​​Professional affiliation and experience

  • Advanced Professional Member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP)
  • Author Member of ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors
  • Over 25 years of publishing experience, including in-house roles with Williams & Wilkins and SAGE Publishing 
  • Proofread or copyedited over 550 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

  • Basic Proofreading – distinction awarded (Publishing Training Centre)
  • Editing Digital Products (Publishing Training Centre)
  • Fiction Editing (Copyediting masterclass)
  • Fiction Editing (SfEP conference workshop)
  • Indexing for Proofreaders (Society of Indexers)
  • Macros for Editors (SfEP conference workshop)
  • Sense and Sensitivity: Polishing Grammar while Preserving the Author's Voice (SfEP conference workshop)
  • Style Sheets (SfEP conference workshop)

​​Awards, nominations and speaking engagements

  • Nominated for 2017 Judith Butcher Award​ (SfEP)
  • Nominated for 2015 Judith Butcher Award​ (SfEP)
  • Nominated for 2017 Karen Virag Award (Editors Canada)
  • Speaker: Society for Editors and Proofreaders Conferences 2016 and 2017
  • Speaker: Communication Central (forthcoming, 2018)
  • Joint winner: Unsung Heroes of Publishing 2017
  • BA (Hons) Politics​

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