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Rachel Rowlands, Book Editor & Author

About

  • Editor and author Rachel Rowlands headshot, with wavy blondey-brown hair and a blue flower-print dress
meet rachel

Hi, I’m Rachel! I edit and write books.


I started editing in 2017 and quickly turned my love of reading and writing into a full-time book-editing business. I’ve worked with some amazing writers and publishers all around the world, including Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Writers & Artists (run by Bloomsbury). Over the years, I’ve worked on 200+ books, including Amazon and New York Times bestsellers.

I’m also the author of the cat café romance series, published by Hodder & Stoughton. The first book, Snowed In at the Cat Café, has sold in eleven territories worldwide and has been translated into eight languages and counting. When you pick up one of my books, you can expect heartfelt and cosy love stories with plenty of emotion – and I hope you’ll go away feeling soothed and happy.

The personal side


I live in Greater Manchester, England with my husband and cat, Haru. As you can see, she enjoys supervising (snoozing) while I work on books all day!

When I’m not writing or editing, I’m usually playing video games, crying over romance Kdramas, or drinking too much coffee – although I’m British, so a cup of tea never goes amiss either!

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I went to IKEA recently, and someone had placed th I went to IKEA recently, and someone had placed this little stuffed cat inside a basket-house. Not sure if the basket is actually meant to be a house or just an oddly shaped decoration, but it's the perfect shape to house a stuffed animal, and it made me smile. 🐱 

The wider world feels very heavy right now (an understatement if ever there was one), but small moments of human fun, creativity, and whimsy like this one make me smile. Hope you've all been managing to find small moments of joy if you can. 🤍

Now I'm off back to my editing cave where I'll be working on some excellent client books. 📝
If you dig around on the internet long enough, you If you dig around on the internet long enough, you’ll probably encounter some of these myths about publishing…

The bookshop one definitely caught me out when I was a new traditionally published author! 👀 I was lucky enough to find my book in some Waterstones branches, but it wasn't in all of them – not even my local one, which I had been writing in for years! 

Are any of these surprising to you? 

#writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity
I was inspired by a recent Substack from @jackstra I was inspired by a recent Substack from @jackstrangeauthor talking about his journey writing romance and how it was almost fated. My own road to this genre was pretty unusual and something I truly didn't expect, even though it now feels very right for me, so I wrote about it in my own newsletter.

You can read it at the link in my bio. 🤍

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Editing clients

As an editor, I love working with authors one-on-one! I regularly work with self-publishing authors and writers who plan to submit traditionally. Some of my authors have signed with literary agents, landed book deals with major publishers, won awards, and hit bestseller lists. I’ve also worked with many publishing houses over the years, including:

  • Bedford Square Publishers
  • Badger Learning
  • Storm Publishing
  • Chicken House Books (imprint of Scholastic)
  • Ebury (imprint of Penguin Random House)
  • HarperCollins
  • Writers & Artists (platform for writers run by Bloomsbury)
  • Head of Zeus
  • Canelo
  • Hashtag Press
  • Black Library (publishing division of Games Workshop)
  • Bookouture (imprint of Hachette UK)
  • Thread Books (imprint of Hachette UK)

Get in touch

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I went to IKEA recently, and someone had placed th I went to IKEA recently, and someone had placed this little stuffed cat inside a basket-house. Not sure if the basket is actually meant to be a house or just an oddly shaped decoration, but it's the perfect shape to house a stuffed animal, and it made me smile. 🐱 

The wider world feels very heavy right now (an understatement if ever there was one), but small moments of human fun, creativity, and whimsy like this one make me smile. Hope you've all been managing to find small moments of joy if you can. 🤍

Now I'm off back to my editing cave where I'll be working on some excellent client books. 📝
If you dig around on the internet long enough, you If you dig around on the internet long enough, you’ll probably encounter some of these myths about publishing…

The bookshop one definitely caught me out when I was a new traditionally published author! 👀 I was lucky enough to find my book in some Waterstones branches, but it wasn't in all of them – not even my local one, which I had been writing in for years! 

Are any of these surprising to you? 

#writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity
I was inspired by a recent Substack from @jackstra I was inspired by a recent Substack from @jackstrangeauthor talking about his journey writing romance and how it was almost fated. My own road to this genre was pretty unusual and something I truly didn't expect, even though it now feels very right for me, so I wrote about it in my own newsletter.

You can read it at the link in my bio. 🤍

#romanceauthor #romancebooks
A day in the life of a professional fiction editor A day in the life of a professional fiction editor and author! I've seen other people do these and thought they looked fun, so here is mine! 📚

#authorsofinstagram #freelanceeditor #bookeditor

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