Seller 273398

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Seller 273398 - Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

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£26.44

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Overview:

Skilled writer for adults and children, in a variety of media.
Experienced editor and project manager in academic and commercial editing.
Excellent communication skills.

: Hourly rate shown includes a discount of 15% for registered charities.

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CV

Writer and editor with over 15 years publishing experience, as an editorial project manager, researcher, writer, editor, proof reader, commissioning writers, designers, illustrators and print.
Specialises in creating reader-friendly text for a general readership - adults or children.
Works with academic and trade books, leaflets, web content, children's comics and educational publications.
At home working with high-level academic and easy-to-read generalist text.

Employment History

(2005 & ongoing)

Managing content editor and content contributor

On submitting text I’d researched and written, I was asked to ‘make them all sound like yours’. Editorial management of 10 themed visitor guides. Liaison with contributing writers and researchers, designer and project manager to produce accurate user-friendly guides in the voice I developed. Substantial rewriting, additional research. Writing and editing walking routes for adults; initiating and delivering illustrated children’s route-based activity sheets.

(ongoing)

Content developer and project manager

Creation and design of content for history and archaeology themed children’s educational comics. Creating age-appropriate national curriculum-related fun comic content – stories, activities and jokes – from technical reports and artifact collections. Frame-by-frame briefing of artists and subsequent liaison. Overall project management of each edition.

Clients include:
Doncaster Museums Service: The Romans are Coming!; Warwick County Council: Buried under Bidford (concerning Romano-British Bidford and Alcester region); Gunpowder Plot (with an emphasis on the Warwick connections); The Don Gorge Partnership: Positively Prehistoric! (Ice Age and early farming)

(2007 to 2008)

Freelance editorial project manager

Project managing, copy editing, proof-reading conference volumes by leading international scholars in the Gulbenkian Foundation’s State of the World cultural forum and conference series.

(Dec 1992 to Jan 2005)

Freelance editor

Project management, copy editing, proof-reading and substantial edits.
Trade books: including Mind, Body, Spirit; training and how to… volumes; popular history; popular health titles; travel and nature books; TV tie-ins.
Academic titles: conference volumes; literary readers/critical texts; feminist theory; archaeology; Biblical studies.
Clients have included: Carcanet, Church House Publishing, Greenwood USA, BBC Publications, Constable Robinson, Continuum, T&T Clark, Bridgewater Books, Action for Employment.
December 1992 – December 2003; January 2005 – current

(2005 to 2005)

Freelance

Freelance commissioning and editing of online educational materials: Commissioned 20 articles from international scholars for Greenwood USA’s online history database, Daily Life Through History, aimed at a general readership from 12 years up. Created the titles list, found and commissioned the authors, managed communications, edited content.

(1999 to 2001)

Production editor

Sheffield Academic Press

Editorial management of tertiary level academic journals, monographs and edited collections by international scholars from manuscript to print, managing schedules and freelancers, liaising with authors, collection and journal editors, typesetters and designers.

(Feb 1999 to Aug 1999)

Freelance commercial writer

Telecom plus PLC

Rewriting corporate product and training literature, enabling a company to shift its voice and image. Commission of the design and printing.

Education

(Nov 1995 to Jun 1996)

Sheffield Hallam University

Postgraduate Certificate in TESOL Distinction

(Oct 1987 to Jul 1991)

University of Sheffield

BA Hons Philosophy 2.1

Research Commissions

Audience development and community consultation: Delivered a county-wide consultation with major and small-scale statutory and non-statutory arts, education, community and heritage/history groups, as part of an audience development project for a South Yorkshire Archaeology Service funding bid for a long-term community outreach project.
Summer 2007.

Commissioned reports: The technology and ethical implications of virtual reality (1988); A feasibility study for a setting up a community nursery (1989); Creating and running a business in complementary health (1992); Evidence-based research in complementary health (2002).