Overview
As an editor, I have helped authors with character-development, plot-development, structuring, pacing, etc. Whatever is needed for the advancement, refinement, polishing, or completion of a piece of work.
I have experience copy-editing and proofreading in both British and American English, and according to various house style manuals.
Since 2013 I have appraised hundreds of manuscripts, both fiction and non-fiction, providing analysis, criticism, feedback and endorsement for work from such authors as Donal Ryan, Rob Doyle, Sam Coll, Elske Rahill, Pat McCabe, J.P. Donleavy, Mike McCormack, Richard Kearney, Aidan Mathews, Sara Baume, Michael D. Higgins, and others.
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Lilliput Press, Dublin
I have provided developmental editing and editorial assessment for the Lilliput Press (Small Press of the Year 2020 - British Book Awards) for more than a decade.
I edited the Lilliput Press-published books Beat (Rowan Somerville), Oona (Alice Lyons), and the forthcoming Ravelling (Estelle Birdy, May 2024), working in close collaboration with the authors over many months and drafts, honing the works and guiding them to completion.
I have also appraised hundreds of manuscripts, fiction and non-fiction, as principal out-of-house reader for Lilliput over the last decade, providing analysis, feedback and advice to authors such as Donal Ryan, Rob Doyle, Sam Coll, Elske Rahill, Pat McCabe, J.P. Donleavy, Mike McCormack, Richard Kearney, Aidan Mathews, Sara Baume, Michael D. Higgins, and others.
Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois
I worked as a freelance copy-editor and proofreader for the celebrated Dalkey Archive Press, on published work such as Narcisse on a Tightrope (Olivier Targowla, trans. Paul Curtis Daw), The Round Dance of Water (Sergey Kuznetsov, trans. Valeriya Yermishova), To Kill a Serpent in the Shell (Boris Akunin, trans. Ileana Alexandra Orlich), and others.
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Eduardo C.
Apr, 2024
