#198 A zoom mentoring session for a published or unpublished non-fiction author from Sarah Rigby, Publishing Director at Elliott & Thompson

Updated biography:

Sarah Rigby is Publishing Director for Elliott & Thompson, an independent publisher of creative non-fiction - narrative books that are beautiful, insightful and informative. Their bestselling and award-winning authors include: Tim Marshall (Prisoners of Geography); Julia Boyd (Travellers in the Third Reich) and Horatio Clare (The Light in the Dark). Having joined the company in summer 2019, Sarah's recent acquisitions for Elliott & Thompson include: Nancy Campbell’s Fifty Words for Snow; Rebecca Schiller’s memoir Earthed and Bernadette Russell’s How to Be Hopeful. Previous to this role, Sarah was Senior Editor at Hutchinson – an imprint of Penguin Random House – where her bestselling and acclaimed authors included Leah Hazard (Hard Pushed); Professor Alice Roberts (Tamed); and Rob Cowen, whose book Common Ground was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and voted one of Britain’s top three nature books of all time. At Elliott & Thompson, Sarah is publishing Cowen's forthcoming book with Nick Hayes, The Heeding. Her publishing career began at independent publisher Atlantic Books after studying English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She has been a mentor for The WoMentoring Project and the WriteNow scheme for underrepresented writers and was named a Bookseller Rising Star in 2014, in addition to being shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for women in publishing. Originally from Yorkshire, she now lives in London with her husband and daughter.

*Please note, as stated on the main page this auction is UK shipping only for the physical prizes - Zoom calls and mentoring plus online critiques are open internationally*

The bid increment was changed from £1 to £10.