Nicola Evans – Editor

I project manage, edit and proofread books in a variety of genres. Books I have worked on include:

Memoir (We’ll Always Have Paris / Emma Beddington; A Different Kind of Daughter / Maria Toorpakai; No Cunning Plan / Tony Robinson; I Own You / Dawn McConnell)

Self-help (Living the Life Unexpected / Jody Day; Anxiety for Beginners / Eleanor Morgan; We Are All a Work in Progress / Jo Clayton)

Current Affairs/History (Eat, Sweat, Play / Anna Kessel; This Chair Rocks / Ashton Applewhite; The Invisible Killer / Gary Fuller; The Age of Static / Phil Harrison; Eurovision! / Chris West; Futsal / Jamie Fahey)

Cookery (Hawksmoor at Home / Huw Gott and Will Beckett; Comptoir Libanais / Tony Kitous; Choccywoccydoodah / Christine Taylor)

Fiction (The Ornatrix / Kate Howard; Wrong Place / Michelle Davies; Let Me Be Like Water / S. K. Perry)

As Managing Editor of the Preface list I managed our publishing programme of fifty fiction and non-fiction titles per year through from delivery of manuscript to publication. My role included setting editorial schedules, responsibility for projects running on time and on budget, author liaison, working with authors and designers on flat-plans for highly-illustrated and cookery books, line editing, proofreading, commissioning and managing freelancers and ensuring work was done to the highest possible standard, collating proofs, briefing covers and working with internal and external designers, final sign-off on jacket artwork and text, attending acquisitions meetings.

I worked in the editorial department of this successful independent non-fiction publisher. Working across the whole list, I fostered close relationships with publicity, sales and production departments, learning about all aspects of book publishing. My editorial duties included reporting on submissions, writing copy, liaising with authors on manuscripts and proofs. I managed the production of Profile's biannual catalogues which involved setting the schedules, writing the initial plan, proofreading and editing copy, working with the designer on proofs, checking corrections, briefing the cover and arranging for the appropriate files to be sent to the printer on time. My role also included rights – I created rights material and I attended the Frankfurt and London Bookfairs where I had a full schedule of meetings with foreign publishers in order to sell translation rights in Profile and Serpent’s Tail titles.