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I have six books in 17 languages. Edited 250+. I'm clearsighted and considerate. I love authentic voices and powerful tales.

Genres: Middle Grade, Children's, Fiction, Parenting & Families, Non-Fiction, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Young Adult, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Biographies & Memoirs.

Work experience:

  • Penguin Random House; Little, Brown; Watkins Publishing
  • Oxford University
  • Oxfordshire Mind, the Mental Health charity
  • Self-employed

Experienced editor specialising in narrative non-fiction, biography and memoir and women’s fiction. Helping you find a way with your words.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Women's Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Humanities & Social Sciences, Health & Wellbeing, and Self-Help & Self-Improvement.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Pan Macmillan
  • Think Books, Think Publishing
  • Granada Learning and Nfer Nelson Publishers

Joanna 5 star rating

Oxford, United Kingdom

Authors say I’m thorough, professional and prompt – contact me to find out why!

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Political Science & Current Affairs, Humanities & Social Sciences, Psychology, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, History, and Health & Wellbeing.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Blackwell Publishing, Oxford

Experienced proofreader and copyeditor formerly employed at OUP and Routledge. Interested in work in any subject, field or level of English.

Genres: History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Political Science & Current Affairs, and Education & Reference.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Kogan Page
  • Taylor and Francis Books
  • Taylor and Francis Journals
  • The Pertinent Press

Andrew 5 star rating

Oxfordshire, Oxford, UK

I help business leaders and subject experts just like you publish professional non-fiction books.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Management, and Self-Help & Self-Improvement.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Hawker Publications
  • The Right Book Company

Freelance proofreader with 20+ years’ publishing experience, here to help authors polish manuscripts for submissions and self-publishing.

Genres: Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Romance, Thriller & Suspense, Women's Fiction, Action & Adventure, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Entertainment, History, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • The Novelry

Editor with over 10 years experience, specialising in women's fiction, fantasy and romance. I love helping people tell their stories.

Genres: Women's Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy, and Romance.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • WHSmith Travel (Harrods and Selfridges Concessions)
  • Headline Publishing Company

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Experienced developmental editor of business and technology books, working with leaders, professionals and subject-matter experts.

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Computers & Internet, Engineering, Math & Science, Technology, Education & Reference, and Self-Help & Self-Improvement.

Work experience:

  • Taylor & Francis

Hannah 5 star rating

Oxford, United Kingdom

An editor with expertise in children's books, literacy and artwork design, I’ve worked with authors such as Julia Donaldson and Terry Deary.

Genres: Middle Grade, Children's, Fiction, Picture Books, Comics & Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Education & Reference, Comics Non-Fiction, and ELT.

Work experience:

  • Pearson Plc
  • Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Oxford University Press
  • Hamilton Trust
  • HarperCollins Publishers
  • Camel Publishing Ltd.
  • BBC
  • Oxford Inspires
  • Blue Tutors
  • University of Oxford
  • Forge Media, University of Sheffield

Accomplished developmental editor specialising in commercial fiction with experience in-house at major traditional and digital publishers.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Historical Fiction, Romance, Thriller & Suspense, Women's Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Bookouture
  • Amazon Publishing UK
  • Hodder& Stoughton

I'm a writer and editor specialising in literature for adults and children. Clients include Scholastic, National Literacy Trust and OUP.

Genres: Education & Reference, Non-Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Fiction, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Writing & Publishing.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

I've helped people write bestsellers. And I've written 15 books translated into 16 languages: Penguin, Harper Collins. I can help you.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Editor/Writer with more than 20 years of experience in educational publishing, magazines, technical and web.

Genres: Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Education & Reference, Math & Science, Writing & Publishing, Children's, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, History, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Work experience:

  • Macmillan UK
  • Multimedia Communications, Singapore
  • Marshall Cavendish, Singapore
  • Educational Publishing House, Singapore
  • Horizon Knowledge Solutions Pte Ltd, Singapore
  • Shing Lee Publishers Pte Ltd, Singapore
  • Chacon Publishing Inc, Calgary, Canada
  • Self-employed

Nigel 5 star rating

Steyning, United Kingdom

My aim is to enhance the saleability (is that a word? . . . it is now!) of publications, by providing indexes of the highest quality.

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Economics, Humanities & Social Sciences, Engineering & Materials Science, Math & Science, Finance & Accounting, Medicine, Nursing, & Dentistry, Physics & Chemistry, Psychology, and Technology.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Jude 5 star rating

United Kingdom

Multi-award writer & editor (MA Writing–Distinction). Published since 2004: Collins, Pearson & more. Expert fiction & non-fiction support.

Genres: Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, ELT, Middle Grade, Children's, Fiction, Picture Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Education & Reference, Young Adult, and Poetry.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Dick 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

Experienced London-based editor of fiction (novels, short stories), biography, art and culture.

Genres: Mystery & Crime, Fiction, and Humor & Comedy.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Waltham Forest Council

Thalia 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

Editor with over a decade's experience working with best-selling authors at Pan Macmillan and HarperCollins. I'd love to hear from you.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Women's Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Health & Wellbeing, and Coming of Age.

Work experience:

  • Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation
  • HarperCollins
  • Pan Macmillan
  • The Dreamwork Collective

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