Chris Holifield 

Chris Holifield is the managing director of WritersServices.  She has spent her working life in publishing, employed by everything from global corporations to start-ups.  Her track record includes working as editorial director of Sphere Books, publishing director of The Bodley Head, publishing director for the start-up of the upmarket book club, The Softback Preview, editorial director of Britain’s biggest book club group, BCA, and, most recently, deputy MD and publisher of Cassell & Co. She is also currently the Director of the Poetry Book Society.

During all of this time she has been aware of the problems faced by writers, as publishing has changed from an idiosyncratic cottage industry, ‘an occupation for gentlemen’, into the corporate business of today. Writers have encountered increasing difficulty in getting their books edited or published.  Authors create the books which are the raw material for the whole business.  She believes it is time to bring them back to centre stage.

Charles Jones

Chas Jones is the nerd responsible for keeping the site running. He has spent 25 years in the computer business. He started out dusting bugs off the valves, but in time graduated to writing software and managing projects. As a published author with a stack of waiting-to-be-published manuscripts tucked away, WritersServices is the answer to his silent prayer.  His book 'Ordinary Heroes', an extraordinary true story of wartime adventure, and he has recently published a  book about the Battle of Fulford. 'Fulford the forgotten battle of 1066', published by Tempus ISBN 0752438107.(Follow this link to order a signed copy of the book.