Professional memberships
Irish Food Writers’ Guild (current chair)
Educational qualifications
BA with Honours in English and Creative Writing
Experience
Twenty years’ experience as an in-house and freelance editor and writer, specialising in cookbooks and educational publishing
Services offered
Project management, copy-editing and proofreading, including structural editing, ghostwriting and/or collaboration, Word template formatting, photo research, artwork briefs, copyright clearance, Plain English rewriting and magazine subediting. I specialise in recipe writing, recipe conversions for the US or UK markets and recipe development and testing.
Media
Books, magazines, recipes
Subject areas
Cookbooks, food, educational publishing, general interest
Clients include
Penguin Random House; Octopus Publishing; Gill Books; Educational Company of Ireland; Folens; CJ Fallon; SuperValu; Collins Press; Mercier Press; Eurofound
Examples of work undertaken
Cookery and food: Neven Maguire’s Home Economics for Life (Gill Books, 2018); Doctor on a Diet (Gill Books, 2018 – collaboration); Vegan-ish (Gill Books, 2018); Venice: Four Seasons of Home Cooking (Penguin, 2018); Half Hour Hero (Penguin, 2017); Cook Slow (Octopus, 2017); The Cookery School Donnybrook Fair (Mercier Press, 2017); Dingle Dinners: From the Chefs of Ireland’s #1 Foodie Town (Collins Press, 2017); subeditor for SuperValu’s Fresh and Uncorked magazines.
Education: #eatplanlive Junior Cycle Home Economics (Edco, 2018); History in Focus for the Junior Cycle (CJ Fallon, 2018); My Life Junior Cycle SPHE (Folens, 2018); Appreciating Art (Gill Books, 2018).
General interest: The Rob Lipsett Game Plan (Penguin, 2018 – collaboration); Beamish & Crawford: The Story of an Irish Brewery (Collins Press, 2015).
Additional information
I am the co-author of Saturday Pizzas at the Ballymaloe Cookery School (Ryland Peters & Small, 2017) and Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider (New Island, 2014). I am also the current chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild.