Teena Lyons biography
Teena Lyons spent ten years as a business, financial and consumer specialist on national newspapers and magazines before leaving Fleet Street in May 2006 to take up the challenge of becoming a ghostwriter.
Her first book, On Leadership, co-written with corporate guru Allan Leighton, became a business bestseller and its success led to many subsequent projects with well-known business people. The most recent book that Teena collaborated on was Common Sense Rules by Deborah Meaden of TV’s Dragons Den.
As well as straight, ‘how I made it’ style biographies, Teena also specialises in broader business analysis, looking at what it takes to run a successful business, from global corporations to entrepreneurial start-ups.
Follow Teena Lyons on Twitter @teenalyons
Links
- Teena Lyons's website: http://www.professionalghost.org
How I Found the Agency
My approach to finding an agent was very journalistic. After trawling through the Writer’s Market 2010, and highlighting all the agents that I thought might be relevant, I spent some time visiting the websites of all the agents on my shortlist. Andrew Lownie seemed particularly relevant to my areas of expertise, but my break-through came when I noticed that my former colleague Neil Simpson was a client. We had worked together for many years at the Mail On Sunday. Neil and I met, rather appropriately, at the British Library for a coffee and he very kindly let me bend his ear for sometime on his experiences and the value of working with this agency. When I met Andrew I immediately understood Neil’s enthusiasm and am now very excited to see what great projects will come out of this collaboration.
