Overview
I'm an experienced editor of writing for children and adults (fiction, non-fiction, picture books, novelties, and writing for brands).
I help an author develop and structure their ideas, be consistent and make sense - while ensuring their voice shines through. A recent highlight of my close working relationships with an author was working with Laura Dockrill on her novel LORALI, which was recently nominated for the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Medal.
I copy-edit and proofread thoroughly and intelligently to ensure faultless writing. A light touch can be needed here to maintain the author's voice rather than rigidly applying grammatical rules without sense.
I also enjoy polishing translated text, working with a translator or author to ensure that their words shine as naturally in English as they deserve to.
"Jenny is a wonderful editor of children's fiction - expert at structural editing, a grammar guru, wonderful at working with authors and illustrators. Creative and diligent, I would recommend Jenny as a highly skilled editor." -- Sara O'Connor, as Editorial Director, Hot Key Books
"We are very pleased with what you've done to the translation. We love it! Your comments are very helpful to us in the production of this book." -- Xinlin Wang, Publisher, Balestier Books
I help an author develop and structure their ideas, be consistent and make sense - while ensuring their voice shines through. A recent highlight of my close working relationships with an author was working with Laura Dockrill on her novel LORALI, which was recently nominated for the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Medal.
I copy-edit and proofread thoroughly and intelligently to ensure faultless writing. A light touch can be needed here to maintain the author's voice rather than rigidly applying grammatical rules without sense.
I also enjoy polishing translated text, working with a translator or author to ensure that their words shine as naturally in English as they deserve to.
"Jenny is a wonderful editor of children's fiction - expert at structural editing, a grammar guru, wonderful at working with authors and illustrators. Creative and diligent, I would recommend Jenny as a highly skilled editor." -- Sara O'Connor, as Editorial Director, Hot Key Books
"We are very pleased with what you've done to the translation. We love it! Your comments are very helpful to us in the production of this book." -- Xinlin Wang, Publisher, Balestier Books
Services
Non-Fiction
Children’s Non-Fiction
Fiction
Literary Fiction
Middle Grade
Picture Books
Young Adult
Languages
English (UK)
Work experience
Hot Key Books
Mar, 2013 —
Present
I structural-edit, line-edit, copy-edit, working with the author, and manage the flow of copy to Production.
Walker Books
Feb, 2008 —
Feb, 2013
(about 5 years)
Working in the Novelty team, I helped authors develop complex pop-up books, to ensure non-fiction books spoke appropriately and engagingly to their audience, and worked with authors such as Jeanne Willis on fiction for 7-11 year olds.
Portfolio
A boy on a quest against the power of the stormEleven-year-old Danny's parents are storm chasers - which sounds fun and exciting, and it is, so long as you aren't the son who has to wait behind at home. And one night, after a particularly fierce storm, Danny's... read more
A new life in a new city - would could possibly go wrong . . . ?When eighteen-year-old Anna leaves school and moves to Liverpool, she feels like her life is finally beginning. She's landed her dream job at a theatre, and she's moving into an exciting (if not s... read more
A funny, frank and fearless guide to being a girl. Being a girl is not all sugar and spice. How can you possibly survive school and even think about talking to your crush when you have spots in places you didn't even know you had, your boobs are too big (or to... read more
What is a terrorist? A shocking, moving and timely novel about the choices that shape us.Rico knows trouble. He knows the look of it and the sound of it. He also knows to stay away from it as best he can. Because if there's one thing his Romany background has ... read more
Sarah Beeny's practical good sense and expert eye, combined with her natural warmth and energy, are familiar to fans of her hugely popular TV programmes. Her down-to-earth attitude and expert knowledge, gained at the coalface of house renovation, inform her ap... read more
Give your wardrobe a thoroughly modern vintage makeover with Dawn O'Porter and her team of style experts!Tying-in to her new prime-time six-part Channel 4 show of the same name, journalist Dawn O'Porter is a woman on a mission: to ignite Britain's passion for ... read more
On the first day of school, a young girl shows up and discovers she is the only pupil in school. All the teachers want to teach her what they know but they start fighting for her attention. They fight so much that they do not notice the girl creeping out of th... read more
Having spent most of her life in London, Sarah Alderson quit her job in 2009 and took off on a round the world trip with her husband and tutu-wearing daughter, on a mission to find a new place to call home. After a year spent exploring India, Singapore, Austra... read more
This is a startling coming-of-age novel set in a contemporary Nazi England. Jessika Keller is a good girl: she obeys her father, does her best to impress Herr Fisher at the Bund Deutscher Madel meetings and is set to be a world champion ice skater. Her neighbo... read more
Colourful, raw, brave, rich and fantastical - this mermaid tale is not for the faint-hearted. Looking after a naked girl he found washed up under Hastings pier isn't exactly how Rory had imagined spending his sixteenth birthday. But more surprising than findin... read more
