Open for submissions

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Summer's over and it's back to work.

I'm a qualified journalist with a first and master's degree as well. I've extensive experience in writing and editing, in journalism, public relations, communications, press offices, and corporate work.

I currently work as a freelance editor on fiction and non-fiction. In fiction, I tend to specialise in memoirs, fantasy, dystopia, futuristic fiction and crime. I am open to most genres apart from books involving gratuitous violence against women, children and animals.

A sample edit of a few pages is provided free.

Full edits cost from £100 (euro/dollar exchange rate set at time of transaction, eg $130 US, $175 Aus and Canadian, $180 NZ) depending on page length, and work required.

This can include, for example, any or all of the following, depending on the author’s requirements:

comments on overall structure and areas of strengths and weaknesses
suggested rewrites of individual sections of prose
identifying repetition and plot holes
tightening dialogue and removing unnecessary ‘tags’ (eg he chuckled)
highlighting clichés
suggesting alternatives to overuse of passive verbs and gerunds/participles
correcting inconsistent tenses, punctuation, compound words and hyphenation, possessive nouns, use of apostrophes, capitalisation, and spelling
plus liaison with the author, factual checking etc and a number of final proofreads

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Edited to lower the international prices due to the current exchange rate.