Here are some highlights from my freelance proofreading work. Not all projects can be listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Academic books
Adam Hammond (ed), Technology and Literature (2024) (for Cambridge University Press, via Bourchier)
Evan Mawdsley, Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory (2024) (for Yale University Press, via Bourchier)
Grace Jun, Fashion, Disability and Co-Design: A Human-Centered Design Approach (2024) (for Bloomsbury, via Typo•glyphix)
Joe Whelan, Critical Theory for Social Work: A Simple Introduction (2025) (for Policy Press, via Bourchier)
Karolina Majewska Güde, Ewa Partum’s Artistic Practice: An Atlas of Continuity in Different Locations (transcript, 2021) (selected chapters, for the author)
Kate Nash and Deane Williams (eds), The Intellect Handbook of Documentary (forthcoming) (for Intellect Books, via Westchester Publishing Services UK)
Kate Spreadbury and Rachel Hubbard, The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook (2nd edition) (2024) (for Policy Press, via Bourchier)
Kenjus Watson, Nora Cisneros, Lindsay Pérez Huber and Verónica Vélez (eds), Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education: Like a Path in Tall Grasses (2024) (for the publisher, Edward Elgar Publishing)
Lucila de Almeida and Josephine van Zeben (eds), Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System (2023) (for the publisher, Edward Elgar Publishing)
Marco Sassòli, International Humanitarian Law: Rules, Controversies, and Solutions to Problems Arising in Warfare, (2nd edition) (2024) (for the publisher, Edward Elgar Publishing)
Marisol Negrón, Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings (2024) (for the publisher, Duke University Press)
Miguel A. Martínez (ed), Research Handbook on Urban Sociology (2024) (for the publisher, Edward Elgar Publishing)
Nat Dyer, Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray (2024) (for Bristol University Press, via Bourchier)
Thomas Brassington, Dany Girard and Debra Ferreday (eds) New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification (forthcoming) (for Intellect Books, via Westchester Publishing Services UK)
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 (2023) (for UCL Press, via Bourchier)
Non-fiction books
Beatrix Campbell, Secrets and Silence: Uncovering the Legacy of the Cleveland Child Sexual Abuse Case (2023) (for Policy Press, via Bourchier)
Carl Rhodes, Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire (forthcoming) (for Bristol University Press, via Bourchier)
Cécile Simmons, Ctrl Hate Delete: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It (forthcoming) (for Policy Press, via Bourchier)
Dharshini David, Environomics: How the Green Economy is Transforming Your World (2024) (for the publisher, Elliott & Thompson)
Julie Nagel, From Girls with Swords and Men with Wooden Legs: Taiji in Chenjiagou (2021) (for the author)
Lizzie Waterworth, How To Talk So People Will Listen (2023) (for the publisher, DK Children)
Travel guides
Gillian Gloyer, Albania (7th edition) (2022) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Helen Matthews and Neil Matthews, Heritage Weekends (2022) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Siân Pritchard-Jones and Bob Gibbons, Africa Overland (7th edition) (2022) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Simon Richmond, Kent (Slow Travel) (2022) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Thammy Evans and Rudolf Abraham, Istria (3rd edition) (2023) (for the publisher, Bradt Guides)
Clients
booqlab: academic journals
Bourchier: academic and non-fiction books
Bradt Guides: travel guides
Clean Copy: corporate reporting
Dorling Kindersley: children’s non-fiction
Duke University Press: academic books
Edward Elgar Publishing: academic books
Elliott & Thompson: non-fiction books
Flag Communications: corporate reporting
Heidelberg University Press: academic books
Nuanxed: adult and YA fiction
River Publishers: academic journals
Straive: academic books
Summersdale: non-fiction books
Sunrise Setting: academic journals
Typo•glyphix: academic books
Westchester Publishing Services UK: academic books
Whole New Chapter: corporate reporting
Write Business Results: business books
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.