Background
I graduated from the University of Sussex in 1987 and began my publishing career in 1992 as assistant editor, and subsequently managing editor, at Book Guild Publishing. In 1994 I joined Open University Press as production editor and the following year was appointed books editor at GMC Publications. I went freelance in 1997.
In the early years I worked extensively with Open University Press on academic titles and with Wayland (soon to become Hodder Wayland) on illustrated children's educational titles including The Age of Castles, The World Wars, History Through Poetry and History Beneath Your Feet.
In the early 2000s I began working for William Reed Business Media as a freelance sub-editor on their magazine Convenience Store and later became sub-editor of another Reed publication, Shopping Centre. I also delivered several training days for William Reed staff on the mysterious art of proofreading.
More recently I have worked on several web-based editing projects for the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and with Rotovision on their World's Top Photographers' Workshops series.
