Skills: Americanizing/Anglicizing, copy-editing, copywriting, indexing, on-screen editing, project management, proofreading, rewriting, web page/site editing, writing
Media: books, company literature, illustrated books, multi-author books, online materials, travel guides
Equipment and software: computer(s): Mac; printer(s): laser (1200dpi); CD 700MB; scanner; word processing, typesetting and page layout, antivirus
Qualifications and awards: BA Theatre, Film & Television, MA Linguistics & Phonetics
Experience: Managing Editor, Oberon Books, 1998–99; Editor, Frances Lincoln Publishers, 1996–98; freelance since 1999
Recent training: Working for Non-publishers (SfEP) 2003, Web Editing and Proofreading (SfEP) 2003
Recent clients: going-there.com, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Full Moon Communications, Bridgewater Books, Ivy Press
Subjects: children's/teenage publishing (educational/informative), cinema/film, English language, fitness/health, food and drink, interior design, medicine (complementary/alternative), New Age/mind, body, spirit/divination, personal development, religious studies/theology, theatre, tourism/travel
Over ten yearsı experience of editing illustrated non-fiction books, specialising in food and cooking and Mind Body Spirit titles. I have also written for the web and non-publishers.