I like to say I was born with a pen in my hand. It’s nearly true. I was brought up bilingual and the conversation in my house when I was a child came back to words so often that we kept a dictionary on the dining table for reference during mealtime arguments.

I’m the author of 14 non-fiction books, for children and adults, and I learnt editing and proofreading the hard way: reading the proofs of my own books.

Since then, I have worked on books, papers and articles too many to count, for clients all over the world too many to mention.

I have also:

• given support in literacy, including teaching English grammar and usage, to students at further education colleges
• taught editing to graduates on a Professional Diploma in Publishing course
• devised, led and taught the only Editing and Proofreading course at a further education college in the UK
• taught trainee teachers in the final year of their course, setting and marking their written assignments.
• been a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire

I am:

• Principal Editor at Global Century Press
• a remote editor for www.scribendi.com, a Canadian-based editing and proofreading service.
• a book editor at Reedsy.com

Above all, I am:

• sensitive to your editorial and writing needs, painstaking, thorough, fast and always giving of my best to create the best outcome for you, as my clients’ testimonials will verify.
• fun to work with
• very good at the job

Oh, and I have a pet White-shouldered Peahen called Poppy and a Silkie chicken called Sylvie.