PUBLISHER | COMMERCIAL WRITER | COMMISSIONER | REVIEWER | BRAND BUILDER
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With first-class client and talent management skills, I specialise in content creation, writing and publishing across platforms and genres including autobiography, biography, memoir, lifestyle, fashion, personal development, true crime, music, sport, cooking and history.
Publisher - Penguin Random House Australia
(2007-01 - 2026-01)
Penguin Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher, is dedicated to its mission of nourishing a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere. As a publisher, I was responsible for researching, conceiving, commissioning, contracting and licensing works across a range of subjects and mediums. I worked hand-in-glove with the Sales, Marketing, Publicity and Design teams to ensure each book was the very best it could be.
Associate Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers Australia
(1998-01 - 2007-01)
HarperCollins is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world, part of News Corporation. It occupies a unique place in Australian and New Zealand publishing. In both nations it is the country's oldest publisher – with a heritage dating back to the bush ballads and school books of the late nineteenth century. To build a strong, commercial and profitable non-fiction list from scratch and to work closely with News Corp colleagues to optimise acquired books across the sister companies.
Literary Agent - The Other Woman & Co
(1997-01 - 1998-01)
A literary and film agency, based in Sydney, which provided a full-service agency role for authors of both fiction and non-fiction, journalists and filmmakers. I founded the agency with Jane Burridge, another publishing professional and talent manager, and we placed our authors with all the major publishing houses from Pan Macmillan to Penguin, negotiating publishing, film and TV contracts worldwide.
Senior publicist - Chrysalis Records (London) - London
(1995-01 - 1996-01)
One of Britain's leading independent music labels. Publicity contact point for media and artists and management, supporting team members to accomplish goals, working together to deliver innovative and memorable publicity campaigns and artist tours.
Book reviewer - The JMAG (Triple J/ABC)
Book reviewer - Harper's BAZAAR magazine
Music reviewer - The JMAG (Triple J/ABC)
Freelance writer - Herald Sun/News Corp
Trinity College, Oxford
Moira House School, East Sussex
