Experience

Quercus Books

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications Director

  • Nov 2013 - Present

  Heading up a team of seven. Responsible for sales driven PR strategy and author care. Working on campaigns across non-fiction and fiction titles: crime, literary, general fiction, sport, celebrity, health. Heading up a team of seven. Responsible for sales driven PR strategy and author care. Working on campaigns across non-fiction and fiction titles: crime, literary, general fiction, sport, celebrity, health.



Ebury Publishing, Random House

• Senior Publicity Manager

  • Dec 2006 - Nov 2013

  Worked across all the Ebury Publishing imprints - Ebury Press, BBC Books, Vermilion, Rider, Virgin Books and Time Out Guides. Areas of specialty include: celebrity autobiography, fiction, TV-tie ins, craft, real-life memoir, humour and cookery. Book campaigns I have worked on include: Gok Wan - Gok's Wok JLS - Forever and a Day Mark Cavendish - At Speed Dynamo - Nothing is Impossible Perri Lewis - Material World Lisa Comfort - Sew Over It Jane Casey - The Last Girl Scarlett Bailey - The Night Before Christmas, Married by Christmas, Just for Christmas, Santa Maybe Fatima Whitbread - Survivor Julian Clary - Briefs Encountered, Devil in Disguise, Murder Most Fab Tatty Devine - How to Make Jewellery Stuart Maconie - The People's SongsHope and Glory, Adventures on the High Teas, Pies and Prejudice Strictly Come Dancing Annual 2007 - 20010 Emma Kennedy - I Left My Tent in San Francisco Louise Wener - Different for Girls Katie Piper - Beautiful Aleksandr Orlov - A Simples Life Gok Wan's Autobiography - Through Thick and Thin Piers Morgan - Don't You Know Who I Am? Len Goodman's Autobiography - Better Late Than Never Ainsley Harriot - Just Five Ingredients Show less



Michael O'Mara Books

• Publicity and Marketing Officer

  • Jun 2003 - Dec 2006

  Create and implement creative publicity and marketing campaigns for a range of non-fiction books in areas including celebrity, humour, history and gift. Create and implement creative publicity and marketing campaigns for a range of non-fiction books in areas including celebrity, humour, history and gift.



Akeley Wood School

• United Kingdom
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PA to Headmaster and School Secretary

  • Jan 2000 - Aug 2002