Editorial qualifications
All authors deserve to work with an editor who knows what they’re doing. I’m professionally trained and I’m always brushing up on my skills. Here’s a full list of my qualifications, as well as some of the clients I’ve worked with.
Qualifications
- Copyediting 2: Headway (CIEP, 2021)
- Essential Proofreading (The Publishing Training Centre, 2018)
- Introduction to Fiction Editing (SfEP, 2017)
- Copyediting 1: Introduction (SfEP, 2017)
- Proofreading 1: Introduction (SfEP, 2017)
- BA (Hons) English and Creative Writing (2016)
Professional development
- Editing Sex and Intimacy (Editorial Freelancers Association)
- Guiding Principles for Developmental Editing (Liminal Pages)
- Trauma-Informed Editing (FOLD Academy)
- Editing Memoir (Tanya Gold’s Courses for Editors)
- Comma Press virtual publishing conference 2021
- Book Formatting Using Word Styles (Editors Canada)
- CIEP virtual annual conference 2020
- Tolkien symposium on fantasy literature 2020
- Inclusive Language Series (ACES: The Society for Editing)
- Editing for Young Readers (ACES: The Society for Editing)
- Comics and Graphic Novel Conventions for Proofreaders (Editorial Freelancers Association)
Clients
I love working with authors one-on-one, and regularly work with self-publishing authors and writers who plan to submit traditionally. I’ve also worked with lots of publishing houses over the years, including:
- Bedford Square Publishers
- Badger Learning
- Storm Publishing
- Chicken House Books (imprint of Scholastic)
- Ebury (imprint of Penguin Random House)
- HarperCollins
- Writers & Artists (platform for writers run by Bloomsbury)
- Head of Zeus
- Canelo
- Hashtag Press
- Black Library (publishing division of Games Workshop)
- Bookouture (imprint of Hachette UK)
- Thread Books (imprint of Hachette UK)