The best copy editors for hire near London

Elizabeth

London, United Kingdom

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Full-service editor with 20+ years experience. Specialising in fiction, including fantasy, crime & historical novels. On time and efficient!

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Picture Books, Children's, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Fantasy, and Thriller & Suspense.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Parragon
• Robert Hale, Ltd.
• Hodder and Stoughton

Elv

London, United Kingdom

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Editorial consultant with 20 years’ publishing experience. I can help you shape your book, grow as a writer and create a great proposal.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Poetry, Anthologies, Classics, Middle Grade, and Children's.

Work experience:

• OUP
• Penguin Random House
• Self-employed
• Scholastic
• Simon and Schuster
• Egmont

Eliza

London, UK

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Developmental editor, copy-editor and proofreader with 8 years of publishing experience. I love helping writers to become authors.

Genres: Coming of Age, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, and Thriller & Suspense.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• RCW Literary Agency
• 4th Estate, HarperCollins

Karen

London, United Kingdom

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Award-winning editor & publishing consultant. Launched bestselling series like Beast Quest. Specializes in adult, YA & children's fiction.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Women's Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Mystery & Crime, and Thriller & Suspense.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Little, Brown Books For Young Readers
• Working Partners
• Walker Books
• Scholastic

Tom

London, UK

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Professional editor/creative consultant with 18 years of industry experience, specialising in comics, graphic novels, and genre fiction.

Genres: Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Fantasy, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Humor & Comedy, Comics Non-Fiction, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Titan Comics
• Titan Magazines
• Self-employed

Billi-Dee

London, UK

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Collaborative and experienced editor formerly at Hachette UK. Specialising in romance, thriller and crime.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Psychological Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, Chick Lit, and Women's Fiction.

Work experience:

• Bookouture, Hachette UK
• Bad Form Review
• Self-employed

Kieron

London, UK

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I edit and write non-fiction about history and culture for adults and children.

Genres: Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Travel, and Biographies & Memoirs.

Work experience:

• Weldon Owen International
• Amber Books Ltd
• Self-employed
• Bloomsbury Publishing
• Old Street Publishing

Richard

London, UK

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Novelist published by Penguin (US), Orion (UK), translated into 20 languages. Formerly senior non-fiction commissioning editor at Hachette.

Genres: Humor & Comedy, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Romance, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Sports & Outdoors, Thriller & Suspense, and Self-Help & Self-Improvement.

Work experience:

• Headline (Hachette UK)
• Orion (UK), Penguin (US)

Francesca

London, UK

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Eagle-eyed editor (copy and developmental) with a passion for health and social care publishing, legal content and the humanities.

Genres: Medicine, Nursing, & Dentistry, Math & Science, Non-Fiction, Education & Reference, Health & Wellbeing, Business & Management, Law, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Work experience:

• Mark Allen Group
• ARK Group
• Self-employed
• Out-Spoken Press
• Intersentia UK
• Globe Law and Business

Nicola

London, UK

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Editor and proofreader with 15+ years experience, specialising in cookery, biography, history, politics, current affairs, self-help, travel.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Political Science & Current Affairs, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Preface Publishing, Random House
• Profile Books

Claire

London, UK

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Experienced non-fiction editor specialising in copy-editing and proofing travel, art, wildlife and family content. Lonely Planet, DK Travel

Genres: Travel, Non-Fiction, Nature, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Parenting & Families.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Lonely Planet
• Dorling Kindersley

Crystal

London, UK

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20 years publishing experience in the industry. Loves working with stories and authors that speak to the human condition.

Genres: Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Cultural & Ethnic, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction, Entertainment, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Political Science & Current Affairs, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Work experience:

• OWN IT! Publishing Limited
• The Literary Consultancy
• ZED Books
• Penguin Random House
• Peters, Fraser and Dunlop Literary, Film and TV Agency
• OWN IT! Agency Limited

Rachel

London, UK

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Children's/YA specialist and agent with 15 years' experience commissioning and editing. Ex-Penguin Random House, S&S and Roald Dahl HQ

Genres: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's, Contemporary Fiction, Social & Family Issues, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, LGBTQ Fiction, Romantic Comedy, and Romance.

Work experience:

• Simon & Schuster UK
• Random House Children's Books
• Puffin Books, Penguin Children's
• Scholastic Clubs & Fairs
• Egmont UK Ltd
• Roald Dahl Story Company UK Ltd
• Self-employed
• Jo Unwin Literary Agency

Alex

London, UK

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Experienced, enthusiastic and versatile editor who loves getting to grips with a difficult draft of a novel or tackling non-fiction.

Genres: Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Story, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, History, and Political Science & Current Affairs.

Work experience:

• International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Thames & Hudson
• Rogers, Coleridge and White
• Cornerstones Literary Consultancy
• Self-employed

Becky

London, UK

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I'm a creative, enthusiastic and precise editor with experience working at multiple Big 5 publishers.

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Mystery & Crime, ELT, Non-Fiction, Picture Books, and Children's.

Work experience:

• Macmillan Children's Books
• Self-employed
• Penguin Random House
• Palgrave Macmillan

Richard

London, UK

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A 10-year track record at Hachette UK, editing Booker-nominated authors and Sunday Times bestsellers. Memoir, Lit Fiction, Crime/Thriller.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Sports & Outdoors, Travel, Entertainment, History, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Work experience:

• Quercus Books
• Janklow & Nesbit UK
• Profile Books
• Penguin Random House UK

James

London, UK

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I'm a freelance editor specialising in developmental editing and editorial assessment. I was previously Publishing Director for Lume Books.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Short Story, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Lume Books