Our Advisors

On its journey, Fableration has benefited from the support and advice of a large number of individuals and organisations, including academics, writers and their support organisations, readers and reader-groups, publishers and the Web3 community. We thank all who have been involved for the role they have played.

Professor Samantha Rayner

Samantha is Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures, and Vice Dean Wellbeing at the Arts and Humanities Faculty, University College London. She teaches and writes on publishing and book related topics, with special interests in bookshops and booksellers, publishing archives and publishing paratexts, editors and editing, bibliotherapy, and academic publishing. She has also taught extensively on English Literature courses and has specialisms in Medieval and Arthurian texts.

Samantha enjoys collaborative and interdisciplinary project work, including knowledge transfer activities. She is co-Director of the Bookselling Research Network and co-Director of the Bloomsbury Chapter, a collaborative teaching and research initiative with the Institute of English Studies. She is also a Chair of the Penguin Books Researcher Network and a Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, as well as the General Editor for a series of publishing mini-monographs with Cambridge University Press.

Dr Miriam Johnson

Miriam’s professional career includes work as a second-hand bookseller, founder of The Istanbul Review, and in working with Scottish PEN and Scottish Book Trust, as well as developing an immersive literature project in Edinburgh in conjunction with The Bridge Awards and Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature (echoesofthecity.com). Her academic research blurs the lines between creative writing and publishing in digitally social settings. In her PhD at Brookes and in subsequent publications, she has written about the place where social media and the publishing industry come together. Including how these new outlets give rise to new types of authors, the role of community, and the issues of gender and power that hover just under the surface in both the traditional publishing industry and within the communities in digital settings. Her current research interests extend the role of the author by looking at performance of authorship in cross-platform digital spaces.

Dr Liz Monument

Liz has a PhD in creative writing. She is a professional editor and writing coach, and has published two novels of her own. She works as a freelance with national and international clients, including HarperCollins and Jericho Writers, as well as working hand-in-hand with selected literary agencies to accelerate the submission process for writers of talent. Liz is one of Fabel’s community contributors. Her role is to help develop the AI quality control process that will run over author submissions, and guide Fabel’s leaders through the publishing market.

Josephine Monger

Jo is a specialist in customer centricity, strategy development and assisting executive teams to better understand and enhance the customer experience within the organisation. Jo has held a number of executive and leadership roles in prominent Australian businesses and brings over 20 years of commercial experience. Her role is to guide the development of Fabel’s strategy and ensure the platform delivers the best possible customer experience.