Lucy has been editing and writing children’s books for 25 years, and is Managing Editor for children's publisher Farshore. She has been published by Hodder, HarperCollins, Stripes and Scholastic among others, and writes across the age range, with her most recent work in the younger middle-grade genre. She is the author of the Teach Yourself title Get Started in Writing an Illustrated Children’s Book (November 2016, John Murray/Hachette) and a regular contributor to The Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook. She has been with Cornerstones since 2015. Lucy is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: Children's and YA fiction, particularly humour, animals, magic, romance

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

Vicky is a freelance development editor working for publishers (including Oneworld, Little, Brown, Bookouture, Legend Press and RedDoor Press), agents and authors across a range of genres including literary fiction and narrative non-fiction, crime and psychological thrillers, women’s commercial fiction, historical sagas and series. She has worked in publishing for over thirteen years, and was Senior Fiction Editor at Myriad Editions for seven years, launching the careers of award-winning debut authors who went on to become New York Times and Amazon bestsellers. She has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Sussex and read for literary scout Sylvie Zannier-Betts before working in-house in rights and then becoming a commissioning editor. She won the Independent Publishers’ Guild Young Independent Publisher of the Year Award in 2013. She also teaches creative writing at workshops for universities and mentors writers through the publishing process from planning to completing a novel and publishing strategy. Her training as a commissioning editor means she is quick to spot potential and she enjoys working with an author to develop that promise, ensuring every book is as strong as it can be and has the best possible chance of success in a competitive market. Vicky is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: Contemporary and historical literary fiction, women's commercial fiction, psychological thrillers, memoir, literary non-fiction and short stories.