Louis Archard – Editor

In ten years as an editor and editorial project manager at a UK trade publisher, I've worked on a wide variety of different nonfiction books from image-based local and transport history books to long and heavily illustrated accounts of the Titanic and other famous ocean liners and more general text-based books on King Canute, the Second World War, the Habsburgs and Afghanistan.

Working as a freelancer, I've been lucky enough to work on a variety of interesting manuscripts, including a self-help title, a modern-day Western, a dystopian adventure and a murder mystery. Some of the generous feedback I've had from my clients includes: 'experienced and articulate', 'able to offer observations on a macro and micro level', 'his suggestions will assist me to write a better next draft and be a better writer', 'a professional, witty and astute reviewer of one's work' and 'a thoroughly enjoyable, excellent and insightful professional beta reader'.

As well as my editorial experience, I'm very widely read in history (especially medieval history - in which I have a degree - but also the history of the Second World War and various aspects of Asian history and of the history of the British Empire) and have excellent general knowledge (honed in the local quiz league!) should fact-checking be on your list of requirements.

Having also written several published works of military history myself, I'm intimately familiar with the struggles that an author goes through!