A top-quality service
- enjoys a repeat-client rate of 85% (2023)
- is always reliable, flexible and friendly
- keeps to budget
- always meets scheduled deadlines
- delivers work tailored to the client’s brief
- provides a sound knowledge of good, logical and fluent English
- pays close attention to detail
Very experienced worker
- Joanna worked in-house for 10 years as a junior then senior editor
- has run her own editing business since 1981
- dealt with more than 2,500 books, journals, partworks, catalogues, websites, etc.
- edited books on a wide range of non-fiction, from instruction manuals to encyclopedias, politics and transport history to popular biographies and academic tomes, and profiles of dramatists to sports and gardening books
- designed and typeset academic books, novels, memoires, histories and brochures
- project managed single-author and multi-contributor books as well as several books in the same series
Good professional qualifications
- City & Guilds Licentiateship in Editorial Skills, 2008
- Advanced Professional member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), 1996
- Book Editing Level 3 National Vocational Qualification, 1994
A wide range of computer software
- for efficient editing of raw text so that it is consistent and in the style required by the client, Joanna uses Microsoft Word style palettes
- for page layout, she uses Adobe Indesign
- for image retouching, Joanna uses Affinity Photo
- for making queries easy for authors to identify and deal with, she uses Foxit PDF Reader
Believes in the importance of CPD
- attends professional training courses
- regularly partakes in professional conferences and workshops
- participates in professional editing discussion groups
- belongs to professional support groups for the main software used
