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SfEP Glasgow Directory
The Glasgow group of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders was started in September 2003 and now has around twenty members, most but not all in the Glasgow area. We are all members (or associates) of the SfEP, and this page contains a directory of some of our members’ services.
There is a broad spectrum of subject interests and specialisms in our group, including archaeology, astronomy, earth sciences, textiles, pharmacology and music, to name only a few. The group represents an equally wide range of experience in working for different types of clients, from public sector agencies, small businesses and other non-publishers, to mainstream publishing houses. Clients looking for freelance editorial or proofreading services will almost certainly find someone among us who can provide the expertise they need.
Click on any of the links to go straight to a Glasgow member’s listing, or page down to browse through the directory:
- Stuart Allan
- Mary Brailey
- Margaret Christie
- Belinda Cunnison
- Mandy Macdonald
- Alan Macfarlane
- Susan Milligan
Stuart Allan – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Business name: Allan Editorial
Phone: 0131 620 2356
Web address: Allan Editorial
My copy-editing, proofreading and project-management services are based on in-house experience and industry-accredited training.
I have an MA in English literature and a postgraduate diploma in publishing; I gained my copy-editing training from the Publishing Training Centre and the SfEP. Nine years’ in-house experience in editorial and production roles at Queen’s University Belfast, Blackwell Publishing and Edinburgh Business School. I have edited books, theses, plays, journal articles and e-learning courses. Experience of working with non-native speakers of English and both hard-copy and on-screen editing (Word, Dreamweaver, XMLSpy).
My main subject interests are literature, history, business education and sport (particularly football) but also general non-fiction. Current clients include Hodder Gibson, Mainstream Publishing and Wiley-Blackwell.
Mary Brailey – email
SfEP category: Advanced
Business name: The Word Shop
Address: Ballagan Cottage, Strathblane, GLASGOW G63 9AE
Phone: 01360 771613; mobile: 07967 811318;
fax: 01360 770540 (requires notice please)
Web address: the-word-shop.co.uk
My job as a professional ‘wordsmith’ is to help you to get your message across by producing web content and written materials that are clear, focused, error-free and suitable for the intended audience. Most of my customers are public sector agencies, voluntary organizations, small businesses, private individuals and social policy publishers.
My experience is mainly in the areas of social work, housing, and equality. I also work on environmental and education subjects and have a growing knowledge of gardening and wildlife topics. I can take on any other general subjects, or specialist documents aimed at a non-technical audience. I do copy-writing, editing and proofreading (on hard copy or on electronic files). I can provide access to graphic design, web design and web-hosting services through links with associates.
I have been providing editorial services since 2001, following a classics education and a career in local government, the voluntary sector and universities. I am an ordinary member of the SfEP and received my editorial training from the SfEP, the Publishing Training Centre and Glasgow University.
Margaret Christie – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Business Name: Margaret Christie
Address: 1 Shandon Street, EDINBURGH EH11 1QH
Phone: 0131 346 0378
I am a music graduate with over 20 years’ experience as a publishing freelance (proofreading, copy-editing and indexing). I would particularly welcome more work involving music notation; I am active in traditional and classical music. Much of my work has been on academic books, covering most humanities subjects. I am an ordinary member of the SfEP and a Registered Indexer of the Society of Indexers. I find combining proofreading and indexing particularly effective.
Belinda Cunnison – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Business Name: Belinda Cunnison
Address: 7/1 South Sloan Street, EDINBURGH EH6 8SS
Phone: 0131 467 4237; mobile: 07766 966421
I perform copy-editing (including on-screen work) and proofreading of books, multi-author books, articles and law reports. I have a BA in English/Development Studies and have been freelance since 2000, previously having responsibility for in-house publications. I am an ordinary member of the SfEP.
Recent training includes On-screen Editing (SfEP) 2004 and 2001, Copy-editing (Scottish Publishers’ Association) 2000.
My subjects are biography/autobiography/memoirs, economics, geography (development studies), law (law reports), but any economic, political or historical material is of interest. I usually work within an academic context. I have worked both with editors and writers, and frequently on work by non-native speakers of English. Available all year.
Recent clients include Edward Elgar Publishing, ESRC at University of Sheffield, Jordan Publishing, Smith Bernal (Wordwave).
Mandy Macdonald – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Business name: Amanda Macdonald Research and Editorial
Consultancy
Address: 54 Duthie Terrace, ABERDEEN AB10 7PR
Phone: 01224 326143; mobile: 07743 466186;
fax: 01224 326143
I combine editorial, writing and translating work (on most humanities subjects) with small research projects (mostly but not exclusively on equalities, international development, and human rights) and conference reporting. My clients include UN, European and other multilateral agencies, publishers, voluntary organizations, and university-based research programmes.
I translate from Spanish and French to English, and copy-edit/proofread in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Latin. I also work with music notation.
I am happy working on both screen (PC, Windows XP; Microsoft Office; printing, photocopying and scanning facilities) and hard copy.
My educational background is in classics (MA, Cambridge) and music (LRCM in harpsichord; Diploma, Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology). I started work as a freelance copy-editor and proofreader at Cambridge University Press c.1975. After some years of in-house experience as a publications officer and editor in the voluntary sector and 18 months as a translator in Cuba, I have been a full-time freelancer since 1987.
I am an ordinary member of the SfEP and have completed SfEP training courses in proofreading, on-screen editing and negotiation techniques.
Alan Macfarlane – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Address: 15 Westbourne Crescent, Bearsden, GLASGOW G61 4HB
Phone: 0141 942 6338
I am an ordinary member of the SfEP offering a proofreading service and I come from a background of 30 years’ business experience, of which 24 have been in the shipping and offshore oil industries, largely in ship management operations and personnel management, following a degree in geography and economic history.
Specialist areas are geography, travel, maritime affairs and personnel management.
Susan Milligan – email
SfEP category: Advanced
Address: 39 Cecil Street (3/1), GLASGOW G12 8RN
Phone: 0141 334 2807
I am a freelance copy-editor, proofreader and writer, specializing in editing non-fiction and academic books in the humanities and history, especially Scottish history, but am willing to tackle a wide variety of non-technical and non-scientific subjects. I have written four books on local history and other Scottish subjects, most recently a history of the Merchants House of Glasgow. My work, increasingly, is on screen, editing in Word.
I have an Honours MA in Greek and Hebrew and a PhD in Greek. My knowledge of Latin, French and German are often useful in my editing work. Other academic interests include philosophy, theology, archaeology and ancient history. My publishing training has been with the Publishing Training Centre (Basic Editing, pass with distinction), the SfEP and the Scottish Publishers’ Association (several one-day courses). I am an advanced member of the SfEP, with a variety of experience in editing and proofreading gained over the past five years.
I have experience in handling multi-author works for academic publishers, liaising with academic editors and authors, and seeing a project through from copy-editing to final proofs.
Hazel Mills – email
SfEP category: Advanced
Address: 19 Kirklee Road, GLASGOW G12 0RQ
Phone: 0141 339 8206
I am a freelance copy-editor and proofreader specializing in non-fiction and reference works, particularly in the fields of arts and social sciences.
I have an MA in French Language and Literature and am a qualified social worker.
I have worked in publishing since 1991 and am an advanced member of the SfEP, working on hard copy or on screen using Word.
Particular areas of interest and experience include biography, quotations, social work, human rights, archaeology, conservation, contemporary art, ceramics and textiles.
Recent clients include Oxford University Press, HarperCollins and Heriot-Watt University.
Sue Moody – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Business name: Total Publishing Solutions Ltd
Address: Wellbrae House, Wellbrae, FALKLAND KY15 7AY
Phone: 01337 857097; mobile: 07855 955517
Web address: totalpublishingsolutions.co.uk
I offer editorial and publishing consultancy, copy-editing, copywriting, on-screen editing, project management, research, rewriting and writing in my subject specialisms of art history, design, education (general and primary), history (general and medieval) and music.
I have been freelance since 2004 and am an ordinary member of the SfEP. Recent experience and training include Head of Publishing, Learning and Teaching Scotland 2000–2003; Head of Publishing Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum 1992–2000; Editing for the Web (SfEP) 2003, MA Medieval History, PGCE Primary Education.
Lawrence Osborn – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Address: 1/3, 17 Apsley Street, GLASGOW G11 7ST
Phone: 0141 579 5948
I am an ordinary member of the SfEP and offer copy-editing, on-screen editing and proofreading in a variety of media including books, CD-ROMs, encyclopaedias, journals and online materials. I have a strong academic background spanning the physical sciences and theology. In addition to working on general fiction and non-fiction, I specialize in astronomy, physics, cultural studies, religious studies, theology and philosophy.
Recent clients include Berg Publishers, Birlinn, Hodder Gibson, Lion Hudson, Oxford University Press and SCM-Canterbury Press.
Stephanie Pickering – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Address: 95 Spottiswoode Street, EDINBURGH EH9 1BZ
Phone: 0131 447 9690; fax: 0131 447 9690
Qualifications: BA (Hons, II(i)) French and European Literature (University of Warwick); MA Librarianship (University of Sheffield); NUJ training course in Quark; SfEP training courses in on-screen editing, handling illustrations, proofreading and copy-editing, medical editing and grammar. Experienced with both Mac and PC.
I have worked in house for Routledge & Kegan Paul, HMSO and Larousse, and been a freelance copy-editor, indexer and proofreader since 1993. Subjects include medicine, reference books, Scottish history, architecture and biography. Clients include Oxford University Press, Radcliffe Medical Press, Churchill Livingstone, Chambers/Harrap, King’s Fund, Bloomsbury, HMSO/Stationery Office, Scottish National Heritage, Blackwell Science, Larousse, Polygon, National Museums of Scotland, Scottish Prison Service, Reader’s Digest.
Recent work: From July 1998 to November 2003 I was a copy-editor on the recently published 60 volume Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press and British Academy). Much of my other recent freelance work has been for Elsevier Science, mostly on-screen copy-editing medical books. I have also recently edited a historical novel, copy-edited and indexed a book on street football in Orkney, copy-edited a thesis on nursing elderly people with strokes, and indexed a book on nineteenth-century photographs of China.
Merle Read – email
SfEP category: Advanced
Address: GLASGOW G20
Mobile: 0775 115 6297; fax: 0870 133 9436
Web address: read-edit.co.uk
I provide editorial services to publishers and authors of academic, general reference, and other non-fiction material. With a dozen years’ professional experience as an editor I am sensitive to the needs of both author and publisher. I have copy-edited and proofread books and articles on a demanding range of subjects, from postdoctoral scientific research to backpackers’ travel guides, often dealing directly with the author; specialist areas include history and Russian. I have also created and edited web pages, and am an adept web researcher.
I am an advanced member of the SfEP and a qualified librarian. Regular clients include major academic publishers and smaller specialist presses.
Enquiries as to rates and availability are welcome and are treated with discretion.
Abi Saffrey – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Address: 11 Crown Gardens, Glasgow G12 9HL
Phone: 0141 334 0803 (eves/weekends)
Mobile: 0790 352 3165
Web address: http://abirobertsoneditorial.googlepages.com
I offer freelance copy-editing (on paper and on screen) and proofreading services, with the following specialisms: travel, sociology, linguistics, education, economics and politics. I have undertaken formal copy-editing, proofreading and grammar training through the SfEP.
Following a BA (Hons) in Languages and Linguistics, I began my editorial career with a financial information company, then moved to Continuum (working on linguistics and education titles). In 2003 I joined D&B's Country Risk Services publications team, where I copy-edited complex economic and political material, often from authors who had English as a second (in some cases third) language.
I am currently Publishing Manager at Learning and Teaching Scotland. This role consists of editorial and translation project management, as well as the copy-editing and proofreading of website text, newsletters and teacher/student support materials. I am confident and proficient in Microsoft Word, and have experience of working with online content management software.
David A. Tait – email
SfEP category: Ordinary
Business name: Giffnock Editorial Services
Address: 49 Merryvale Avenue, Giffnock, GLASGOW G46 6DD
Phone: 0141 637 9603; mobile: 07957 552538
Web address: Giffnock Editorial Services
Resulting from 34 years of experience as a university academic, my editing/proofreading work is mainly for academic publications (journals, books and thesis/dissertation preparation). I have edited and compiled conference proceedings and company newsletters, and have carried out work for an amateur youth theatre. I maintain the index for a scientific journal. I have long experience of working with authors whose first language is other than English.
Formal training was through PTC distance learning proofreading course, several one-day SfEP courses in proofreading and editing, and conference sessions. My project management skills were acquired through 11 years of work as section editor and then Editor-in-Chief of an international scientific journal. I am an ordinary member of the SfEP.
Most of my recent work has been on-screen. My specialist subjects are earth sciences (geography, geomatics, GIS, surveying, remote sensing) and engineering.
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