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I am a writer and editor of children’s and educational books, both for the UK / international market, and specifically for African schools (having spent some time working in Kenya and Zimbabwe). In addition to writing and editing children’s non-fiction, I have written fiction readers, test and comprehension material for schools (fiction and non-fiction), articles on publishing for ‘The Bookseller’, ‘The Author’ and have contributed to the text for several sections of the Channel 4 website.

Contact details:

Address: 53 Tower Hamlets Road, London E17 4RQ

Phone: 020 8509 3657

Fax: 020 8509 0535

Email: jenny at jennypvaughan.co.uk

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I am reluctant to say how many years I’ve been in publishing: suffice to say, a great many, during which time I have been a lowly editor, a less lowly editor, a trainer of other editors and second in command for the non-net section of Macdonald Educational and also held a senior post for Longman Kenya. I’ve written intermittently, both non-fiction and fiction, mainly for children, but not always. In the middle of my book publishing career, I made a foray into magazine publishing, and was, for two years, Deputy Editor of the teachers’ magazine, Child Education. Since becoming freelance, I have edited and written for HarperCollins, National Foundation for Educational Research, Pearson, and Macmillan Education. This is in addition to my work for adults for Channel 4, and editorial work for Dorling Kindersley.