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About us Total Astronomy was founded by Simon and Jacqueline Mitton in 2002. Our business is providing writing, consultancy, editorial and public speaking services in the astronomical and related sciences. We specialise in writing about astronomy for the general public and children. Each of us has over 30 years' experience of communicating through the media and numerous successful publications. We understand the needs of publishers, and their editors. Our experience is backed up by commitment, enthusiasm and up-to-date knowledge of our subject. As experienced consultants on astronomy and media relations, we can provide all of the following services on demand: website content provision; podcasts; writing books on or about astronomy to a tight brief set by the publisher; editing, peer review, and fact checking of astronomy-related text; event management in Cambridge; monthly columnist for magazines; newspaper, tv, and radio interviews on any astronomical topic; prepartion of press release and marketing material and promotional for astronomical research institutions, observatories, and professionals. In all of these areas we work closely with our clients, we keep to budget, and we deliver on time. Our clients include international publishers of children's and trade books, academic presses publishing popular science and reference books, and magazines.
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Jacqueline Mitton is author, co-author or editor of over 25 books and has acted as an expert editorial consultant for numerous children's books and educational publishers. She has specialized in writing for children, dictionaries and reference books, and collaborating with busy researchers on astronomy books for non-specialists. She has a degree in Physics from Oxford University and a Cambridge University PhD. For 15 years she was the press spokesperson for the Royal Astronomical Society. During that time she wrote hundreds of press notices about astronomical research and made scores of appearances in the media. For seven years she edited the Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 
Simon Mitton has a degree in Physics from Oxford University and a Cambridge PhD. He began writing about science for magazines when he was an undergraduate. His magazine work led on to his writing three popular astronomy books, published by Faber and Faber. He also conceived and edited the ground-breaking Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy. He then pursued a successful career as a science publisher for many years and gained a reputation as an able and entertaining communicator. He now writes books, articles and reviews on modern astronomy and physics, and on the history of astronomy, including biography. He is the biographer of Fred Hoyle. If you are an editor in need of astronomy copy (news, features, interviews, regular column, op-ed) for a website, magazine, or quality newspaper, Simon Mitton can normally accept commissions at short notice, and is capable of writing to a tight brief and a demanding deadline. 