Sam Eades
Sam is an award-winning publisher, editor and publicist with twenty years’ experience working on commercial fiction bestsellers. Her specialist areas are: crime and thrillers, psychological thrillers, women's fiction, book club, horror and romance.
She has worked at three of the big five UK publishing houses: PRH, Hachette UK and Macmillan. Most recently, she ran the Orion Fiction team, the largest imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, working with authors including MJ Arlidge, Sharon Bolton, Cathy Bramley, Harlan Coben, Lorraine Kelly, Kate Mosse, Michelle Paver and Sarah Pinborough.
Sam draws her creative energy from working closely with authors to help fulfil their potential and build their confidence. She has been a guest speaker at Curtis Brown Creative, Faber Academy, London Met, Goldsmiths, Harrogate Crime Writing Festival and Bloody Scotland. She has also mentored writers through the Womentoring and Black Girl Writers Programme, and helped set up creative writing prizes for unpublished writers with eHarmony, the charity Gingerbread and the inaugural Orion Books x AM Heath x Crime Monthly crime writing prize.