Caroline Petherick

Testimonials

Caroline was a joy to work with on our projects. She immediately answered our cry for help and couldn’t have been more helpful throughout our time of working with her. We found Caroline a fast, accurate and efficient editor with a keen eye for attention to detail who could work to extremely tight deadlines, always delivering when she said she would. Caroline has meticulous editing and proofreading skills and is willing to learn and research the subject matter, checking facts and questioning material that needs clarity and providing suggestions based upon her expertise. All of her suggestions were well thought out and pertinent. We would have no hesitation in using Caroline for our future projects. 

Barbara Jones, Curator of Maritime History and Education, Lloyd’s Register

We have been working with Caroline for several years and across a broad range of projects and subjects. It is a pleasure to work with her - she is efficient, accurate, knowledgeable, diplomatic and very understanding. She handles authors beautifully, with their own expectations and foibles, and we have received compliments from several who have praised her work, her understanding and the improvements she has brought to their manuscript. I have worked with editors for 40 years and I can say wholeheartedly and with objectivity that Caroline is one of the very best. I am constantly amazed by her knowledge and skills and appreciate her sense of humour - it all helps the editing flow more smoothly! 

Dr Keith Whittles, Whittles Publishing

Caroline, I totally trust your excellent work! Cheers, Herbert. 

Dr Herbert Puchta, Professor of English at the Teacher Training University in Austria

People often ask me what an editor does and if they need one for their book. My answer is that to publish a book without an editor would be total madness. Caroline not only corrects my grammar and punctuation, but she proof reads my work and checks the consistency of facts – names, places, people, dates. It would be embarrassing to have to reveal how many errors she finds, but I don’t think I am alone amongst other authors. We all need a second pair of eyes. 
 

Matthew Woodward, author of Trans-Siberian Adventures and A Bridge Even Further.

[In response to you asking me what it was about the book that led me to compliment the publisher on its editing.] Autobiographical authors rarely achieve the narrative flow that this book has achieved without professional editing. The prose is sharp and well placed to support the narrative. There is little if any unnecessary material. Nothing is unnecessarily repeated. I'm not an editor (although editing government reports prepared by my team was part of my job before I retired) but do occasionally review papers and books for the AAMH Newsletter and our journal The Great Circle, and I occasionally receive manuscripts from hopeful authors on maritime history ... To be useful for maritime historians, autobiographies of the quality of In The Treacle Mine are rare. In my opinion, the book has achieved the correct balance between being a memoir for a general audience and being a useful source of historical information. 

Peter Ridgway, Newsletter and Media Editor,
Australian Association for Maritime History