Qualifications

• Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
• Partner Member of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)
• Member of the Association of Independent Publishing Professionals (AIPP)
• Member of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES)
• Associate member of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA)
• Ten years’+ experience of freelance proofreading and copyediting for large publishing houses (including Faber and Faber, Macmillan, Harper Collins and Black Library) and independent authors, now focusing on fiction editing
  • I have proofread, copyedited or structurally edited well in excess of 400 books or projects, including Children of Time (winner of the 2016 Arthur C Clarke award for best novel) and Dead Man’s Walk (by Pulitzer prize winner Larry McMurtry)

Training and CPD

• CIEP conference (online) – 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. Each of these involves attendance at several important CPD workshops and learning sessions
• SfEP (now the CIEP) conference – 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
• SfEP Fiction mini-conference 2019
• SfEP Fiction Editing Workshop – 2016
• SfEP Introduction to Fiction Editing – 2015/2016
• SfEP Copy-editing two – 2014
• SfEP Brush up your Grammar – 2014
• SfEP Introduction to Copy-editing – 2013
• Proofreading Today (Edit Train) – 2013 (Pass with Merit)
• SfEP Introduction to Proofreading – 2013

 Non-publishing background

• Retired solicitor with experience in criminal and family law – really useful for crime and police procedural novels!
• Freelance representative for international probate research company – April 2012 to September 2014
• Advocate with the Independent Panel for Special Education Advice – 1999-2004
• Voluntary support work with the National Childbirth Trust – 1995-2002
• Degree in Psychology; ‘A’ Levels in British Government & Politics, French, R.E., General Studies (I know, these were a very long time ago …)
• Mother of four grown-up children and grandmother to two adorable little boys