- Professional affiliations, qualifications, and experience
- 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)
- Member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)
- Associate member of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA)
- Twelve 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 500 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
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- CIEP conference (online) – 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025. Each of these involves attendance at several important CPD workshops and learning sessions
- Editing for Fantasy Worldbuilding at Sentence Level (CIEP webinar) – 2026
- Investigating crime, mystery and thriller editing (CIEP webinar) – 2026
- The Art of the Query (CIEP webinar) – 2026
- 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 Copyediting 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 four adorable little boys
