Here are some highlights from my freelance proofreading work. Not all projects can be listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Academic books
Virginia Cox and Lisa Sampson with a translation by Anna Wainwright, Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi (for UCL Press, via Bourchier)
Non-fiction books
Beatrix Campbell, Secrets and Silence: Uncovering the Legacy of the Cleveland Child Sexual Abuse Case (forthcoming) (for Policy Press, via Bourchier)
Julie Nagel, From Girls with Swords and Men with Wooden Legs: Taiji in Chenjiagou (for the author)
Lizzie Waterworth, How To Talk So People Will Listen (for the publisher, DK Children)
Travel guides
Gillian Gloyer, Albania (7th edition) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Helen Matthews and Neil Matthews, Heritage Weekends (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Siân Pritchard-Jones and Bob Gibbons, Africa Overland (7th edition) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Simon Richmond, Kent (Slow Travel) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Thammy Evans and Rudolf Abraham, Istria (3rd edition) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Clients
booqlab: academic journals
Bourchier: academic books
Clean Copy: corporate reporting
Dorling Kindersley: children’s non-fiction
Flag Communications: corporate reporting
Heidelberg University Press: academic books
Nuanxed: adult and YA fiction
River Publishers: academic journals
Straive: academic books
Sunrise Setting: academic journals
Write Business Results: business books and marketing material
In-house at the LEGO Group
Before becoming a freelancer, I worked on children’s books and magazines as part of the LEGO Group’s publishing team. Here are some of my favourite projects from that time:
LEGO FRIENDS magazine 2018 reboot
LEGO: Make Your Own Movie: The 100% Official LEGO Guide to Stop-Motion Animation
The LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE Junior Novel
Jonathan Fenske, I’m Fun, Too!
Max Brallier (author) and Alessandro Valdrighi (illustrator), The Forbidden Power (LEGO NEXO KNIGHTS: Knights Academy #1)
Penelope Arlon, Factastic (LEGO Nonfiction): A LEGO Adventure in the Real World
Penelope Arlon, Science (LEGO Nonfiction): A LEGO Adventure in the Real World
Tracey West, Rogue City (The LEGO Batman Movie: Build Your Own Story)
In-house at Cambridge University Press
I was Production Editor for a list of academic journals. I particularly enjoyed working on HSS journals in the classics and archaeology.