It’s time to write your book…
… and I can help.
I’ve been an editor for over twenty years. I’m also a published, award-winning writer who’s worked for a literary agent and sold books at weekends, giving me a bird’s eye view of the business. My job is to seamlessly, invisibly, help you create the kind of book you want to write.
We’re swamped with conflicting or very generalised writing advice, which is why I prefer to work one to one with writers to deepen, connect up, and polish books and proposals. Nonfiction is my jam – I’ve written and edited both mainstream and academic texts, and have clients in both camps and the crossover in between. I’m especially keen on history, culture history, travel, personal essays, hybrid memoirs,and other hybrid nonfiction.
My Services
Book Coaching
Want to write a book but are worried that your idea isn’t big enough?
Don’t know where to start?
Having difficulty sticking to a writing schedule and want accountability and feedback?
Are you just stuck?
Editing and Copyediting
Have a draft of a book or proposal and need solid feedback?
Finished your book and need a copyeditor?
Ghostwriting
Do you have a story and need help telling it?
Who am I?
I’m Susanna Forrest, author of the global history The Age of the Horse and the memoir/cultural history, If Wishes Were Horses. I’ve published chapters on my original research in academic collections and won the Sophie Coe Memorial Prize for an Essay on Food History and the John Heygate Award for travel writing from the Society of Authors. I’ve been a writer in residence and published work in The Atlantic, the Guardian, the Paris Review Daily, and many other prestigious publications. I also taught a highly popular creative nonfiction course at The Reader, Berlin for seven years.