Hazel Boydell – Editor

Handling production, editing, and marketing operations for an independent book publisher with a focus on love, sex, and alternative relationship models.

Creating production schedules and working with authors, editors, designers, and printers to ensure deadlines are met.

Copy editing and proofreading book manuscripts. Developing style guides and working with authors, designers, and other editors to ensure the successful publication of high-quality books.

Overseeing marketing initiatives including book tours, reviews, and other publicity.

Providing copy editing, proofreading, and project management services for an independent book publisher with a focus on love, sex, and alternative relationship models.

Maintaining production schedules including working with authors, designers, and printers to ensure deadlines are met.

Using Teamwork and Sync to efficiently manage projects and maintain efficient filing systems.

Developing and executing book tours and marketing campaigns. Undertaking market research, creating relationships with bookstores and other venues, planning travel and logistics, and creating press materials.

Promoted from this position to Associate Publisher.

Managing and editing non-sponsored content for a leading coffee publication. This role involved managing a team of staff and contract writers and often required making complicated and potentially controversial topics accessible for a general audience.

Client liaison for sponsored content including article angle development, creating schedules, and troubleshooting any issues in a diplomatic and professional manner.

Commissioning, developing, and copy editing content with writers from a variety of backgrounds and abilities including many non-professional writers with English as a foreign language.

Creating schedules and implementing firm deadlines with writers and other parties.

Implementing SEO best practices and ensuring that content is engaging and accessible without being dumbed-down.

Maintaining tracking spreadsheets, creating and managing tasks using Asana, overseeing upload of articles to WordPress and troubleshooting any issues.

Writing content including articles, social media copy, and press releases.

Writing, copy editing, and project managing entertainment and celebrity news for the Stars Insider brand.
Adapting English-language content to specific regions including adapting vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation to US, Canada, Australia, and UK audiences.

Developing and maintaining a comprehensive style guide including Plain English principles, country-specific sections, and guidelines for translators.

Providing feedback and development exercises to junior writers and coaching mid-level writers on how to adapt to the brand and market.

Reviewing applications for writer positions and providing feedback to managing editor and HR departments on strengths and weaknesses of prospective employees.

Image research, fact-checking, editing for SEO, and ensuring daily and monthly production targets are met.

Providing proofreading, copy editing, and copywriting services. Clients have included Talk Science to Me, UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Whitecap Books, Harbour Publishing, SHARE, the Columbia Institute, and Orca Books. Projects have included web content, business plans, marketing materials, exhibition materials, and both fiction and non-fiction book manuscripts.

Proofreading edited manuscripts of fiction and non-fiction books, marketing catalogues, and advertising copy. I coordinated changes among editors, authors, and designers to keep projects on firm schedules. This role also included securing Cataloguing-in-Publication data and ISBN codes. I sourced and secured permissions for images and text excerpts and corresponded with printers to prepare production templates and meet specifications.

Maintaining marketing databases and the website of an academic publisher. I created marketing materials in InDesign and distributed review copies of books. I wrote and proofread catalogue copy and marketing “blurbs” for UBC and agency titles. Creating advertisements and page layout for catalogues, as well as media packages and press releases. This role also included pitching books to media and organising events.