Bio

Ruth Bullivant is an English writer, book coach and editor.

Born in Yorkshire, raised in Devon, she loves to travel widely and has spent a lifetime practicing law in London. She got nearly perfect at it before deciding to spend more time with words and writers.

She is the author of Blind Chance (published 2021). It’s a thriller that interprets the story of Oedipus for our time, is set in loads of interesting locations, and has its amusing moments, although maybe she lost you at ‘Oedipus’.

Ruth has supported over seventy writers in their book aspirations since she started coaching in 2020. These are some of the books her clients have published.

Her professional CV is here.

As a writer herself, Ruth has been short-listed in the UK’s Farnham Festival of Writing and in the Segora Short Story Competition. Her published books are here.

Backstory

Ruth attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and read Classics.

That’s a posh way of saying, she got a degree after four years of immersing herself up to the eyeballs in Greek, Latin and Ancient History.

She decided it might be a good idea to earn a living after spending all those summers in Greece and Italy, so she spent a perfectly miserable time qualifying as a solicitor.

Working as a banking lawyer in London proved to be happier, so much so that she spent thirty-five years doing it before the excitement really got too much and she turned to writing, book coaching and editing full-time.

After two years spent training in coaching fiction (2020), and nonfiction (2021), with practical exams on actual manuscripts, and real writers’ dreams on which to tread softly, Author Accelerator ™ awarded Ruth her two certifications and launched her on the most rewarding career of her life.

After Motherhood, of course. (Oops. Just remembered to say that in time.)