Overview
From fashion photographers to art historians, cookery writers to digital designers, children's fiction authors to postgraduate researchers, and sports journalists to management scholars, I have helped hundreds of writers from a variety of fields to find their voice, focus on their readership, and finish their best work.
My rates follow the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading's suggested minimum rates, adjusted according to the requirements of each project.
Services
Non-Fiction
Antiques & Collectibles
Art
Business & Management
Design
Political Science & Current Affairs
Psychology
Travel
Writing & Publishing
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Work experience
Self-employed
Oct, 1995 —
Present
Antique Collectors' Club
Aug, 2010 —
Aug, 2012
(about 2 years)
Martin Books, Simon & Schuster (UK)
Mar, 2004 —
Aug, 2005
(over 1 year)
The Ilex Press (Octopus Publishing Group)
Aug, 2000 —
Aug, 2001
(about 1 year)
The Stationery Office (TSO; HMSO, privatized)
Mar, 1997 —
Sep, 1999
(over 2 years)
Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO)
Dec, 1995 —
Mar, 1997
(about 1 year)
Henderson Publishing
Jan, 1992 —
Oct, 1995
(over 3 years)
Portfolio
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A Must-read for Every Bibliophile!Book Lovers: Learn what can be done and what should be avoided to preserve a book's value.Book Collectors: Discover how to identify restorations, facsimiles, ... read more
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How Can We Become Better Questioners? We observe that great leaders ask the great questions, we read how creativity is fostered by asking the uncommon question, we experience how coaches inspi... read more
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Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable – and hilarious – performa... read more
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In an educational environment that privileges scripted curricula and intensive preparation for high-stakes tests, the arts offer a more hands-on approach to learning and problem solving, chall... read more
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As writing instruction has become more standardized and structured, student voices have grown silent. Kids still chatter in the halls and socialize at the start of class, but on paper, their i... read more
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A 2008 survey of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs found that nearly half of those identified in a 1987 survey no longer existed twenty years later, pointing to a need for an approa... read more
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Workshopping the Canon introduces practicing and preservice English language arts teachers to a process for planning and teaching the most frequently taught texts in middle and secondary class... read more
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Shakespeare didn't write his plays for readers; he wrote individual "cue scripts" for actors who hadn't read the entire play but had to perform on the fly with almost no rehearsal. Those cue s... read more
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The transition from rote lessons, traditional pedagogy, and standardized tests begins with the belief that students need to learn how to learn--and learn to love learning. Great idea--but how ... read more
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One of the great unsung heroes of twentieth-century British design.
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From the monuments of the ancient world to the modern waxwork museum, the sculpted portrait represents and makes present the living and the dead. Today, the art form remains the victim of its ... read more
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HardCover. Pages: 376 Publisher: Garden Art Press Augustine Henry is one of the most famous of the pioneering plant hunters to have travelled to China during the latter part of the 19th centur... read more
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Horses are very rare in Africa. The few to be found west of Sudan, from the lands of the Sahara and Sahel down to the fringes of the tropical forests, belong to the king, the chief warrior and... read more
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A guide for independent travellers to Eritrea, an African country. It provides the necessary information on Massawa port, a natural gateway to the 350 islands in the Red Sea that offer diving.
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Europe in Black and White offers new critical perspectives on race, immigration, and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference, such as mu... read more
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The book's mission is to document the legends of the Memphis soul music business. Photographer Thom Gilbert set up a photo studio at Royal Studios in Memphis, home of the famed Hi Records that... read more
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Robert Motherwell is a monograph to this pioneering Abstract Expressionist, who enjoyed early recognition. At 29 years, he had his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim's legendary gallery (1944... read more
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This catalogue analyses a field of art history that only recently has been given renewed attention with the translation in French (1997), English (2008) and Italian (2011) of Julius von Schlos... read more
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Paperback. Pages: 72 Publisher: Officina Liaria The radical changes undergone by Inuit society in Arctic Canada during the period starting with the 'discovery' of contemporary art in 1948. the... read more
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HardCover. Pages: 88 Publisher: Officina Liaria This large-size book presents 40 paintings and drawings of this extraordinary observer of nature. His pieces were particularly lively because he... read more
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'Cat Lady Chronicles' is the heartwarming true story of an art-book editor who finds her unexpected calling as a Cat Lady. Author Diane Lovejoy shares her private joy in rescuing ten orphaned ... read more
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Alphacats are a special breed: they are cats with a pedigree (well, most of them) and painted almost hair by hair, by scientific illustrator Gabriella Gallerani, in strict alphabetical order. ... read more
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Immigration is an ongoing, global phenomenon and schools and teachers in host countries must continually find new ways of working with the increasing numbers of immigrant pupils, including ref... read more
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Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has been paid to the intersection of these important art forms. Write in Tune addr... read more
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Hole's Live Through This
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Discourse of Public Participation Media
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This volume provides an essential roster of primary research methods as they apply to health communication inquiry. Editor Bryan B. Whaley brings together key health communication researchers ... read more
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Although multicultural education has made significant gains in recent years, with many courses specifically devoted to the topic in both undergraduate and graduate education programs, and more... read more
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Although scholarly examinations of privilege have increased in recent decades, an emphasis on privilege studies pedagogy remains lacking within institutions. This edited collection explores be... read more
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This work bridges theory and practice in examining emerging approaches to enhancing resilience and t....
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The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships. This handboo... read more
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