Alicia McAuley
Trading as: Alicia McAuley Publishing Services
Based in: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Professional memberships
SfEP (Professional Member); EPANI
Educational qualifications
MPhil Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College Dublin
BA (Hons) English Studies, Trinity College Dublin
CELTA, Belfast Metropolitan College
Training and professional development
Editing Fiction (PTC, 2019)
Practical Mark-up of PDFs (SfEP, 2017)
Editing in Word (PTC, 2015)
Brush Up Your Grammar (SfEP, 2012)
Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning (Pass with Distinction) (PTC, 2005)
Languages
Irish (B2), French (C1), Hindi/Urdu (A2)
Experience
Freelance since 2006. Previously in-house editor/typesetter, Wordwell Books.
Services offered
Editing, copy-editing, proofreading, book design, typesetting, indexing, ebook production, rewriting, copywriting, readers’ reports, research
Subject areas
History, education (especially ESOL/EFL), Irish language, biography/memoir, fiction (including literary fiction)
Clients include
Cambridge University Press; Educational Company of Ireland; Folens; CJ Fallon; Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; Irish Pages; Blackstaff Press; Colourpoint Books; Éditions du Signe; self-publishing authors
Examples of work undertaken
Petticoat Pilots: Biographies and Achievements of Irish Female Aviators, 1909–1939 (Michael Traynor, 2019); B1 Preliminary (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Brú na Bóinne visitor centre (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, 2019); A Return to Duty (Clodagh Dunlop/Colourpoint, 2019); The Long Now (Sam Burnside, 2019); Baubella picture-book series (Baubella, 2019); Gaeilge Abú (Folens, 2019); (En)Quête de Jésus (Éditions du Signe, 2019); CNS Journal (Oruen, 2018); Irish Grammar 6 (Educational Company of Ireland, 2018)