Rachel is The History Quill’s executive editor. She is our lead content editor and manages our editing and group coaching operations, as well as our content and resources. She lives by the sea in Essex, UK.

Along with having a degree in English literature and creative writing, Rachel has also completed professional courses in editing. She reads widely within the historical fiction genre and is passionate about supporting writers of all backgrounds, experience levels, and subgenres. She has a particular penchant for stories that fall within the realm of the gothic or supernatural, along with dual-timeline stories that blend past and present. She is especially interested in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, along with WWI and WWII.

If Rachel were stranded on a desert island, the two historical novels she would want with her are The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (the first book in the atmospheric, genre-defying Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet, set in post-Civil War Barcelona) and The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (for its elegance, its slow-burn creepiness, and its brilliant depiction of class tensions in post-WWII England).