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