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McKeever-Susan

Susan McKeever

Based in: Portobello, Dublin 8

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Professional memberships

Children’s Books Ireland (Individual Membership)

Educational qualifications

BA (Hons) English and Greek and Roman Civilisation, UCD

Training and professional development

Rewriting and Substantive Editing, Publishing Training Centre, 2018;
Styling Templates in Word, IACT, 2017
Fiction Editing, Publishing Ireland, 2013

Languages

French (proficient)

Experience

Thirty years’ editorial experience in the UK, USA and Ireland.
Gaia Books, London: Editor
Dorling Kindersley Ltd., London: Project editor, Senior editor, Writer
Scholastic Inc., Palo Alto, CA: Managing editor, Interactive Reference

2008 to date: Freelance editor, Dublin

Services offered

Copy-editing, proofreading, rewriting and substantive editing, ghostwriting, project management, review writing, reading

Media

Cookbooks, memoirs, sports and health, educational books in all subjects but especially history and English, children’s fiction and non-fiction

Subject areas

Health and fitness, cookery, history, natural history, fiction, education, children’s

Clients include

Gill Books, Gill Education, Folens Publishers, Penguin, Hachette, Vermilion, Dublin City Council, New Island

Examples of work undertaken

Lee, Marianne, A Quiet Tide, (New Island, 2020, editor), Woolmer, Annabel, The Tickle Fingers Kids’ Cookbook (Vermilion London, 2019, project editor); Davey, Daniel, Eat Up Raise Your Game (Gill Books, 2019, editor); Keogh & Kavanagh, Cornucopia The Green Cookbook (Gill Books, 2019, copy-editor); Lipsett, The Rob Lipsett Game Plan (Penguin, 2019, editor/writing consultant); Kavanagh & Murray, The Currabinny Cookbook (Penguin Ireland, 2018, recipe editor) Winner of An Post Cookbook of the Year Award; Flynn, David & Stephen, The Happy Pear Recipes for Happiness (Penguin Ireland, 2018, recipe editor); O’Donoghue, Adventures in Philosophy (Gill Books, 2018, copy-editor); James, A Sense of Home (Hachette, 2017, editor); Chambers & Lewis, Junior Certificate English for First Year: Step Up! (Folens, 2014, editor); Parker, Discover More: Ocean and Sea (Scholastic, 2012, editor); Fahey & Geoghegan-Treacy, Leaving Certificate: History and Appreciation of Art (Folens, 2011, editor).

Additional information

Reviewer for Children’s Books Ireland (Inis Magazine and Recommended Reads), Dublin Review of Books and Books Ireland Magazine

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