Jenny Parrott

Jenny Parrott is a former hard-news and crime journalist, and since moving into publishing in 1987, has commissioned fiction and non-fiction for Bloomsbury, HarperCollins, Oneworld and Little, Brown, latterly specialising in fiction across most kinds, and she was the first publishing director at the launches of bookclub imprints Borough Press at HarperCollins and Magpie at Oneworld. She has some book-to-film experience, and over the years has worked in a variety of editorial departments, and today carries out occasional consultancy work for literary agents and a major literary scout. Under pseudonyms, Jenny has or is writing a total of sixteen commercial novels for Orion, HarperCollins, Hodder, Bonnier, Wildfire (Headline) and Mountain Lion (Hodder), and she has also in the past ghosted non-fiction memoirs for celebrities. She has tutored both fiction and non-fiction creative writing groups and private clients since 2015.