Michael Spilling Email & Phone Number

Project manage up to 50 new and revised titles per year. Part of a management team that develops and presents new book ideas. Responsibilities include managing schedules and budgets, commissioning authors and illustrators, commissioning maps, briefing copy editors, and sourcing content for a range of titles in subject areas such as general history, military history, military technology, outdoor activities, survival and true crime. Also writes promotional material and jacket copy. Clients include: Barnes & Noble, Scholastic, Readerlink, Readers' Digest, Marshall Cavendish Int.

• Writing and updating general reference country guides (Cultures of the World series) for Marshall Cavendish International.• Developmental editing and copy editing history, travel, business, self-help and fiction titles. Specializations: peoples, culture, and history of Southeast Asia; military history and technology.

Managed a range of MBS books, including the innovative Flowmotion series. Responsibilities included commissioning titles, copy editing, proofreading and directing photo shoots.

Dunstable

Managed a range of teacher and pupil resource books for the UK primary and secondary school market. Subjects included English, Maths, History, Religious Studies and PPSHE.

Singapore

Managed a range of Southeast Asian fiction and illustrated reference for the US schools library market. Responsibilities included copy editing, proofreading, picture research and writing jacket copy and promotional materials.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Southeast Asian Studies, Merit

Certificate In Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages (Tesol)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Comparative Literary Studies And Philosophy, 2:1