Faith Marsland

Faith Marsland – Editor

Fiction and non-fiction editor, current clients include Bookouture, Ebury, Faber and Mils and Boon, formerly in-house at Bloomsbury

Overview

I'm an editor with over 15 years of experience, specialising in romance, cosy women's fiction, fantasy, thriller and suspense, general commercial fiction as well as memoir and self-help.


Current clients include Bookouture, Penguin Randomhouse, Bloomsbury and Mills and Boon, for whom I have line edited, copyedited and proofread. I am also a Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders.


I'd love to help you get your manuscript ready for submission or self-publishing - let's talk!

Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Fantasy Romance Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction
Languages
English (UK) English (US)

Work experience

Self-employed

Jan, 2022 — Present

Providing copyediting, line editing, structural editing, proofreading and project management to publishing houses.

Bloomsbury

Jun, 2020 — Dec, 2021 (over 1 year)

Project management and development duties same as Development Editor role; additional responsibility for departmental and new product research.

Bloomsbury

Jun, 2019 — Jun, 2020 (about 1 year)

Commissioning front list, new editions and new series for photography and design, for diverse audiences (scholarly, student, professional).

Bloomsbury

Jun, 2016 — Jun, 2019 (about 3 years)

Development/structural editing of manuscripts; developing new book proposals; overseeing review process; line editing as required; flexible approach for different readerships and book types.

Hodder education

Sep, 2014 — Jun, 2016 (over 1 year)

Project managing A Level and GCSE digital and print resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences list.

Self-employed

Mar, 2010 — Oct, 2014 (over 4 years)

Providing copyediting and proofreading services to publishers.

Routledge

Sep, 2007 — Feb, 2010 (over 2 years)

Project managing up to 30 titles from manuscript to publication.

Portfolio

Does a girl ever really learn from her mistakes? Detective Sergeant Megan Taylor thinks so. She once lost her heart to a man who was too charming and she isn’t about to make the same mistake again – especially not with sexy defence lawyer, Scott Armstrong. Asi... read more
Molly's War

Hope, Maggie

Dance Until Dawn

Berni Stevens

In the first book of this dark, sexy paranormal series, an unlikely girl becomes the one thing a vampire needs more than blood . . . A twenty-two-year-old dancer in London’s West End, Ellie Wakefield should be in the prime of her life. But now, she is no longe... read more
A journey across England puts two strangers on the road to love in this contemporary British romance.Winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association 2016 Contemporary Romantic Novel of the Year Award Celebrity photographer Grace Buchanan always assumed she would... read more

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