Brian Smith

About the role

Bryony has worked on fourteen books in total, with the eleventh book in a crime thriller series recently completed. This is described as a joyful and rewarding creative partnership.

Key contributions

• Helped refine craft in both close-up style and big-picture storytelling discipline
• Brings a copy-editor's forensic eye for detail
• Can switch to a reader's-eye view and tune in to story subtext and emotional impact
• Helped improve and optimise individual books
• Works on maintaining consistency and continuity across the series
• Developed an extensive story bible of character profiles and world elements, indispensable for developing a complex ongoing storyline with multiple narrative threads