The Best Book Editors

Before joining The Novelry, Lizzy Goudsmit Kay was a Senior Commissioning Editor at Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House, home to general fiction authors including Kate Atkinson, Dan Brown, Bill Bryson, Lee Child, Richard Dawkins, Paula Hawkins, Rachel Joyce and Sophie Kinsella.

Before joining The Novelry, Josie Humber was a Senior Commissioning Editor at Hodder & Stoughton, a division of Hachette, home to authors including Jodi Picoult, Stephen King, David Nicholls and Erin Kelly.

Before joining The Novelry, Emily Kitchin was an Editorial Director at HQ, a division of HarperCollins and home to authors including Adele Parks, Linwood Barclay, Sarah Morgan, Carrie Hope Fletcher and Erica James.

Before joining The Novelry, Tash Barsby was a Commissioning Editor at Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House. Tash has worked as an editor on many bestselling titles including the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse.

Before joining The Novelry, Craig Leyenaar was a Commissioning Editor at the famous Titan Books, a publisher specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime and thrillers, and home to authors including Stephen King, V.E. Schwab, James Lovegrove and Mickey Spillane.

Before joining The Novelry, Elizabeth Kulhanek was an Associate Editor at Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, home to bestselling and acclaimed authors like David Baldacci, Octavia E. Butler, MinJin Lee, Scott Turow, Harlan Coben, Sandra Brown, and Nicholas Sparks.

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Before joining The Novelry, Krystle Appiah was an Editor at Macmillan Children’s Books, home to authors including Marcus Rashford, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Tomi Adeyemi and Julia Donaldson.

Before joining The Novelry, Gillian Holmes worked as an acquiring editor and a copy editor at Penguin Random House for the Arrow Books imprint, where she acquired authors such as Katie Flynn, who was the bestselling saga writer in the country.

Before joining The Novelry, Francine Toon was a Commissioning Editor at Hachette, publishing distinctive prize-winning literary fiction. Francine has worked with internationally renowned authors such as John le Carré, Stephen King and Fredrik Backman.

Before joining The Novelry, Sorcha Rose edited and acquired manuscripts at Hodder & Stoughton, a division of Hachette, home to authors including John Grisham, Stephen King, Sophie Hannah, Erin Kelly, Will Dean, B.A. Paris, Vaseem Khan and Lucy Score.

Before joining The Novelry, Nic was Senior Commissioning Editor at Headline, part of Hachette, with a particular focus on their boutique romance imprint Headline Eternal, the publishing home of bestselling authors such as Sarah Adams, Erin Sterling and Mariana Zapata.

Before joining The Novelry, Georgia Summers was an Editor at Tor, an imprint of Macmillan, home to authors including Cassandra Clare, Olivie Blake, Adrian Tchaikovsky, T.J. Klune, Arkady Martine and Travis Baldree.

Before joining The Novelry, Simran Kaur Sandhu was an Editor at Macmillan Children’s Books where she worked on groundbreaking and award-winning children’s and YA titles, including Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone.

Before joining The Novelry, Sadé edited and acquired manuscripts at two imprints of HarperCollins simultaneously: 4th Estate, home to authors including Hilary Mantel, Anthony Doerr, Jonathan Franzen, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yiyun Li and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as the William Collins imprint, home to authors including Brian Cox, David Attenborough, Christina Lamb, Elizabeth Hinton, Max Hastings, Mark Carney and Kathryn Mannix.

Before joining The Novelry, Natasha Qureshi was the Commissioning Editor at Hodderscape, Hodder & Stoughton’s SFF imprint, home of international SFF bestsellers by Frank Herbert, L.R. Lam, Chloe Gong, Roshani Chokshi and Pierce Brown.

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