Catherine Williams – Designer

With 30 years experience of book design and production, I am happy to offer my services for typesetting/page layout, image optimisation, packaging and getting books to printers/distributors with problem-free files. I have used Adobe InDesign since its first release in 1999, and was using Adobe PageMaker before that.

I have been helping independent authors since April 2017 through my own business and have a 5-star rating from authors who have used my services via Reedsy. I am generally booked up (pun intended!) for two to three months ahead so please keep that in mind when submitting requests.

My experience includes 11 years at Able Publishing, a company that specifically assisted self-publishing authors to get their books produced. The books produced included family and local histories, biographies, educational titles and fiction.

I spent 7 happy years at Robert Hale Ltd, a family-owned independent publisher, with responsibility for producing trade fiction and non-fiction titles in a wide variety of genres. There was plenty of communication with the author through the production of their books. Robert Hale ceased trading at the end of November 2015.

I also worked in the Life division of DK as a Pre-Production Producer on an extended maternity cover contract. It was an excellent experience working for one of the best illustrated non-fiction publishers but I missed the creativity of the work I had done before. When the contract came to an end, I saw it as an opportunity to return to a more creative role as a freelancer.