Leodora Darlington – Commissioning Editor at Canelo

Leodora Darlington is a commissioning editor at Canelo with a history of working on bestselling commercial fiction. In the past, she has worked with number-one-bestselling authors such as Angela Marsons and has worked on chart-topping books such as Samantha Hayes’ Date Night and Shalini Boland’s The Wife. One of her first commissions was The Dancing Girls by M.M. Chouinard, which went on to be an Amazon charts, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller. She is currently leading Canelo’s expansion into psychological suspense and book club fiction. She is also the founder of Owned Voices, an organisation with the aim of nurturing the talent of writers from under-represented backgrounds.