Set up by Polly Nolan in 2020, PaperCuts' mission is to help you to write the very best books you can.  

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Polly has an intimidating amount of publishing and editing experience . . . but, happily, isn't an intimidating person.

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Polly grew up in Ireland and moved to London in the early 1990s to 'get a job in publishing'.  In a long and happy career, she has worked at:

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* Reed Elsevier (which became Egmont Children's Books), as Foreign Rights Assistant.

* Egmont Children's Books, as (possibly the worst ever) Secretary to the Publisher until -  thankfully for all concerned - she became a Junior Editor and then an Editor.

* Orion Children's Books, as Commissioning Editor.

* Oxford University Press, as Senior Commissioning Editor of Children's Fiction.

* Scholastic, as Editorial Director of Fiction.

* Macmillan Children's Books, as Associate Publishing Director and, later, Editor-at-Large.

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In 2013, she swapped the editor’s side of the desk for the agent’s, joining Greenhouse Literary Agency where she looked after the UK side of the business, building a successful client list from scratch.  She took this experience to her very own agency and consultancy, PaperCuts, where she continues to help and to represent authors across the globe.

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Polly is approachable, realistic and professional.  She loves to help authors to write as well as they can, and to tell the best version of their stories.   

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