• "Katy is an incredible editor and a secret weapon for any agency or author. She has remarkable industry insight and market awareness, which adds an essential edge to her editorial work. As an editor works with passion, compassion and ambition and helps authors ensure their manuscripts are the very best they can be. She balances an eagle eye on character with a genius on plotting. I highly recommend working with Katy."

    Camilla Bolton, Director and Literary Agent, Darley Anderson Agency

  • "The wizardry of Katy Loftus in putting my flabby, lethargic first draft through an exhausting boot camp of structural editing and plot refinement is appreciated more than I was possibly able to express at the time... Katy’s Rumplestiltskinesque talent for spinning straw into gold has been a wonder to behold."

    — The Secret Barrister, writing as S. J. Fleet (author of The Cut Throat Trial), represented by Chris Wellbelove of Aitken Alexander Literary Agency

  • "Katy Loftus helped me take my manuscript from a jumbled mess to a finished novel that drew interest from several literary agents and ultimately secured me representation. Working with her has made me grow as a writer more than any course or writing group ever has. Katy possesses a rare mix of warmth, intuition and razor-sharp talent, and she knows exactly when to push and when to encourage. She has incredible editorial judgement and deep industry insight, which means she can provide support and advice on every aspect of writing, editing, querying and publishing a novel. She is also a truly lovely person! Anyone who gets the chance to work with Katy on their manuscript has struck gold."

    — A. C. Guest (author of The Afterthoughts, represented by Charlotte Seymour at Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency)

  • "Katy has an amazing ability to help writers get to the nub of what their work is about, and focus and heighten the impact of their storytelling. She's an insightful editor full of great ideas, and her feedback is always astute and enriching as well as commercially strategic. She's a gift to writers wanting to take the next step towards publication."

    — Anna Power, literary agent at Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency

  • 'Without the sound advice of Katy there is no way I could have sold my debut novel. Her wealth of experience and insight was invaluable in navigating the choppy waters of selling a first work of fiction and it cut through the wildly conflicting advice available online. In an industry that occasionally seems to despise creatives, Katy has a unique gift at dealing with writers: she delivers tough love gracefully - and she is always right.'

    Esther Walker, journalist and author of Well, This is Awkward (represented by Alice Saunders at Soho Literary Agency)

  • "Katy is a brilliant editor. She is thoughtful, meticulous, insightful and has a fantastic sense of story. Her advice and suggestions about my manuscript helped me take it to a different level. It’s hard to get a clear perspective on a novel draft which you have been working on for months (or years), and she enabled me to do exactly that. All this, and she is warm and funny – an absolute pleasure to work with. I would recommend her to writers at any stage of their career."

    — Sally O’Reilly (Royal Literary Fund Fellow and author of Hagtale and other acclaimed novels, represented by Joanna Swainson at Hardman & Swainson)

  • "Thanks to Katy Loftus for her faith in this book and for putting her finger on the one thing that would make most difference"

    — Tana French (author), from the Acknowledgements of The Wych Elm