Natalie Bolderston – Editor

Sapere Books is a genre fiction eBook publisher, specialising in historical fiction, crime, romance, and women's fiction. My role involves:
• Proofreading and copyediting manuscripts. In particular, I look out for typos, inconsistencies, grammatical errors, tense confusion, and special characters that have not formatted properly.
• Reading new submissions and conveying my thoughts to the editorial director (my overall impression, the strengths of the submission, and areas for improvement).

I assisted with the publication of monographs, edited collections and textbooks on RLI's Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Geography lists. I am therefore comfortable with editing material that may feature technical or specialist language.

I assisted with the publication of three volumes of contemporary poetry, as part of the press’ Pavilion Poetry series. I was the copyeditor for Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir, an innovative work that features specialist language from a variety of fields. The book went on to be shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, one of the biggest poetry prizes in the UK.

The Windows Project is a Liverpool-based arts charity. Here, my role involved helping to select submissions to the organisation's poetry magazine, Smoke, and helping out at writing advice desks (providing editorial feedback to aspiring writers).