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Award-winning authors

The help and advice provided by Gale Winskill, of Winskill Editorial, were invaluable.

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Colin M. Drysdale, award-winning author

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It is a privilege to have worked with authors who have gone on to be recognized for their work. Here are a few of the accolades they’ve acquired:

  • Merky Books New Writers' Prize: shortlisted title

  • Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, Australia: shortlisted title

  • Novel London Literary Competition: second prize

  • Creative Future Award: silver prize winner

  • Owned Voices Novel Award: shortlisted title

  • London Library Emerging Writers’ Award: shortlisted title

  • Leeds Literary Prize: silver winner

  • Crime Writers’ Association, John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award: winner 

  • Best Indie Book Awards (horror): winner

  • First Novel (>80,000 words category), Next Generation Indie Book Awards: winner

  • Scottish Children’s Book Awards: two winners and a finalist 

  • Branford Boase Award: two longlisted titles

  • All Kelpies Prize winners, 2005–2008

Clients

My clients include independent authors throughout the world, for example: in the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Middle East, USA, and elsewhere. Many go on to submit to traditional publishing houses, whereas others choose to self-publish. In addition, I have worked for a variety of publishing houses, training organizations and businesses. See below for examples.

Thank you so much for this attentive, detailed work, which was exactly what this book needed.

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Lily Cooper, Commissioning Editor, Hodder & Stoughton

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  • Birlinn

  • Black & White

  • BMV Media, The Netherlands

  • Books & Software Ltd, Hong Kong

  • Chartered Institute for Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)

  • Cornerstones

  • Cymera Festival

  • Edinburgh Writers’ Forum

  • Glasgow Women’s Library

  • GW Publishing

  • Harper Inspire

  • HarperCollins Author Academy

  • HarperNonFiction

  • Hodder & Stoughton

  • Hodderscape

  • HQ Nonfiction

  • Impress Books

  • Leannta Education Associates

  • Lunicorn Press

  • Mainstream

  • National Bureau of Translations, Kazakhstan

  • NKD, London

  • Phoenix Yard Books

  • Publishing Scotland

  • Publishing Training Centre

  • Routledge

  • Royal Commission on the Historic and Ancient Monuments of Scotland

  • SalesTribe

  • SilverWood Books

  • Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (Scotland) (SCBWI)

  • Starfish Bay Children's Books, Australia​

  • Swales & Willis

  • Vendana, Germany

  • Wattle Publishing

  • Waverley Books

  • William Collins

  • Wombles Operation Ltd

Gale is a tireless, creative, skilled and dependable editor.

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John Richardson, Black & White Publishing

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