Overview
Previous experience includes commissioning higher education reference grammars, geography textbooks, law coursebooks and project managing textbooks with digital components. I specialise in educational textbooks but also enjoy learning about new subject areas and would love to help with projects in any subject area - after all, variety is the spice of life!
I worked in-house for ten years for three different publishers, liaising with academics in the UK and globally, commissioning and project managing across a variety of subjects: languages (French, Spanish, German, Russian), linguistics, law, media, geography and psychology. Other topics included: sport, self-help, well-being and careers. Many of the titles I worked on included four-colour artwork and digital components, including audio.
I am also a qualified teacher of French and Spanish and have a good understanding of curriculum requirements in the UK in these subject areas. I have a CELTA (Cambridge English Language Teaching to Adults) qualification, at grade A, and teach English to adults.
Services
Non-Fiction
Languages
Certifications
- BAHons French with European Studies, University of Sussex
- PGCE French with Spanish, King's College London
- CELTA, Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults
Work experience
Self-employed
Recent work includes:
Development Editing: 'BTEC Child Development', 'Travel and Tourism' and 'Enterprise' for Pearson UK
Copy-editing: Theses on Equality across UK Boards, Chi Kung, non-native English Language Teachers
Proofreading: Alternative assets marketing material for Preqin
Hodder Education, Hachette UK
I was responsible for developing the strategy for the Higher Education Modern Languages, Linguistics and Geography lists. I worked closely with academic authors commissioning books and resources for print and digital. This involved reading book proposals and first chapters and suggesting possible editorial or structural changes to enhance the educational resource for the student reader and the teacher.
Hodder Education, Hachette UK
I relaunched the Higher Education 'Unlocking the Law' series of books and revamped the accompanying website. I also worked on new editions of books about the Media and books on Literature.
Hodder Education, Hachette UK
I edited a wide range of Further and Higher Education titles including highly illustrated textbooks, such as BTEC Sport, and foreign language learning course books in French, Spanish and Italian with audio and digital resources. For the audio recordings I was responsible for sourcing voice artists, preparing scripts and directing the recordings.
Trotman Publishing Ltd
I edited career guides and self-help books for the 14–19 age range. I checked manuscripts, collated proofs, liaised with freelancers and authors, wrote back cover copy and edited and uploaded website content.
The Hemming Group
I edited a local government directory in print and online.
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