Resume

Highlights

• Over sixteen years of freelance editing experience in magazines, newspapers, fiction, non-fiction, and blogs
• Award-winning novelist familiar with all aspects of independent publishing process
• Established multi-genre freelance writer
• Experience teaching writing, research, and history

Employment Summary

• Associate Editor – Historical Editorial (Current)
• Editor/Cover Designer – Corbeau Media
• Editor-in-Chief – The Antagonist
• Editor – Dirty, Sexy History
• Freelance Contributor – BBC History Magazine
• Columnist – Feedback
• Freelance Contributor – The Observer, The Libertine, Plugged In, Perfect Wedding, Buzz Magazine, and others
• Visiting Speaker – RWA

Education

• B.A. (Hons.) Ancient and Medieval History, Swansea University (2007)
• MFA Creative and Media Writing (Distinction), Swansea University (2009)

Awards and Memberships

• Winner: Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, Historical Romance. Tyburn, 2015 (RWA)
• Second Place: Write Touch Readers’ Award, Historical Romance. Broken Things, 2017 (RWA)
• RONE Nominee: Holly and Hopeful Hearts, 2017
• RONE Nominee: Broken Things, 2017
• Member of Romance Writers of America, the Royal Historical Society, and the Historical Novel Society

Skills

• Adobe InDesign and Photoshop
• Desktop Publishing and Word Processing
• Photography
• Advanced Research
• Intermediate French