The director
Sean Doyle is the director of Lynk. He is the author of several publications, including Beyond Snake Mountain, a travel narrative about India; and Barbed Wire and Lobster Bisque, the biography of a Czech post-war immigrant to Australia.
After completing an Honours degree in English Literature at Sydney University in 1984, Sean spent the next few years travelling and living overseas – mainly in Asia, but also in the Americas and Europe. During this time he taught English in Barcelona and Copenhagen. He then returned to Australia, settled down, and took a job as a journalist. Some years later, in 1997, Sean entered publishing.
He worked as an in-house editor with several companies in Sydney for seven years, project-managing over 70 books through the entire editorial production process. He has extensive experience with manuscript assessment, development and editing, and is equally comfortable working with both fiction and non-fiction, across a wide range of genres. His association with Lynk dates back to 1998, when he started doing assessments for the then-director, Liat Kirby.
Sean is a registered mentor with the NSW Writers’ Centre in Sydney, and is a member of the NSW Society of Editors.
Sean also presents one and two-day workshops on Writing and Editing, which often lead to participants seeking some follow-up assistance with their manuscripts. This process usually starts with an assessment of their work, following which Sean may develop a mentoring relationship, working closely with the author on fine-tuning the text, and giving ongoing feedback and advice as the work rises to a professional standard. He lives in Northern NSW, where he loves to bodysurf and cook aspirational curries