Meet the team

Meet the One More Chapter team! We are digital publishing experts with extensive experience across the industry. We work together extremely closely to ensure our books are the best they can be.

Charlotte Ledger

Publisher

Charlotte is Publisher of One More Chapter. She started in publishing in 2011 at Mills & Boon before moving across to HarperCollins in 2013. Since then, she has worked across commercial fiction from Sunday Times bestseller Evie Woods to Julie Caplin, who has sold over two million copies worldwide. A champion for digital publishing, Charlotte was highly commended at the Futurebook awards and won the Book Marketing Society’s Best Shoestring Campaign for her work on the first online romance festival. She was shortlisted for The Bookseller and SYP’s Trailblazer of the Year award and has won the Romantic Novelist Association’s Publisher of the Year award twice, nominated a third time. Charlotte is looking for strong, unique voices and fresh twists on popular themes.

Jennie Rothwell

Editorial Director

Jennie is Editorial Director at One More Chapter. She started her publishing career at Avon and has since worked at Sphere, Zaffre Books and Century Fiction before joining the team at One More Chapter in 2021. She has worked across all genres of commercial fiction; from crime and thriller, historical and saga to contemporary women’s fiction. She has helped launch the success of many Sunday Times bestselling authors as well as working with established authors including T.M. Logan, Nicholas Sparks, Katie Flynn and E L James. Jennie loves crime fiction with a dark twist and unreliable narrators and is looking for gripping new perspectives to publish into the genre. Alongside this she is also looking for contemporary zeitgeisty romances and stories from underrepresented voices.

Katie Sadler

Marketing Director

Katie Sadler has been working in book marketing since 2007. Following twelve years of experience at Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Hachette, she established her freelance business in 2019 to work directly with authors and publishers. She has developed marketing campaigns for traditionally and independently published authors across all genres, and launched Plotting, a Substack publication to help authors learn more about marketing. She has also worked on projects for PRH, HarperCollins, Hachette, Bonnier, Canelo, and more.
During her time at HarperCollins, Katie played a key role in launching HarperImpulse and later served as a consultant for its rebrand to One More Chapter. She looks forward to rejoining the team and contributing to the company’s future growth in the coming years.

Lucy Bennett

Art Director

Lucy is our Art Director, and has been designing book covers for 30 years. Design is her passion and she loves all aspects including fashion, architecture and typography. One More Chapter is the perfect opportunity to design covers for all genres and with the best people in the business.

Helen Williams

Editor

Helen Williams is an Editor at One More Chapter, and has been working in the publishing industry for over 20 years. She began her career in non-fiction at Piatkus Books, and then moved to Little, Brown, followed by Harlequin, and has spent the last 12 years freelancing for HarperCollins, working on every genre of fiction. Now her children are teenagers, she is ready to move back to in-house publishing, and is thrilled to be joining the dynamic One More Chapter team, and work with authors right from concept through to publication. She is looking for fiction that captures the zeitgeist, has a wonderful twist or a unique narrative perspective.

Rosie Best

Editor

Rosie is an Editor at One More Chapter. She began her career in academic publishing and has worked as a Project Editor at a UK University, as well as an Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. Rosie reads widely but is especially drawn to fantasy, thrillers and cosy crime. She loves a fast-paced story with an unexpected twist and is always looking out for new fiction that taps into – or experiments with – current trends. In her spare time, you can find Rosie out running while listening to a podcast (she’s always looking for new recommendations!), sketching, or testing out a new recipe in the kitchen.

Octavia Carr

Head of Digital Marketing

Octavia has been working at Bookouture since 2021 as part of the digital marketing team, combining a lifelong passion for books with her experience in performance-led marketing. During her time at Bookouture, Octavia planned and delivered data-driven digital campaigns for bestselling authors including Frieda McFadden, Daniel Hurst and K.L. Slater, driving audience growth, discoverability and commercial success.

Octavia grew up on a farm in Cumbria and, prior to working in publishing, spent four and a half years as an Account Manager at London advertising agency BBH. During her time at Bookouture, Octavia moved to Edinburgh with her husband and their spaniel, Pippin, where they now spend their weekends getting out into the hills or onto the water with their paddleboard.

Chloe Cummings

Senior Marketing Executive

Chloe is our Senior Marketing Executive at One More Chapter and she loves being able to combine her passions for books and marketing. This is Chloe’s first role in publishing. She received a Book Marketing Society award for her campaign on Laurie Gilmore’s The Pumpkin Spice Cafe. Chloe loves all books especially fiction, her favourite authors are Jessa Hastings, Hannah Grace and Sarah J. Mass. When she’s not obsessing over books, she can be found re-watching Gossip Girl for the 100th time or listening to Taylor Swift.

Kara Daniel

Managing Editorial Assistant

Kara has joined One More Chapter as their new managing editorial assistant. She has recently completed a Master’s in Publishing course at Kingston University and is ready to start her first full-time role in the industry. While studying, she gained publishing experience by interning with Académie du Vin Library and RightsZone, and before switching industries, she worked as a bid coordinator for engineering consulting firms. Kara enjoys reading (and watching) romances, including contemporary, historical and fantasy, but will also step out into other genres depending on her mood. You can usually find her listening to an audiobook while exploring London, going paddleboarding or taking her dog, Stark, for long walks in the park.

Sofia Salazar Studer

Editorial Assistant

Sofia is the Editorial Assistant at One More Chapter. She started her publishing journey at Mills & Boon after completing a degree in English & Creative Writing. Sofia loves reading widely but will generally gravitate towards romances or fantasy. In her spare time, Sofia is a dancer, a freelance photographer (yes, she can take your headshots), and a beginner sewist (no, she can’t hem your jeans). She also consumes potentially unhealthy amounts of fanfiction daily, loves K-Pop/K-Dramas/BLs, has a current obsession with All For The Game, and believes Wangxian invented love.

Grace Edwards

Marketing & Publicity Assistant

Grace is the Marketing & Publicity Assistant at One More Chapter. This is her first role within the publishing industry but she had previously completed internships with Future House Publishing and Linen Press, as well as being a Waterstones bookseller. Since graduating with her English degree from the University of Exeter, Grace also volunteered with the Guildford Book Festival and wrote for The Publishing Post.

Grace is also a Social Media Content Creator across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube (@bookswithgray) where she posts lifestyle and book-dedicated content. In her first year of content creation, she built a total audience of over 135,000 followers across her platforms. When she isn’t lost in a fantasy book, Grace can be found either cosying up with a video game, crocheting or listening to music.