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Emma Dunne

Based in: Dublin

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Educational qualifications

BA (Hons) English and History of Art

Experience

I have many years of editing and proofreading experience, both in-house – as managing editor of New Island – and freelance.

Services offered

Proofreading, copy-editing, manuscript critiques, reader’s reports, structural editing, developmental editing

Subject areas

Fiction, narrative non-fiction, children’s, young adult, crime, cookery, history, biography, art

Clients include

Atlantic Books, Children’s Books Ireland, Gill Books, Hachette Ireland, Hachette UK, Lisa Richards Agency, Little Island Books, Mentor Books, Mercier Press, New Island Books, The O’Brien Press, various independent authors

Examples of work undertaken

Non-fiction
Dermot Whelan, Mind Full?, Gill Books, 2021 (editing)
Daniella Moyles, Jump and Jump Start Workbook, Gill Books, 2020/21 (editing)
Ellen Coyne, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Ellen, Gill Books, 2020 (editing)
John Creedon, That Place We Call Home, Gill Books, 2020 (proofreading)
Michael Harding, Chest Pain, Hachette Ireland, 2019 (proofreading)
Butlers, The Butlers Chocolate Cookbook, The O’Brien Press, 2019 (editing)
Gleason, Burren Dinners, The O’Brien Press, 2019 (editing)

Children’s
Jarlath Gregory, What Love Looks Like, The O’Brien Press, 2021 (editing)
Jason Byrne, The Accidental Adventures of Onion O’Brien: The Secret Scientist and The Great Ape Escape, Gill Books, 2018/20 (editing)
Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply, Little Island, 2020 (proofreading)
Darragh McCullough, The Great Irish Farm Book, Gill Books, 2020 (editing)
Lindsay J. Sedgwick, Wulfie: Stage Fright, Little Island, 2020  (editing)
Meg Grehan, The Deepest Breath, Little Island Books, 2019 (proofreading)

Fiction
Laura Vaughan, The Favour, Corvus, 2021 (editing)
Sophie White, Unfiltered, Hachette Ireland, 2020 (proofreading)
Lisa McGee, Erin’s Diary: An Official Derry Girls Book, Hachette UK, 2020 (proofreading)
Christobel Kent, The Viper, Atlantic Books, 2020 (editing)
Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Narrow Land, Atlantic Books, 2019 (editing)
Blindboy Boatclub, Boulevard Wren and Other Stories, Gill Books, 2019 (editing)
Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling and The Importance of Being Aisling, Gill Books, 2018/19 (editing)

Additional information

I work with publishers, with authors preparing to submit their work to publishers and with independently published authors.

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