services

With over 25 years of bookselling and publishing experience, I offer the following services to make good books happen and to place books of quality and substance into people’s hands, heads and hearts:

Publishing consultation:

I work with publishers at any and all stages of book publishing: initiating and pitching concepts and new ideas, commissioning authors, project development, guiding design and production through to author care, targeted marketing and sales.

For new ideas, creative and commercial direction and input on your current and future projects, just drop me a message and we can get started.

Publisher & author marketing, publicity, sales and events:

As dynamic as publishing sales and marketing has become in recent years, there’s no escaping the fact that success in bookselling is underpinned by grass-roots human connection, exchange and building on trusted relationships.

If you are a publisher looking to raise your awareness and profile across the UK, I can help. From media and press features, author care, to targeting key buyers, influencers and bookstores with new title information, samples and word-of-mouth recommendations, to setting up events and launches, please contact me today to see what we can do together.

Editorial:

I also provide individual mentorship, feedback and editorial services for artists and writers working across fiction, narrative non-fiction and the visual arts.

As a copy editor, I can help formalise and shape up and enhance the readability of manuscripts with accuracy, care and precision.

If you are setting out in writing and publishing and are looking for direction and guidance about the marketplace, book trade and publishing world, send me a message!

“Simon wasn’t solely picked for the task of editing our first book on the strength of his existing copyrighting portfolio, but also for his unique insider knowledge of countercultural vernacular. The ideal editor to navigate coded prose, he brought clarity and fluidity and made welcome structural additions and tweaks throughout, elevating the manuscript to a whole new level.” - Christopher Stead, author of Ghost In The Machine, (Alias Press, 2025).

I am based in London and happy to meet in person or online. If you would like to discuss working together please email hello@errantbooks.com