A fast, reliable freelance editor with 15 years' experience in the UK trade and academic publishing industry. Whether you are an author, publishing house, academic or else, I can help you to ready your content for publication.
Starting in 2007 as a part-time freelancer during my leisure time, I took the plunge in 2016 and became self-employed on a full-time basis.
My professional expertise covers the following duties:
• peer-review management
• production coordination
• project management
• proofreading (digital & print in English, French and Portuguese)
• reader's report
• translation (English to French)
• typesetting
Subject areas include among others Education, History, French, Middle East, Travel Writing, Politics & International Relations, Business, Technical Engineering.
Fees are negotiated on a per-project basis.
For a detailed CV, please click on the 'Experience' tab of this website.
The works displayed in the portfolio are from 2019 onwards. For an exhaustive list of my freelance works between now and 2007, please visit my portfolio: https://goo.gl/photos/gUqSLE5zZLQ7a6V86
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite
InDesign
• Typesetting books, catalogues and flyers
• Creating styles and templates from scratch, following a brief or based on predefined styles
• Generating print-ready PDFs with press quality settings on
Expert
Acrobat Pro
• Amending text and images using advanced editing tools directly in unlocked PDFs
• Tagging PDF files with comments and queries
• Transforming Adobe PDF files into ebooks and slide presentations
• Combining PDF files to reveal text amendments
• Extracting, replacing, adding pages to PDF files
Expert
Photoshop
• Optimising images for press
• Tweaking images
• Manipulating and amending scanned or PDF text
Advanced
Illustrator
• Converting graphs, timelines and other numerical-type of illustrations (png, excel or pdf files) into high-quality eps files
• Drawing maps and graphs from screen grabs, pictures or scans
• Designing logos and banners
Advanced
Microsoft Office
Word
• Formatting layouts using styles and templates
• Using track changes and including comments and queries
• Compiling mathematical formulas, table of contents, indexes, glossary
• Comparing and merging Word documents
Expert
Excel,
• Creating production planning schedules and budget tracking spreadsheets
• Generating graphs
Intermediate
Powerpoint
• Designing dynamic presentations
Intermediate
Web Tools
Wordpress, Blogger
http://lestitchenfolie.blogspot.co.uk
• Writing posts as regularly as possible
• Branding by designing bespoke banner/logo and web layout using HTML or template
• Retouching/refocusing, optimising pictures to improve fast streaming
Good
Google Analytics, Statcounter
• Analysing followers flow data using Statcounter and Google Analytics
• Increasing blog visibility by participating in forums, tagging keywords, linking to other social websites
Book Publishing History, Editorial/Management, Marketing/Bookshop/eBook, Design (InDesign layout), Printing Processes, Copyediting-Proofreading, Cultural Affairs and Book Events