About me

I HAVE 20 years of experience in Christian publishing and a first class honours degree. I am now a freelance editor, writer and publishing consultant.

I worked for CWR in Surrey as an editor and writer for four years and for CPO in Sussex as editorial manager and then publishing manager for eight years. I then moved to New Life Publishing in Nottingham, where I was editorial manager for five years, and editor of a Christian newspaper called New Life, deputy editor of the official monthly magazines of two national church denominations, and produced marketing and publicity literature. I am also a published author and have edited books and websites.

My current work includes editing Good News – a national monthly outreach newspaper (www.goodnews-paper.org.uk), and editing books for church leaders.

Current and past clients include:

Bible Society; Kingsway Publishing; Kevin Mayhew; Good News newspaper; Selby Times; Lifebite.co.uk; Go Teach; New Life Publishing; Rob Brown; Urban Saints; Kent Kreations

Some of my publishing achievements…

• While editor of a national Christian newspaper, in five years I took the annual circulation from 150,000 to 600,000, while keeping to budget. Currently I am editor of another Christian national monthly newspaper: the circulation rose from 47,000 to 63,000 in the first year under my editorship
• When I was editor of a bi-monthly children’s publication, the circulation increased from 11,000 to 20,000 in four years, whilst I redesigned and updated the format and simultaneously achieved a significant reduction in production costs
• As managing editor of a monthly comic, I increased circulation from 500 to 9,000 in two years
• I wrote invitations that sold between three and five million copies each year, for eight years
• Of publications I have personally authored, the highest individual sellers are: an invitation folder – 386,100; a 4-page A4 brochure - 252,000; a 16-page A5 booklet - 52,000; a 28-page A4 booklet – 30,000
• Highest selling publication I originated, edited and part-authored: a 44-page colour booklet – 500,000 copies in 12 language editions (for which I also managed production)
• Managed publishing programmes of both charities and companies to deadlines
• Won 2008 Press Association Caption Competition

Personal details

I am married to Mandy, have two daughters and live in Nottingham, where we attend a Baptist church.