OUTSOURCE YOUR EDITING WORK AND ONLY PAY FOR THE RESULT.
Do you wish to produce a book/ebook, update your website, connect it to social media, translate your business documents, newsletters or your CV?
Whether you are an author, publishing house, business, student, academic or an individual, look no further!
With over 10 years experience in the UK publishing industry, I can help you. A fast and available freelancer, I am always on the look out for new opportunities. Do not hesitate to contact me.
An occasional freelancer since 2007, I became fully self-employed in April 2016.
My professional expertise covers the following duties:
- project management
- copy-writing (digital & print)
- copy-editing/proofreading (digital & print)
- translating English to French
- typesetting
- reader's report
Subject areas include among others French, History, Education, Middle East, Travel Writing, Politics & International Relations, Business, Technical Engineering.
Clients include:
- American University of Cairo
- Biteback Publishing
- Bourchier Ltd
- Boydell & Brewer
- Brilliant Publications
- Eland Publishers
- Hermes Science Publishing
- Icon Books
- ISTE Editions
- UCL IOE Press
- Wiley-ISTE
Fees are negotiated on a per-project basis.
For an exhaustive list of my freelance works between now and 2007, please visit my portfolio on Google+: https://goo.gl/photos/gUqSLE5zZLQ7a6V86
The works display on this website's portfolio are from 2016 onwards.
Controlling quality of 150 titles/year: ensuring content is standard to and in tone with house style/industry standard, checking for plagiarism, copyediting and proofreading all 150 books (Adobe Acrobat Pro and on paper)
Budgeting: tracking variance to budget performance, negotiating suppliers' fees, monitoring suppliers' payments and follow-ups
Scheduling: implementing production planning spreadsheet, updating internal project management database
Managing workforce and authors: briefing every project, outsourcing UK and Indian-based suppliers, tracking the production planner and chasing-up when delays, mediating between the supplier and the author, recruiting new suppliers, answering authors and suppliers’ queries
Designing: typesetting ebooks and layouts (Adobe InDesign), enhancing pictures quality (Adobe Photoshop), drawing book series logos and internal maps (Adobe Illustrator)
Building up publisher's list of titles on 3-year forecast
Reading and evaluating book proposals and manuscripts submitted by authors and agents, and assessing their suitability for the list
Contracting electronic and book publication rights
Releasing up to 10 packaging and text handovers/month to production: assessing manuscript content and image quality control, liaising with external suppliers and authors
• 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
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
Photoshop
• Optimising images for press
• Tweaking images
• Manipulating and amending scanned or PDF text
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
• 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
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
• 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
Excel,
• Creating production planning schedules and budget tracking spreadsheets
• Generating graphs
