Overview
I'm a professional book editor with 20+ years' experience in the UK and NZ publishing industries. I am also an award-winning author of both adult and children's books, traditionally and self-published. (My adult fiction is published under the pseudonym Olivia Hayfield.) As an editor, I work with local (NZ/Australia) and overseas authors and publishers, and specialise in children's (picture books/MG/JF/non-fiction), YA, non-fiction, and commercial adult fiction. I have also edited sci-fi, fantasy, and crime/thrillers. Free sample edits provided.
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
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Awards
- Storylines Notable Book Award (2016) for The Ghosts of Tarawera (author and editor)
- CLNZ award for Best Book or Series in Secondary Publishing, for Life Processes, Ecology and Evolution (Pearson, 2012): Development editor and editor
- Storylines Notable Book award for Our Children Aotearoa (Pearson, 2011): Development editor, editor, author and photographer
Work experience
Self-employed
Pearson
Dorling Kindersley (London, UK)
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