Sophie is a freelance editor and writer/ waitress. After 4 years of university, gaining a BA in Creative Writing and a MA in Publishing, Sophie decided to start freelancing as a writer/ editor alongside her job in hospitality, which lead her to starting her business Sophie's Proof, which offers proofreading and editing services to manuscripts. The Way Back has been a work in progress since Sophie was 16. After working with some amazing authors in her business, Sophie decided it was time to publish her own work. As a writer, Sophie was expecting to receive rejection but after only a few responses and radio silence from most of her submissions (which were a lot), she decided to self publish. The thought of The Way Back being stuck in a 'sludge' pile of unread manuscripts forever not only haunted her but she knew Gracie wouldn't stand for that, so neither should she. A scary decision, but it was time to get it out into the world after all this time. As a writer, Sophie likes to experiment with structure and play around with style to create something different. In the Way Back, structure plays a very big part in the story in revealing major plots and twists throughout. This is something Sophie hopes she can continue in the future with other work, so any support you can give would be appreciated in lifting her debut book off the ground.