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Welcome to Kathy Gale Publishing Services.
I have worked in book publishing for over twenty years and my key
roles have included Senior
Commissioning Editor
at Hodder & Stoughton, Editorial Director at Pan Macmillan, Publisher
and Joint Managing Director of The Women’s Press and Marketing
Director at Simon & Schuster.
I have
experience in editorial, marketing, publicity, sales, company and people
management.
I have worked as a publisher and editor
with a wide variety of authors, including Alice Walker, Janet Frame,
May Sarton, Val McDermid,
Manda Scott and Kate Cann; and I have run marketing campaigns for
Jackie Collins, Sting, Alan Titchmarsh, Paula Radcliffe, Jennifer Weiner,
Stephen E Ambrose,
Mineko Iwasaki and Michael Crick.
To discuss freelance or consultancy work, please contact me on:
Kathy Gale Publishing
Services
kathy.gale@kgpublishingservices.co.uk
‘I
have known Kathy Gale for over fifteen years and have always
admired her. She has had a unique career in publishing; editorial,
senior
management and marketing. Few people could embrace such a range of jobs
and do them all well, but Kathy’s intelligence, good judgement
and calm professionalism has always carried her through. I know that
Kathy is one of those people who makes a success of everything she wants
to do.’
Kate Jones, Literary Agent, ICM
‘As my publisher/editor,
Kathy Gale was astute, empathetic, entertaining, focussed and engaged.
I entirely
enjoyed working with her.’
Joan Barfoot
‘Kathy Gale was very important
in getting my first three books, the Diving In trilogy, successfully
published. As an editor, she was never afraid
to tell me where I’d gone astray, but she’d be enormously
supportive too. My sessions with her were honest, invigorating and,
most of all, creative. I’ve got a lot to thank her for.’
Kate
Cann
‘Kathy
Gale is a superb editor, extremely perceptive in seeing the true
shape, direction and texture of your writing and
helping you
to refocus, cut and restructure. Her sensitivity and respect for
the writing and the writer made her adept at helping you to do
this without
pain. In my earlier career, she was an immense support to me and
I learned a great deal from her.’
Stevie Davies
‘I worked with Kathy Gale over many years at Simon & Schuster.
She is a fantastic, collaborative, intelligent, smart woman, and I have
had so much fun working with her. Her ideas are great and she can certainly
see them through to the end. She is an asset to anyone!’
Jackie
Collins
‘Kathy Gale is a well-known and
respected figure in British publishing. She will be known to many from
her years as Joint Managing Director of
The Women’s Press where her business acumen and good relationships
with authors, agents and the book trade put the company on a
sound footing at a difficult time. She also has hands-on experience
of key areas of
publishing, including working closely with authors as an editor,
creating dramatic and effective marketing campaigns for a wide
variety of titles
and working closely with editorial and sales. Kathy knows the
publishing business from top to bottom.’
Diane
Spivey,
Rights Director, Time Warner Books
‘During her six years at Simon & Schuster,
Kathy spearheaded many successful marketing campaigns across hardback
and paperback, fiction
and non-fiction. She has always shown professionalism, dedication
and an unswerving commitment to excellence. Her contribution to the
growth
of Simon & Schuster has been significant.’
Ian Chapman,
Managing Director, Simon & Schuster
