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About me

Experience

I studied Music and Ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway (University of London) and then fell into editing by accident when I got my first job as an editorial assistant for a small music publisher.

 

That led to eight years working in-house for leading educational publishers such as Pearson and Oxford University Press. This gave me a solid grounding in a wide range of editorial skills, from proofreading and copyediting through to development editing and project management, with a little bit of commissioning work thrown in too.

 

I went freelance in 2017. Now I still edit educational resources but also take on more general nonfiction, for both traditional publishers and indie authors.

 

I’m a Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), and adhere to their code of practice.

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Training

Professional development is important to me. Courses that I’ve completed to build on my in-house experience include:

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  • CIEP’s Copyediting Progress

  • CIEP’s Proofreading Progress

  • EFA’s Developmental Editing of Nonfiction

  • CIEP’s Getting to Grips with Grammar and Punctuation

  • CIEP's Efficient Editing: Strategies and Tactics

  • CIEP's Word for Practical Editing

Interests

I moonlight as a writer. I’ve co-authored four GCSE Religious Studies revision guides for Oxford University Press, written various articles for Music Teacher magazine, and have a couple of young adult novels on the backburner. (I’ve yet to complete a whole book though and have the utmost respect for anyone who has!)

 

I love working with words and feel privileged to be able to do this for a living.

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I live in the Chilterns with my partner and our dog, where we spend our time going for walks, playing board games, and very occasionally performing as the folk duo Shivelight.

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Find me on Twitter here or LinkedIn here

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