Clare Grist Taylor

Clare has been a publisher for 35 years. She has worked in academic, professional and trade sectors, publishing everything from trade books to large-scale online reference works. She started her career at Pergamon Press, was European editorial director at Prentice Hall, managing director of ICSA Publishing and business and operations director at Profile Books. She now works for herself, helping people to tell their stories as an agent and editor and sharing what she knows through training and mentoring. She is a course leader at the Publishing Training Centre, an Independent Publishers Guild mentor, a Sub-Committee member at the University of Wales Press and a trustee of the Montgomeryshire Literary Festival.