👩🏫 EDITOR HOUR: Leah Thaxton
** This is a LIVE session and will not be recorded. **
Bring your questions or your work-in-progress and get individualised feedback from an expert editor.
This week, we're joined by Leah Thaxton.
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A question about craft, editing, or the publication process.
**Please note: Editor Hours are NOT recorded (except for Gold Members who individually request this ahead of time). This enables our guests and you as participants to be as open and honest as possible.**
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Questions for our guest experts will be answered live over a 60-minute Zoom session.
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🤚 Priority Questions / Feedback: We will prioritize questions from Gold members if submitted in advance in the comment section below.
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About Leah Thaxton
Leah Thaxton is the Children’s Publisher at Faber & Faber, in charge of a list that spans picture books to young adult. Faber & Faber is an award-winning, independent publisher of the very best books for children and young adults, committed to the principle that if all children see themselves in stories, they will go on to feel inspired to read more and reach their fullest potential.
Leah has signed authors as varied as Kieran Larwood, Jim Smith, Jeffrey Boakye, Francesca Simon, and Marissa Meyer, and illustrators such as Luke Edward Hall, Rebecca Cobb, and Chris Mould.
Leah is co-founder of the FAB Prize, the only prize that champions new writers and illustrators of colour, and she set up Creative Pride which enables LGBTQ+ creatives to submit directly to Faber & Faber’s editorial team. Leah won the Branford Boase Prize in 2023 for Best Editor, and most recently launched the Action! Prize with Film & TV producer Eddie Gamarra in direct response to the current reading crisis.
Leah is also a published author under the pen name Katie Blackburn, including the bestselling ‘Where the Wild Mums Are’, ‘Scoot’, and ‘Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep’. She is a World Book Day author 2026, writing The Big Bang for Rose Ayling Ellis, illustrated by Paddy Donnelly.
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