Overview
Hi, I'm Sharon McTeir and I am a home-based freelance book designer, typesetter and picture researcher. I am lucky enough to have worked on a wide variety of books, teaching resources, etc with a number of well-known publishing companies in the UK, Europe and the US.Notable projects include the Shorter French-English Dictionary for Harrap, Alasdair Gray, A Life in Pictures for Canongate Books, Chinese Urban Transformation by the Royal Institute of British Architecture and many school and college textbooks for Hodder Education.I work with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator for design and typesetting. I can use more complex typesetting systems and have used Arbortext 3B2 in the past. I am used to working with different types of formats, from simple Microsoft documents through to highly structured data in XML. I use a variety of plug-ins in InDesign for languages with diacritics and right-to-left languages, and science and mathematical typesetting.I am a member of the Picture Research Association and have researched and cleared rights on a huge variety of subjects from eco living to cookery to history. I can also commission illustrators and artists for projects.I enjoy working on projects with many different types of publishers and also helping first-time authors through the self-publishing process.The companies I regularly work for now include Oxford University Press, Hodder Education and Harper Collins.I am happy to work on all sorts of projects from dictionaries, language and education textbooks through to coffee-table art books, poetry and children's books.
Services
Non-Fiction
Education & Reference
ELT
Engineering & Materials Science
Math & Science
Technology
Awards
- BA Degree
- Picture Research - Pass with Disinction
Certifications
- Napier University of Edinburgh
- The Publishing Training Centre
Work experience
Self-employed
Jun, 2008 —
Present
I currently work with a number of publishers including Hodder Education Collins Publishers, Oxford University Press, Edinburgh University Press on a wide variety of projects covering education, language-learning, ELT, dictionaries, reference, art titles etc. The services I offer are design, typesetting (working in Adobe Creative Suite) and picture research.
Languages I have worked with include: English, French, Spanish, German, Scots Gaelic, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish, Romanian, Russian, Japanese and Kurdish.
I'm a member of the PRA (the Picture Research Association) in the UK.
Chambers Harrap Publishers
Sep, 1998 —
Jun, 2018
(over 19 years)
I was the Design and Prepress Manager at Chambers Harrap, part of the Hachette group. My role was to set up and run a Prepress Department which involved bringing typesetting in-house and working closely with the other departments including editorial, XML, data and production teams to improve the workflow of the company. My department also worked on typesetting projects for other areas of the Hachette group around the world, including Larousse in France, Mexico, Italy and Brazil, and Houghton Mifflin in the US.
Portfolio
Deliver a detailed and focused Child Development course with the 7th edition of this textbook from Pamela Minett, designed to cover all the relevant topics in concise and highly illustrated chapters. - Quickly access individual topic areas with concise, focuse... read more
These small books are a must-have for travelers. Each book contains a 7,000-entry bilingual dictionary and phrasebook, complete with sample sentences and phonetic transcriptions to aid in usage and pronunciation. Also included are notes on grammar, slang, and ... read more
If you need cheering up...If you need guidance...If you want to laugh...If you need courage...Sometimes only a poem will do.In this magical new collection of our best-loved poems, selected and introduced by the creators of the bestselling app iF Poems, discove... read more
navigating by the stars - thatchingcharcoal burning - maze laying - making candlesmaking besom brooms - making ciderblacksmithing - haymaking - using herbal remediesLost Crafts is an attractive and engaging introduction to a range of traditional and sustainabl... read more
This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2021. Develop computational thinking and ensure full coverage of the revised Cambridge Assessment International Education AS & A Level Comp... read more
Revise with confidence for your exams on genuine National 5 Papers from the Scottish Qualifications Authority.-Achieve your best grade with three official exam papers with examiner-checked answers.-Ensure you understand the course and exam requirements from 20... read more
Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Chemistry First Teaching: September 2014 First Exam: Summer 2015 Ideal practice material for an element of Higher Chemistry that contributes to over 20% of the final exam grade. Calculations are one of the most challengin... read more
Practical Cookery for the Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma
First published in 1985, the Concise Scots Dictionary offers a comprehensive single-volume reference. This new edition is the result of thirty years' research and has been revised and updated throughout to reflect modern Scots usage, alongside coverage of olde... read more
Alasdair Gray is Scotland's best known polymath. Born 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated in design and mural art from Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writing TV and radio plays, his first novel, the loosely autobiographical... read more
Angus Watson's "Essential Gaelic-English and English-Gaelic" dictionaries are well-established as the leading dictionaries of the Gaelic language. This combined dictionary is ideal for learners of Gaelic at all levels, and its generous coverage of vocabulary f... read more
Collins Gem English Dictionary and Thesaurus
An up-to-date, easy-reference dictionary with key GCSE curriculum words highlighted and a practical and fun supplement covering key vocabulary areas. It is the ideal dictionary for learners of German of all ages, but especially for those aiming for GCSE exam s... read more
We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education to gain endorsement for this forthcoming series.Take mathematical understanding to the next level with this accessible series, written by experienced authors, examiners and teachers.- Improve con... read more
Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Physics First Teaching: September 2017 First Exam Summer 2018 This second edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect the changes made by the SQA to the National 5 Course Specification with chapters on the fol... read more
"Dictionary based on the Collins Latin gem Ã1957 by Professor D.A. Kidd, Canterbury University"--Title page verso.
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