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
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)
Awards, nominations and speaking engagements
Panelist: Fiction Editing, 2018 (SfEP: Norfolk)
Shortlisted author for Noirwich Crime Writing Festival flash fiction competition, 2018
Shortlisted author for Bookseller/FutureBook Future Fiction short-story competition, 2018
Finalist: UK Blog Awards, 2018
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
Speaker and panelist: Society for Editors and Proofreaders Conference, Toronto, 2018
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.
