Meet The Editor and Contributors
The Editor
Barry Turner has worked on both sides of publishing, as a journalist and author, editor and marketing director.
He started his career as a teacher before joining The Observer and then moving on to radio and television. His first book, a study of British politics in the early twentieth century, was published in 1970. He has written over twenty books, including A Place in the Country, which inspired a television series, as well as a bestselling biography of actor Richard Burton. For many years he wrote on travel for The Times and now reviews and serialises books for the paper. Among his recent books are Countdown to Victory on the last months of World War II and Suez 1956: The First Oil War.
As founding editor of The Writer’s Handbook he has taken this annual reference title through to its twenty-first edition. For ten years, Barry has edited the annual Statesman’s Yearbook.
He is a founder and current chairman of the National Academy of Writing at the University of Central England. He has been editor of The Writer's Handbook for over twenty years.
The Contributors
Kim Fletcher is a former editor of the Independent on Sunday and editorial director of the Telegraph, Kim Fletcher writes on the media for the Guardian and is author of The Journalist's Handbook (Macmillan)
Chris Hamilton-Emery’s poetry has appeared in The Age, Jacket, Magma, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, PN Review, Quid and The Rialto. A first full-length poetry collection, Dr Mephisto, was published by Arc in 2002 and a new collection of poetry, Radio Nostalgia, was published by Arc in 2006. He is Publishing Director of Salt Publishing and was awarded an American Book award in 2006.
Clare Hodder is currently Head of Rights at Palgrave Macmillan. She is chair of the PA Academic and Professional Division Copyright Committee and also sits on the ALPSP Copyright Committee.
Nicola Monaghan is the National Academy of Writing Fellow at Birmingham City University. Described as the rising star of British mainstream fiction, she is the author of The Killing Jar, published in 2006 and winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award and a Betty Trask Award. Her latest novel, Starfishing, was published in March 2008.
Ali Muirden is Audio Publisher at Macmillan Digital Audio and former Chair of the Audio Publishing Association.
Jon Reed is a social media consultant who specializes in social media. He previously worked in publishing for 10 years, including as publishing director for McGraw-Hill. His blog can be found at www.publishingtalk.eu/blog/.