Creative Work
Creative Work
I’m a seasoned publishing executive, editor, literary agent, and author with over two decades of experience across the US and UK. As the Head of Global Publishing at StoryTerrace in London, I’ve led the in-housing and strategic transformation of the company’s self-publishing programme and oversee a transatlantic team of publishing specialists and marketers. I also manage StoryTerrace’s PRO premium line of books, working closely with author clients ranging from restaurateurs and British aristocrats to a former NYPD police detective.
I’m a seasoned publishing executive, editor, literary agent, and author with over two decades of experience across the US and UK. As the Head of Global Publishing at StoryTerrace in London, I’ve led the in-housing and strategic transformation of the company’s self-publishing programme and oversee a transatlantic team of publishing specialists and marketers. I also manage StoryTerrace’s PRO premium line of books, working closely with author clients ranging from restaurateurs and British aristocrats to a former NYPD police detective.
Current Projects
Current Projects
Art in the Extreme
What does it mean to be an artist when the world around you seems to conspire against the very act of creativity? How do you draw inspiration from the most horrific and traumatic of experiences and somehow find meaning and even beauty in the rawest of circumstances?
Art in the Extreme is more than a book, it’s a movement. Like the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s, this collective challenges conventions, but with a broader, more inclusive scope. While the YBAs shocked the art world with provocative conceptual works rooted in Western urban culture, the artists of Art in the Extreme take their defiance beyond gallery walls, embedding their art within the landscapes of war, industry, and nature itself. Their rebellion isn’t just against contemporary artistic norms, but against the very circumstances that threaten creative expression.
Art in the Extreme
What does it mean to be an artist when the world around you seems to conspire against the very act of creativity? How do you draw inspiration from the most horrific and traumatic of experiences and somehow find meaning and even beauty in the rawest of circumstances?
Art in the Extreme is more than a book, it’s a movement. Like the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s, this collective challenges conventions, but with a broader, more inclusive scope. While the YBAs shocked the art world with provocative conceptual works rooted in Western urban culture, the artists of Art in the Extreme take their defiance beyond gallery walls, embedding their art within the landscapes of war, industry, and nature itself. Their rebellion isn’t just against contemporary artistic norms, but against the very circumstances that threaten creative expression.
Future Truths
Future Truths is a work-in-progress, a literary novel I originally wrote years ago and have recently pulled out of the drawer, dusted off, and am working with a development editor to prepare for agent/publisher submissions. It’s the first in a trilogy of novels set in and around London and New York circa 1938-1942, narrated by Hubert Macafferty, a twenty-something flaneur, reflecting on his many lives and loves against a backdrop of war, decadence, and glamour. This excerpt is taken from later in the novel and is told from the perspective of Delia, the novel’s main female character, telling Hubert her side of a love triangle between herself, Hubert, and Rafe, a now deceased young artist in London just before the war.
Future Truths
Future Truths is a work-in-progress, a literary novel I originally wrote years ago and have recently pulled out of the drawer, dusted off, and am working with a development editor to prepare for agent/publisher submissions. It’s the first in a trilogy of novels set in and around London and New York circa 1938-1942, narrated by Hubert Macafferty, a twenty-something flaneur, reflecting on his many lives and loves against a backdrop of war, decadence, and glamour. This excerpt is taken from later in the novel and is told from the perspective of Delia, the novel’s main female character, telling Hubert her side of a love triangle between herself, Hubert, and Rafe, a now deceased young artist in London just before the war.
Posh
Meet the Templetons – one of England’s most illustrious dynasties – gathered together at their Dorset estate for a weekend of horse-racing, familial one-upmanship, and unabashed poshness. But this year, all is not what it seems. Lord Carleton, the esteemed patriarch, is on his deathbed. His new wife, Lady Eliza Brookings, is hell-bent on dragging the family into the 21st century with the help of the formidable ex-nun (and ex-con) Sister Francine. There’s five hundred thousand in mixed currencies stolen from some very shady Russians, a succession battle looming, and a mysterious and dangerously beautiful woman named Svetlana Slutskaya on the march with her army of Death Angels, intent on overthrowing the patriarchy and establishing a new world order.
Posh, Book One of The Templeton Family Chronicles, introduces readers to a world of power and privilege, where nothing is sacred, where alliances are made and destroyed based on who has the most to offer and who can afford the highest price tag.
There’s the way of the world. And then there’s the Templeton way.
Posh
Meet the Templetons – one of England’s most illustrious dynasties – gathered together at their Dorset estate for a weekend of horse-racing, familial one-upmanship, and unabashed poshness. But this year, all is not what it seems. Lord Carleton, the esteemed patriarch, is on his deathbed. His new wife, Lady Eliza Brookings, is hell-bent on dragging the family into the 21st century with the help of the formidable ex-nun (and ex-con) Sister Francine. There’s five hundred thousand in mixed currencies stolen from some very shady Russians, a succession battle looming, and a mysterious and dangerously beautiful woman named Svetlana Slutskaya on the march with her army of Death Angels, intent on overthrowing the patriarchy and establishing a new world order.
Posh, Book One of The Templeton Family Chronicles, introduces readers to a world of power and privilege, where nothing is sacred, where alliances are made and destroyed based on who has the most to offer and who can afford the highest price tag.
There’s the way of the world. And then there’s the Templeton way.
Trash
Book Two of The Templeton Family Chronicles The sequel to Posh
Welcome to Beverly Hills, where the sun isn’t the only thing that burns…
In Trash (or American Carnage), the Templeton universe widens as a new cast takes the stage, under the unforgiving sunshine of Southern California. At its center is Lady MacPherson, Beverly Hills’ leading relationship therapist, whose impeccably curated life begins to crack. Her husband, Dr. Noah Steinman, a newly tenured biochemist at UCLA, is harboring secrets, and nurturing an obsession that could detonate their marriage.
And spiraling through their world is Naomi Wasserman: gorgeous, mysterious, and dangerously unhinged. Her arrival in Beverly Hills unleashes a wave of seduction, betrayal, and emotional carnage that no one in her orbit will escape.
Meanwhile, back in London, Chloe Templeton – still reeling from Guy’s betrayal – acquires a new assistant who is far from what she seems; and Tessa prepares for her Fashion Week debut as a figure from her past threatens to unravel her carefully crafted identity.
Bold, sharp, and irresistibly entertaining, Trash (or American Carnage) plunges deeper into the Templeton world where glamour meets madness, excess reigns supreme, and everyone pays the price.
Trash
Book Two of The Templeton Family Chronicles The sequel to Posh
Welcome to Beverly Hills, where the sun isn’t the only thing that burns…
In Trash (or American Carnage), the Templeton universe widens as a new cast takes the stage, under the unforgiving sunshine of Southern California. At its center is Lady MacPherson, Beverly Hills’ leading relationship therapist, whose impeccably curated life begins to crack. Her husband, Dr. Noah Steinman, a newly tenured biochemist at UCLA, is harboring secrets, and nurturing an obsession that could detonate their marriage.
And spiraling through their world is Naomi Wasserman: gorgeous, mysterious, and dangerously unhinged. Her arrival in Beverly Hills unleashes a wave of seduction, betrayal, and emotional carnage that no one in her orbit will escape.
Meanwhile, back in London, Chloe Templeton – still reeling from Guy’s betrayal – acquires a new assistant who is far from what she seems; and Tessa prepares for her Fashion Week debut as a figure from her past threatens to unravel her carefully crafted identity.
Bold, sharp, and irresistibly entertaining, Trash (or American Carnage) plunges deeper into the Templeton world where glamour meets madness, excess reigns supreme, and everyone pays the price.
The Pathfinder
The Pathfinder is a cinematic, soul-baring memoir from Ralph Rieckermann, former bassist of the legendary rock band Scorpions, and a three-time award-winning film composer. Told with raw honesty, biting humor, and spiritual depth, this coming-of-age journey charts the chaotic, painful, and transcendent path that led one rebellious teenager from the dark corners of a broken home in Germany to global stages and artistic freedom.
But this is not just another rockstar memoir.
I am representing this project as a literary agent through StoryTerrace and a book proposal is currently available to publishers upon request.
The Pathfinder
The Pathfinder is a cinematic, soul-baring memoir from Ralph Rieckermann, former bassist of the legendary rock band Scorpions, and a three-time award-winning film composer. Told with raw honesty, biting humor, and spiritual depth, this coming-of-age journey charts the chaotic, painful, and transcendent path that led one rebellious teenager from the dark corners of a broken home in Germany to global stages and artistic freedom.
But this is not just another rockstar memoir.
I am representing this project as a literary agent through StoryTerrace and a book proposal is currently available to publishers upon request.
Selected Works
Below are a selection of just a few books I have worked on throughout my career. Click on each book cover to find our more…
Selected Works
Below are a selection of just a few books I have worked on throughout my career. Click on each book cover to find our more…
