Experience

Todhunter Earle Interiors

• United Kingdom
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of PR and Marketing

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Initiating and implementing all PR and marketing activity for this busy, internationally renowned London based interior design studio. in 2020/1 I project managed the publication of their book, from idea to publication, including doing some of the writing, liaising with the publisher and designer, doing the UK PR and marketing and managing a US PR agency for the push over there. I also manage the Emily Todhunter Collection of furniture, lighting, rugs and wallpapers. Initiating and implementing all PR and marketing activity for this busy, internationally renowned London based interior design studio. in 2020/1 I project managed the publication of their book, from idea to publication, including doing some of the writing, liaising with the publisher and designer, doing the UK PR and marketing and managing a US PR agency for the push over there. I also manage the Emily Todhunter Collection of furniture, lighting, rugs and wallpapers.



(various)

• 700 & Above Employee

• PR Consultant, Writer and Copy Writer

  • Jan 2003 - Present

  PR, marketing and brand management consultancy work, sitting alongside my regular work with Todhunter Earle, includes/has included AlphaBio Control, The Dominic Barker Trust, the Theseus Agency Ltd, Sasaki, national PR campaigns for book publishers including Orion, Bloomsbury and Pan Macmillan with authors including Marco Pierre White, Sir Christopher Lee, Carol Caplin, Janey Lee Grace, Carol Drinkwater, John Burningham and Jennifer Donnelly. Writing and copywriting includes working for Kitchen Squared, Sasaki, The Times, The Pure Package, Platform 505, The Suffolk Food Hall and Horsebedding.co.uk.



Yellobelly

• United Kingdom
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PR Consultant

  • Sep 2017 - Jul 2019

  At Yellobelly I handled the agency's own corporate PR and PR for clients including Fawakay Villas, Marrakech and First Light Festival, Lowestoft. At Yellobelly I handled the agency's own corporate PR and PR for clients including Fawakay Villas, Marrakech and First Light Festival, Lowestoft.



Spring

• United Kingdom
• Marketing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of PR

  • Oct 2014 - Dec 2017

  From October 2014-December 2017 I was at Southwold based strategic communications design agency Spring, handling their corporate PR, advising on and executing varied client PR and brand management strategy and producing content for client communications. Varied clients included Look Sideways East (3 year collaborative cultural tourism project) and Motorhead's Snaggletooth cider. From October 2014-December 2017 I was at Southwold based strategic communications design agency Spring, handling their corporate PR, advising on and executing varied client PR and brand management strategy and producing content for client communications. Varied clients included Look Sideways East (3 year collaborative cultural tourism project) and Motorhead's Snaggletooth cider.



Pan Macmillan

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Publicity Director

  • Jan 1997 - Dec 2002

  Publicity Director for Pan Books, with overall P.R. responsibility for the Pan Macmillan fiction and non-fiction paperback list whilst also continuing to work on selected hardback campaigns from other lists. The main job of a book publicist is to form a good working relationship with an author and a close understanding of their subject area, to orchestrate appropriate print, television, radio and digital media campaigns and to organise promotional events and tours for them. I was involved in all stages of the publishing process from pitch and acquisition onwards and with the administration of the department as a whole. I also sat on the Pan Macmillan Corporate P.R. committee. High profile authors worked with included John Sergeant, Ulrika Jonsson, Colin Dexter, Janet Evanovich, Judy Blume, Anita Diamant, Peter F. Hamilton and Rebecca Wells. I left this position to work freelance after having my first child.



Hodder & Stoughton

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant to Sales & Marketing Director

  • Sep 1993 - Dec 1996

  For just over three years I held the position of Events Co-ordinator and Assistant to the Trade Sales and Marketing Director - a split role that was an excellent initiation into both the worlds of publishing and event management. The job involved all administrative back up to the Sales and Marketing Director (who at that time was Amanda Ridout), answering a multiplicity of enquiries from the trade and public as well as internally across the company, organising and running the bi-annual company sales conference, planning and running the Hodder Headline group stand at the Frankfurt and London Bookfairs, organising a wide variety of major author/book trade events - from small dinners to national road-shows – and all liaison with international film and TV companies over information on forthcoming film and TV tie-ins.