Helen spent several years in editorial at Penguin before setting up Cornerstones Literary Consultancy in 1998.
In 2016, she opened Cornerstones US, creating the world’s first transatlantic literary consultancy.
Cornerstones is known for teaching self-editing techniques, providing editorial feedback on all genres, scouting for agents, and launching many writers in all genres published by global industry giants including: HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Bloomsbury, Bonnier Books, Chicken House Books, Picador(Pan Macmillan), Faber & Faber, Macmillan USA, Amazon Publishing, and more.
She is the co-author of On Editing: How to Edit Your Novel the Professional Way (John Murray, April 2018). Helen teaches developmental editing at UCL and was appointed Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies, UCL. Helen is the course director of the Cornerstones/PWA online course, Edit Your Novel the Professional Way, which is MA-level CPD-certified. She runs Cornerstones Executive Training, bespoke publishing and International government-level training programmes.
Guest lecturer and training workshop posts:
The London Book Fair, Columbia Journalism School in Oxford, HarperCollins, Roehampton University, York Festival of Writing, Salisbury Festival, I am Writing Conference, The Self-Publishing Conference, Bath Literary Festival, Bournemouth Literary Festival, SBWI (The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators), NAWG (National Writers’ Group), Romantic Novelists Association (RNA).
