Amber Caravéo

Until leaving to set up Skylark Literary, Amber was the Editorial Director at Orion Children’s Books where she was privileged to work with some of the best authors in Children's and YA fiction today, including Liz Kessler, Caroline Lawrence, Juno Dawson and Holly Black. Prior to that she was Senior Commissioning Editor for Random House Children’s Books, where she worked with a plethora of SAS superhero authors, such as Andy McNab, Chris Ryan and Bear Grylls, and developed fun and fantastic series for kids, such as Gargoylz and Adventure Island.

It all started when Amber went to work for Working Partners far too many years ago, and realized that working creatively with authors to produce wonderful books for children was all she ever wanted to do! She was lucky enough to work on many exciting and successful series, including The Lady Grace Mysteries, My Sister the Vampire, Heartland, Vampire Beach and the million-copy-selling phenomenon, Rainbow Magic.

Amber and Joanna first met when working on a middle-grade adventure series together, Talisman, which Amber developed while she was at Working Partners and Joanna published while she was at Hodder Children's Books.

Amber now uses her experience to support talented children’s authors, and build happy and successful relationships between writers and publishers.

You can follow Amber on Twitter at @AmberCaraveo and Skylark Literary at @SkylarkLit

Joanna Moult

Joanna began her publishing career at Hodder Children's Books learning from some of the best editors in the business and editing fantastic authors including Cressida Cowell, Alex Shearer and Kes Gray, as well as creating fiction for brands such as Felicity Wishes. She left to cover maternity leave, running the Children's Editorial Department at Simon & Schuster Children’s Books. There, among other things, she edited Sophie McKenzie’s award-winning debut novel Girl, Missing and the Yuck series by the Beastly Boys.

She left Simon & Schuster to have children and spent over a year living in India and editing an ex-pat magazine. On her return to the UK, aside from nurturing her own readers-of-the-future, she became Editorial Director for Children’s Fiction at literary agents Mulcahy Conway Associates, where she worked to seek out new talent and edit submissions to publishers.

Having been inspired by this experience and bitten by the bug of discovering great new voices in children's books, becoming a children's literary agent and setting up Skylark with Amber was a natural next step.

You can follow Joanna on Twitter at @JoannaMoult and Skylark Literary at @SkylarkLit