with her son, and a very small cat.
Daren has written since he was old enough to pick up a pen without putting it in his mouth. His first children's novel, Mouse Noses on Toast, won first prize in the 6-8 age category of the Nestle Children's Book Prize, and his debut adult novel, Boxy an Star, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. His books have been published around the world, including Canada and the US, and have been translated into Italian, German and Russian. photo credited to Rankin
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research, drafting, sense of place, and avoiding clichés.
summary, a minor masterpiece that should usher Brooke at last into the recognised front rank of SF writers.' Keith has also published two volumes of short stories, much other short fiction, and has edited three SF anthologies. He also created and now runs the 
short stories, but now concentrates on longer fiction and has published two novels. Fay Weldon said of Things to do Indoors (2003) “She writes like an angel and thinks like the devil”, and Julie Burchill wrote “I love this book”. Her successful debut was followed by Swimming Underwater in 2005, which was widely reviewed and admired. (“Both philosophical and a pleasure”, said The Guardian). 
