Overview
I am a former History lecturer and author. In 2015, I left academia to enter the world of publishing on a freelance basis. I have since trained in Indexing, Proofreading and Copy-editing. My freelance business offers Copy-editing as the primary service with Historical and Crime Fiction at the core.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
History
Travel
True Crime
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Certifications
- Publishing Training Centre - Editing Fiction
- Society of Indexers (UK) - Introduction to Indexing
- Society for Editors and Proofreaders - Proofreading 2 - Headway
- Society for Editors and Proofreaders - Copy-editing 2 - Headway
Work experience
Self-employed
Sep, 2015 —
Present
Following a twelve-year career as a full-time academic historian I decided to change path in mid-2015. As an author I have written three books on various themes around the history of crime and punishment. I decided to use my skills as a researcher and writer, combined with my expertise as an editor - for two years (2006 and 2007) of an international peer-reviewed journal - to enter the world of publishing as copy-editor and indexer. I became particularly interested in this field following the publication of my first non-fiction book in 2009.
As I ended my academic career I began re-training in skills such as indexing, editing and proofreading. I am most interested in copy-editing, however, and several manuscripts on which I have worked, are already in production. While I have mostly edited historical fiction and non-fiction, and crime, my interests are divers - for example, my most recent commission was a travel book set in India. I have also been working as an indexer, a skill in which I trained after being asked to index one of my own books. I have also been asked to provide proofreading and editing services to a number of business/administrative organizations here in Ireland.
For my portfolio I will upload images of the two most recent books I indexed.
Portfolio
This book examines the Inebriate Reformatory system in Ireland, from its foundation in 1900 until its closure in 1920, and the three institutions charged with punishing or rehabilitating habitual drunkards: the State Inebriate Reformatory, the Certified Inebri... read more
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