Rachel is currently Acting Editorial Director, heading up the editorial team while our Publisher, Joanne Grant, is out on maternity leave. She joined Severn House in 2019 as Senior Commissioning Editor – her second time in the company, having joined back in 2008 as a Junior Editor. She edits and acquires a wide range of genre fiction, from cosies and historical mysteries to urban fantasy and thrillers. If it’s page-turning, she wants to read it! Authors she works with include New York Times-bestsellers Lee Goldberg, Wendy Corsi Staub, Simon R. Green, Barbara Hambly, and Sunday Times bestseller David Mark. She lives just outside London and enjoys cryptic crosswords, cake, and cats.