Professional affiliation and experience
I'm a proud member of several professional organizations whose values align with my editorial business ethos.
- Social Media Director: Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP); elected 2020
- Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
- Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)
- Member of ACES (The Society for Editing)
- 30 years of publishing experience, including in-house roles with Williams & Wilkins and SAGE Publishing
- Edited or proofread 650+ books for independent authors and publishing houses, including a Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad, and an anniversary facsimile edition of Dracula
Training and CPD
Even experienced editors need to invest in professional development to ensure their skills are current and their clients' needs are met. Below is a selection of the training courses I've taken.
- Essential Proofreading – distinction awarded (Publishing Training Centre)
- Editing Digital Products (Publishing Training Centre)
- Fiction Editing (Copyediting masterclass)
- Fiction Editing (CIEP conference workshop)
- How to Write a Crime Novel: The Online Masterclass (The Writers Academy | Penguin Random House)
- Indexing for Proofreaders (Society of Indexers)
- Macros for Editors (CIEP conference workshop)
- Sense and Sensitivity: Polishing Grammar while Preserving the Author's Voice (CIEP conference workshop)
- Style Sheets (CIEP conference workshop)
Awards, nominations and speaking engagements
I'm regularly invited to speak at international editing conferences, and have received industry-recognized awards for my teaching tools.
- Panelist: Meet the Editors – Editing Training Scheme (The Literary Consultancy in partnership with the Publishing Training Centre), 2020
- Speaker: CIEP conferences, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Keynote speaker: Editorial Freelancers Association, Chicago, 2019
- Finalist: Content Marketing Academy Awards, 2019 (Podcast of the Year)
- Winner: Content Marketing Academy Awards, 2019 (Blog of the Year)
- Finalist: UK Blog Awards, 2018
- Speaker and panelist: CIEP conference, Toronto, 2018
- Panelist: Fiction Editing, CIEP Norfolk Group, Norwich, 2018
- Winner: Judith Butcher Award (SfEP; now CIEP), 2017
- Joint winner: Unsung Heroes of Publishing, 2017
- Nominee: Karen Virag Award (Editors Canada), 2017
- Nominee: Judith Butcher Award (SfEP; now CIEP), 2015
My teaching materials: Books, courses, blog and podcast
I love to teach. My popular books and multimedia courses are aimed at beginner and developing writers and editors. My teaching ethos is grounded in logical frameworks that make learning accessible.
BOOKS
BOOKS
- Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers
- Editing Fiction at Sentence Level
- How to be Visible with Social Media (Business Skills for Editors 3)
- How to Brand Your Editing Business (Business Skills for Editors 4)
- How to Build an Editorial Blog (Business Skills for Editors 2)
- How to Develop a Pricing Strategy (Business Skills for Editors 6)
- How to do Content Marketing (Business Skills for Editors 1)
- How to Earn Passive Income (Business Skills for Editors 5)
- Making Sense of Point of View (Transform Your Fiction 1)
- Making Sense of Punctuation (Transform Your Fiction 2)
- Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business
- Omnibus: Editorial Business Planning & Marketing Plus
MULTIMEDIA COURSES
- 10 Ways to Get Editing Work Quickly
- 8-Step Blueprint for a Standout Home Page
- Blogging for Business Growth
- Branding for Business Growth
- Editor Website Essentials
- How to Write the Perfect Fiction Editorial Report
- Social Media for Business Growth
- Switching to Fiction
- To Visibility and Beyond
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Louise’s fiction writing
I write fiction too. Three of my short stories have made writing-competition shortlists.
- Living Fiction (ebook)
- Shortlisted author for Noirwich Crime Writing Festival flash fiction competition, 2018
- Shortlisted author for Bookseller/FutureBook Future Fiction short-story competition, 2018
- Shortlisted author for Crime Writers' Association's Margery Allingham short-story competition, 2019
