Adam is the bestselling ghostwriter of more than sixty titles. He has collaborated on fiction and non-fiction books that have sold millions of copies worldwide and which regularly appear in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller lists. He has accrued hundreds of thousands of five-star Amazon and Goodreads reviews, and his clients include many household names.

Adam was Editorial Director of John Blake Publishing for nearly ten years before turning freelance. Now, as well as routinely writing for all the major publishers (including Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan), he is often called upon to book-doctor manuscripts that require substantial pre-publication editorial attention. He has worked extensively across most genres of adult and young adult publishing, and prides himself on his ability to work sensitively and discreetly with a wide range of clients on an eclectic range of books.

Adam has a passion for helping authors and publishers turn great ideas into brilliant books, and for empowering less experienced writers to transform their manuscripts into the best possible versions of themselves. Adam is an Industry editor.

Interests: All genres, with particular experience working on memoirs, thrillers, YA, self-help, humour, food & drink and true crime.

Antonia is an experienced editor, writer and tutor and an Advanced Professional Member of CIEP. With 30 years in book publishing, she provides a range of editorial services for both non-fiction and fiction. She is an industry development editor and copy-editor/proofreader, specialising in children’s fiction, memoir, commercial fiction and narrative non-fiction. She writes for children and her debut middle-grade novel Terra Electrica: The Guardians of the North (Book 1) publishes in 2024 with Neem Tree Press. As well as teaching editorial skills, she offers mentoring and manuscript development services to indie authors, and leads creative writing workshops and guest lectures on editing and writing. She is a Cornerstones Industry editor, as well as a Copy-Editor and Proofreader.

Interests: commercial non-fiction, memoir, children’s (MG and YA fiction and non-fiction), literary and commercial fiction

Kathryn is course director and tutor for our online course, Edit Your Novel the Professional Way, and co-author of On Editing, the essential Cornerstones guide to writing and editing. She spent several years working for literary agencies before joining Cornerstones as managing editor and later co-director. Over nearly twenty years with Cornerstones she has worked with many of their authors who went on to achieve publishing success – including Kate Scott, Kim Hays, Alison O'Leary, Celia Bryce, and Sarwat Chadda. Kathryn is a Cornerstones Consultancy editor.

Interests: children's fiction, fantasy, science fiction, literary, commercial.

Edward is an author, former business consultant, publisher and commercial editor. His editing credits include two Man Booker contenders – one of which also won the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel in 2013 – and a shortlisting for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller in 2011. He has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and was the founder and publishing director of Myrmidon Books from 2005–2015, where he personally evaluated, acquired, edited over forty fiction and non-fiction titles including Tan Twan Eng’s Booker-recognized The Gift of Rain (longlist) and The Garden of Evening Mists (shortlist) and other bestsellers. He has been an editor and mentor with Cornerstones since 2012. Edward is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: literary fiction, commercial fiction, popular history, business, current affairs

Laura is a freelance editor with over nine years’ experience in the publishing industry. Most recently, she was a Commissioning Editor at Orion where she worked with many award-winning, and Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling authors. Previously she worked for Hodder & Stoughton as an ebook proofreader and has also interned at Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Leeds and an MA in Publishing from University College London. Laura has appeared on panels for the Romantic Novelists’ Association and was on the judging panel for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award in 2015. Laura is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: commercial fiction, women's fiction, reading group fiction, crime fiction, thrillers, psychological suspense, saga, historical fiction.

Jonathan has been an editor for 20 years, and has commissioned many books for Bloomsbury Publishing. Writers he has worked with on a freelance basis have gone on to be published by HarperCollins, Bonnier, Boldwood, Orenda and others. Recent successes include the bestselling thriller writer Alex Stone and hotly anticipated debut children’s author Laura Noakes. He is the author or co-author of six books of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, and as a writer himself understands the need to create a supportive creative environment with his clients. Jonathan is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: YA, children's (middle grade), literary and general fiction, historical, sci-fi/fantasy, non-fiction/memoir

Lil Chase is a Senior Editor at Hachette Children's Group, working for their Series & Brands team. There she creates and edits fiction for children of all ages, from early chapter books to YA. Lil has had a varied experience in the publishing industry: she worked at ‘romance HQ’ a.k.a Harlequin Mills & Boon. She's currently a regular freelancer for a new online publisher - Dawn Hill Publications - editing their adult romance novels.

For twelve years she was a Senior Commissioning Editor at Working Partners Ltd, the creative company behind massive commercial successes such as the Rainbow Magic, Beast Quest and Warrior Cats series. More recently, she worked as an editor for the Caroline Wakeman Literary Agency, where she gained experience in editing picture books. Lil is also an author in her own right; she has written six books as sole author, and many more as a writer-for-hire. She is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: commercial fiction of all kinds – from picture books to adult. Special interest: humour and heart.

Monica has over twenty years’ experience as an editor in the publishing industry, with a number of titles topping the Sunday Times Bestseller List. She has an MA in English Literature from Cambridge University and a post-graduate year learning print production at UAL.

She worked as an Editorial Director at HarperCollins Publishers, where she commissioned and edited her own list, transforming manuscripts and original ideas into successful, desirable books for a competitive market. She also has previous experience working for Picador, Profile Books, Faber Academy, and Dorling Kindersley. She has been an Industry editor at Cornerstones for many years, and now heads the scouting programme. Monica is an in-house editor.

Interests: Non-fiction, contemporary and historical literary fiction, women's commercial fiction, older children’s books