Jennifer Barclay – Editor

I love travel memoir and fiction that teaches you about a place or a period of history. Projects over the last few years include Doug Gold's The Note Through the Wire, Tharik Hussain's Minarets in the Mountains, Ishbel Holmes' Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy and Auguste Corteau's The Book of Katerina. I've experienced the creative and publishing process from many different angles. I'm British and studied English at Oxford but moved to Canada in my early twenties and that was where I started working with books. I joined a literary agency in Toronto, learning the ropes by doing general admin and selling rights until I was an agent myself in the North American market. Seven years later, needing a break, I left to travel in Asia and when I returned, I wanted more creativity in my work. I co-edited a collection of travel writing that was published by Vintage, then spent two years in France becoming a freelance editor with international clients, while starting to write my first book. Eventually I moved back to England and took on the role of editorial and rights director for a British independent publisher. Having published my first book and started on my second, ten years ago I decided to move to a Greek island and soon went freelance again. I now have the great pleasure of working from home with authors and helping to shape stories - advising on book ideas, coaching, editing from start to finish, helping with publicity, and sometimes finding publishers for authors. It's always fun to receive a new pitch. I love reading a new story.