#198 A zoom mentoring session for a published or unpublished non-fiction author from Sarah Rigby, Publishing Director at Elliott & Thompson

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Sarah Rigby is a Publisher of narrative non-fiction writers, including Tim Marshall, Rebecca Schiller, Dharshini David and Rob Cowen. She works at Elliott and Thompson and is offering a Zoom mentoring session for a Non-Fiction writer, published or unpublished. This is a brilliant chance to seek feedback and advice on your work.

About Sarah:

Sarah Rigby is Publishing Director for Elliott & Thompson, having joined in summer 2019 to cover parental leave for Publisher Jennie Condell. Recent acquisitions for E&T include: Nancy Campbell’s 50 Words for Snow; Rebecca Schiller’s forthcoming memoir 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: A Midwife’s Story); Professor Alice Roberts (Tamed: Ten Species that Changed Our World); Shaun Usher (Speeches of Note); and Rob Cowen, whose Common Ground was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and voted one of Britain’s top three nature books of all time. She also led the team that created the international and Sunday Times bestseller Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Francesc Miralles and Héctor García. Her publishing career began at independent 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.

Update at 3:13pm, 10 May 2021

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.

Update at 1:25pm, 11 May 2021

*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*

Update at 9:02pm, 20 May 2021

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

Bidding ended: 11:59pm, 21 May 202111:59pm, Friday 21 May 2021Europe/London

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Bidder Time Bid
Sarah McEvoy-Horton 11:57pm 21 May 2021 £186
michael_99 4:26pm 21 May 2021 £136
Sarah McEvoy-Horton 1:52pm 21 May 2021 £126
simon_craven 9:03pm 10 May 2021 £106
Esther Harris 8:23pm 09 May 2021 £15
Penny Jenkins 5:06pm 09 May 2021 £10