Bestselling hybrid author, speaker, and mentor.

Eliza (E.) Knight is a tutor on the Ultimate Novel Writing Course for international students.

Eliza is an award-winning, USA Today and internationally bestselling hybrid (traditionally and self-published) author of over eighty titles. Her latest novel, Starring Adele Astaire, was released this year with William Morrow (HarperCollins).

In 2013 she was named Romance Writers of America’s PRO Mentor of the Year, and in 2017 she was accepted into RWA’s Honor Roll for selling over 100,000 copies of her self-published title The Highlander’s Reward.

In addition to her own indie publishing, Eliza is contracted with Lake Union Publishing, Sourcebooks and William Morrow (HarperCollins), and has audio contracts with Tantor and Blackstone Audio. Her books have been translated into several languages.

Best-selling author, essayist, and comedy writer.

Emily-Jane Clark is a tutor for The Ultimate Novel Writing Course for UK and Europe students.

She is author of bestseller Sleep is for the Weak. This part-memoir, part-humorous survival guide for tired parents is five-star rated on Amazon and made the top one hundred of all books. Her first funny middle grade children’s novel The Beasts of Knobbly Bottom: Attack of the Vampire Sheep is out as of July 2023, as part of a two-book deal with Scholastic.

Emily-Jane is also a successful comedy writer at the UK’s biggest satirical newspaper The Daily Mash and has worked on Mock the Week, The Jonathan Ross Show and Mash Report.

Former editor at Faber & Faber, book doctor & scout.

Helen Francis is a tutor for The Ultimate Novel Writing Course for UK and Europe students.

She has worked in publishing for nearly 20 years, in both publishing houses and literary agencies. Helen previously worked as a fiction project editor at Faber and Faber for eight years, and a commissioning fiction editor at Head of Zeus for two.

She also ran the Classics list at Vintage, Penguin Random House, and was a freelance commissioning editor for Arcadia Books. Helen has also worked at literary agencies Abner Stein Associates and MBB Creative, and has worked with an international book scout for many years.

Lindsey Alexander started her 20-year editing career at HarperCollins US.

She is a tutor for The Ultimate Novel Writing Course for international students.

She’s helped authors across a range of genres launch their careers and has worked with numerous publishers and literary agencies to develop and hone some of the best-loved books of the last two decades. Among the books Lindsey has edited are numerous New York Times and USA Today best-sellers, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and a winner of an Agatha Award. A number of books she’s edited have been optioned for film and published in translation.

Cross-genre author, editor, and tutor.

Natasha is a tutor for The Ultimate Novel Writing Course for UK and Europe students.

Natasha is an author, researcher, and creative writing tutor. Her novels His Perfect Wife and This Nowhere Place are available from Penguin. She’s also published a memoir with HarperCollins and short stories in a variety of journals and anthologies. She holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths and is finishing off a practice-led PhD in autofiction.

Children’s author with a love of myths in literature.

Philip is a tutor for The Ultimate Novel Writing Course for UK and Europe students.

Philip Womack is the author of nine critically acclaimed fantasy books for children. His latest, Ghostlord, was released in May 2023. His first work of non-fiction for adults, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, was published in 2020, being a lively guide to the world and literature of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Write Your Own Myths, a Creative Writing guide for children, appeared in 2021.

Cross-genre writer, editor, and mentor

Rosie is a tutor for The Ultimate Novel Writing Course for UK and Europe students.

Rosie has worked as a novelist and as writer, mentor and editor in theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market for 30 years. As an editor for Jericho Writers, she has offered advice, support and mentoring to more than fifty novelists.

Rosie has had eight novels published. She is published by Struik, Quercus and Allen & Unwin under her own name. Last year’s Black and Babies in Waiting were both longlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Award.

Rosie is also published by Orion as Cass Hunter.

Full-time novelist, writing coach, and editor.

Liz Monument is a tutor on the Ultimate Novel Writing Course for international students.

Liz is a writer, editor and writing coach interested in fiction of all kinds, from sci-fi to historical. Her first two novels are science fiction; her third is a literary genre-fusion, written for a PhD in Creative Writing; her fourth work-in-progress is a triple timeline gothic thriller. Liz works with a variety of clients including Jericho Writers and HarperCollins. She actively collaborates with selected international literary agencies to accelerate the submission process for writers of talent.

Writer, publisher, journalist and industry insider.

Sam Jordison is a tutor for The Ultimate Novel Writing Course for UK and Europe students.

He is the co-director of award-winning Galley Beggar Press, publishers of Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport and Alex Pheby’s Mordew. He has written more than a dozen non-fiction titles including the bestselling Crap Towns series and Enemies of the People, a commentary on the folks who brought us Brexit and Trump.

As a journalist, he mainly writes for the Guardian, mainly about books. He writes fiction and non-fiction reviews and for several years ran the Not The Booker Prize, and the Guardian’s online book club, The Reading Group.