Andrew Brassleay

Andrew Brassleay – Editor

Copy-editor and proofreader with over 20 years in the trade on newspapers, magazines, books and websites.

Overview

With over 20 years of experience across national newspapers, magazines, and the publishing industry, I provide copy-editing and proofreading services for authors, publishers and corporate clients.

Subject areas I've covered across my career include: celebrity; charity; current affairs; education; fashion; film; food; gaming; health; leadership and management; literature; military history; news; property; puzzles; sport; theatre; travel; television.

A Professional member of the CIEP, I have copy-edited and/or proofread titles for major publishers, including Penguin Michael Joseph, Canelo, Hera Books, Biteback and Wild Things Publishing, editing the work of high-profile authors such as Dawn French, Peter Oborne and Ragnar Jónasson.

I've sub-edited at the highest levels of the UK newspaper media, with freelance experience at The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Independent, Metro, The i, The Observer and The Times.

Additionally, I've sub-edited in a freelance capacity for magazines such as Best, National Geographic, Stylist, Tatler and The Big Issue.

Please see below for books I've either worked on as either a copy-editor or proofreader. I'm adaptable, whether you just want me to look out for spelling and grammar, or interrogate the text with an opinionated edit.

Services
Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction
Non-Fiction
Education & Reference History
Languages
English (UK)

Work experience

Self-employed

Jun, 2015 — Present
Shift, freelance and casual work for newspapers, magazines, books and websites. Sub-editing, digital editing, feature writing, page design and blogging.

Portfolio

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Dawn French

Penguin Books Limited

*AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW - THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER DAWN FRENCH*ETTA'S FOUND THE CURE FOR OLD AGE. BUT HER FAMILY WON'T LIKE IT . . . Etta is sixty-eight years... read more
Proofreading
Copy Editing
Lady Insurrectionists

Judy Cox

Verso Books

The women who led Britain’s first mass democratic movement – decades before the Suffragettes.Lady Insurrectionists tells the story of the iconoclastic women who helped ignite Chartism, the lar... read more
Copy Editing
What’s Stopping You?

Timothy Armoo

Penguin Books Limited

**THE INSTANT NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**What’s stopping you from achieving the success you’ve always wanted?From growing up in a South London council estate to selling his first busine... read more
Proofreading
The Body in the Bath

Ragnar Jónasson

St. Martin's Publishing Group

From the author of The Mysterious Case of The Missing Crime Writer comes the next mystery featuring detective Helgi Reykdal.When Bergþóra Úlfsdóttir, Helgi’s ex-girlfriend, is found dead in he... read more
Copy Editing
Notes on Infinity

Austin Taylor

Cengage Gale

"A singular, extraordinary debut about Zoe and Jack, Harvard students who find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they've discovered the cure f... read more
Proofreading
Into the Wild

Lucy Shepherd

Random House

Pre-order Lucy Shepherd’s story of her journey to become an explorer, her world-first expedition across the Amazon’s Kanuku Mountains and her mission to share the wild places of our world.‘Not... read more
Proofreading
Full Circle

Peter Oborne

Elliott & Thompson, Limited

Oborne and Heller trace the origins of cricket as a commercial entertainment through its evolution to a form of moral improvement and tool of empire, and argue that cricket today - dominated b... read more
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