Jessica Read
As Content and Communications Manager, Jessica oversees all written content at The Novelry, from course lessons to blog articles. Previously, Jessica was a freelance proofreader and desk editor for Penguin Books, Puffin, Doubleday, Arrow, Vintage, Quercus, Picador, and Pan Macmillan among others. Over 20 years she has proofread multiple bestsellers, including books by Jilly Cooper, Paula Hawkins, Lesley Kara, Dan Brown, Ben Elton, Sophie Kinsella, Curtis Sittenfeld, Andy McNab, Tess Gerritsen, Terry Hayes, Kate Atkinson, and Nora Ephron, Booker Prize winner The Gathering by Anne Enright, and more than a dozen of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. Jessica was a finalist for the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers, shortlisted for Wattpad’s Watty Awards, and is an Amby Award winner.
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As Content and Communications Manager at The Novelry, Jessica keeps our words on point.
Jessica started working in publishing in 2002 as an editorial secretary before becoming a freelance proofreader and desk editor for publishing imprints such as Penguin, Puffin, Doubleday, Arrow and Vintage among others, and publishers including Quercus and Pan Macmillan.
She has proofread many bestselling books over the years, including those of Jilly Cooper, Paula Hawkins, Lesley Kara, Dan Brown, Ben Elton, Sophie Kinsella, Curtis Sittenfeld, Andy McNab, Tess Gerritsen, Rachel Abbott, Kate Atkinson, Nora Ephron, and a whole slew of Lee Child’s ‘Jack Reacher’ novels.
Jessica has contributed to dictionaries and encyclopaedias, and has written fiction on and off since her teens. In 2007 she was a contender for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers, and in 2022 she was shortlisted by Wattpad for their Watty Awards, winning their Amby Award later that year.
Living in Oxfordshire with her family and two corgis, Jessica is currently working on a new story and is never far away from a cup of tea.
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