Headline’s Edwards promoted to senior commissioning editor

Headline’s Frankie Edwards has been promoted to senior commissioning editor with immediate effect. 

Currently commissioning editor, as part of the Headline Fiction team she has been editor for internationally bestselling author Neil Gaiman, devised Gaiman and Chris Riddell’s creative call to arms Art Matters, and put together the Sunday Times bestselling The Nice and Accurate Good Omens Script Book. 

She is also the editor for Alison Weir, author of The Six Tudor Queens and forthcoming Tudor Rose series, K J Maitland, the author of the Daniel Pursglove series, and the global digital bestseller Jodi Taylor. 

Edwards has also brought an array of reading-group fiction to the list, including The View Was Exhausting, Heatstroke and The Paris Bookseller, as well as Headline Review’s lead debut for 2022, Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer.

Jennifer Doyle, fiction publishing director, said: "I’m delighted to promote Frankie into a new role. She is such a smart, thoughtful and dedicated editor with fantastic taste, and this couldn’t be more deserved. She brings such passion and imagination to her publishing, whether it is some of Headline’s most treasured and long-established brand authors or the fresh, new talent she has brought to the list. I’m excited to see what she brings to the fiction list in the future."