​​Professional affiliation and experience

  • Advanced Professional Member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP)
  • Member of AIPP, Association of Independent Publishing Professionals
  • Member of ACES (The Society for Editing)
  • Associate Member of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA)
  • Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)
  • Over 25 years of publishing experience, including in-house roles with Williams & Wilkins and SAGE Publishing 
  • Proofread or copyedited 600+ 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
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​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)
  • How to Write a Crime Novel: The Online Masterclass (The Writers Academy | Penguin Random House)
  • 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)
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​​Awards, nominations and speaking engagements

  • 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 
  • Finalist: UK Blog Awards, 2018
  • Finalist: Content Marketing Awards, 2019 (Podcast of the Year; Blog of the Year)
  • Winner of 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, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Speaker and panelist: Society for Editors and Proofreaders Conference, Toronto, 2018
  • Panelist: Fiction Editing, SfEP Norfolk Group, Norwich, 2018 
  • Keynote speaker: Editorial Freelancers Association, Chicago, 2019
  • ​Joint winner: Unsung Heroes of Publishing, 2017
  • BA (Hons) Politics​

Fancy working with me?

If you'd like to discuss a line editing, copyediting or proofreading project, get in touch so we can have a chat.​