Lecturing
I am a Senior Lecturer at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing where I teach on the internationally respected MA in Publishing, and the Undergraduate degree Media, Journalism and Publishing. My academic teaching specialisms include contemporary trade publishing and editorial. My academic research interests concern the practice of adapting stories from one form of narrative into another, and the historical and contemporary relationship between technology and narrative art.
Putting everything I know about the art of the novel in one place, I co-designed and co-run the The Novel Creator creative writing course with Amanda Saint at Retreat West. We have had notable publishing success from students in the short time we have been running the course.
Yes, it is possible to work with a writer to improve the quality and efficiency of their craft – no question.
Editing & Ghostwriting
For many years I wrote structural reports on fiction for writers and private clients, and then for many years more I was a structural editor of fiction for publishers, now having worked with many hundreds of writers on many tens of published novels.
I have ghostwritten fiction for an internationally best-selling crime writer, and non fiction for an international criminal. Amongst other briefs.
As a ghostwriter and editor I still do occasionally take on private clients – if you think that might be you, give me a shout.
Upcoming Events
I will be talking on The Brave New World of Publishing with Professor Angus Phillips for Oxford Technology and Media at Headington Hill Hall on June 3rd 2024
Past events
- Staying On launch, 7pm, 25 October 2018, Jam Factory, Oxford
- How to Get Published Day, Jericho Writers, London, 17 November, 2018
- Short Stories Aloud, Blackwell’s Oxford, 20 November 2018
- Workshops at York Festival of Writing, 7-9 September 2018
- The Screenwriting Retreat, 18-22 June 2018
- ‘Character is Destiny: linking plot with character and theme’, workshop at Manchester Writing School, 17 March 2018
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