Managing Director

With a background in senior sales and marketing roles across major publishing houses, such as Random House and Murdoch Books, Amanda has built a career spanning trade publishing, international rights, and business development. Between 2014 and 2022, Amanda focused on consulting and business management, while also raising her son. In 2022, she returned to the publishing sector in a more structured capacity, working across several part-time and consulting roles, including with Custom Publishing Solutions, managing commercial operations, and Echo Publishing supporting the Managing Director on the sales and marketing side of the business. Amanda transitioned to Managing Director for Echo Publishing in July 2025. 

Publisher

Diana began her publishing career as an editor, working at Rigby Publishers in Adelaide, Angus & Robertson and McGraw-Hill in Sydney, and Time-Life Books in London. From 1999 to 2011 she worked as editorial director and then publisher at Murdoch Books. Following a brief stint as a freelance publishing consultant, she rejoined Murdoch Books (now part of Allen and Unwin) in 2013 as a publisher. In 2017 she returned to freelance project management and consultancy work, before joining Echo Publishing in early 2022.

Operations Executive & Editorial Assistant

Cherie is someone who loves to get the details just right. She holds a Master of Publishing from USYD and is a published poet. She worked as publishing assistant at Sydney University Press, and publishing assistant and then production and operations coordinator at Welbeck ANZ, before joining Echo in early 2023. Cherie has since been training as an editor and now handles production and systems administration. When she isn’t reading, she enjoys boardgames and trivia game shows.

Editor

Sam has been in the book publishing industry for over 20 years as an editor, production manager, freelance editor and commissioning editor. She has worked at Hodder Headline (now Hachette), Horwitz Martin, McGraw Hill and Finch Publishing, before becoming a co-founder of Bad Apple Press in 2018 to 2023. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Writing and is the author of two books of her own, as well as numerous articles published in journals and newspapers including the Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘Good Weekend’ magazine. She lives on a five-acre property in north-west Sydney, where she has four horses, two dogs, and one very patient husband.

Senior Editor

Emma is an experienced editor with over 25 years in the publishing industry. Her first roles were in educational and legal publishing before moving into trade publishing in the mid-2000s. She has worked inhouse as a project editor, development editor and commissioning editor, and also as a freelance editor and packager. Over the years she has held positions at McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Lawbook, Murdoch Books and, most recently, NewSouth Publishing before joining Echo in late 2025. 

Publicist

Cath is an experienced arts and entertainment communications specialist. She started out in television at Sky TV and Time Warner in the UK, then moved to Australia in 2014 where she has worked across arts festivals, theatre, film and immersive tech. Cath is an avid news reader, and is often found leafing through newspapers (who still does that?!), trawling news sites and getting lost in the New York Times app. She gets upset when she loses her Wordle streak. Cath loves to find the story within the story, so working with authors and their books is absolute heaven. She is currently covering Emily Banyard’s maternity leave. 

Marketing Coordinator & Sales Administrator

Maeve joined Echo in 2025, bringing experience in arts and publishing communications. She has previously worked for Zeitgeist Agency and Sydney Writers’ Festival as Associate Publicist. She holds a Bachelor of Media (Communications and Journalism) with a major in Art Theory from UNSW and is passionate about championing books and authors through thoughtful communications and marketing.  

Publicity Manager

Emily is an experienced marketing, publicity and digital communications specialist with a history of working in trade publishing and the literature sector in the UK and Australia. Emily cut her teeth as a publicist at Simon & Schuster UK, Random House UK and Michael O'Mara Books before branching out to working with literature festivals, books fairs, prizes, charities and arts organisations at literary PR agency FMcM. Before joining Echo in 2021, she was marketing and communications manager at the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). She is passionate about working directly with authors and excited to watch the Echo list grow.