Educational qualifications
BA (English & French literature), Trinity College Dublin (1987)
Experience
Editor of The Collins Press for eleven years; freelance since 2019.
Services offered
Copy-editing, developmental/structural editing, proofreading, plain English editing, typesetting, fiction and non-fiction
Media
Books
Subject areas
Non-fiction: Adventure/outdoor guides, arts & crafts, biography/memoir, cookery, exploration/travel, folklore, history, Irish interest, maritime, natural history, photography, rugby/sport, true crime
Fiction: literary fiction, middle-grade fiction, YA (fantasy and romance)
Clients include
- Battlebridge Press
- Boru Press
- Design & Crafts Council Ireland
- Gill Books
- Hachette
- The O’Brien Press
- Julian Vignoles (winner of Anthology Short Story competition 2021)
Examples of work undertaken
- Michael Smith & Dave Butler, Tom Crean: Irish Antarctic Hero (copy-editing, The O’Brien Press, 2025)
- Kevin Moran, The Doomsday Club (developmental edit and copy-editing, The O’Brien Press, 2024)
- John Scally, Together Standing Tall: 150 Years of Irish Rugby (proofreading, Gill Books, 2024)
- Amy Clarkin, What Walks These Halls (copy-editing, The O’Brien Press, 2023. Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year 2023 and the Yoto Carnegies 2023)
- Sandy Kelly, In My Own Words (copy-editing, The O’Brien Press 2023)
- Sarah Webb, The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street (proofreading, The O’Brien Press, 2021)
- Anne L. MacDonell, Glen Rowan (copy-editing and typesetting, Battlebridge Press, 2021)
- Lionel Cohen, Memoir of an Irish Jew (copy-editing, Cork City Libraries, 2021)
- Irish Craft Heroes (copy-editing, Design & Craft Council Ireland, 2021)
- Brian Fleming, The Lived Reality of Educational Disadvantage (copy-editing, production management; self-published, 2020)
- Helen Fairbairn, Ireland’s Adventure Bucket List (copy-editing, production management, The Collins Press, 2018)
- Trevis Gleason, Dingle Dinners (copy-editing, production management, The Collins Press, 2017)
- O’Sullivan & Wilson, Ireland’s Garden Birds (copy-editing, production management, The Collins Press, 2016)
Testimonials
‘We’re delighted with the high standard of your work.’ – Eleanor Flegg.
‘It has been an absolute pleasure having you as editor of my last five books. You are meticulous, prompt, unflappable and friendly in everything you do, with positive solutions wherever required. You improve the outcome of each project you’re involved in, and everybody working with you benefits from your positivity, organisation and attention to detail. I don’t know how you do it, but thank you – my books wouldn’t have been as good without you.’ – Helen Fairbairn, author of Ireland’s Adventure Bucket List, Ireland’s Best Walks, and walking guides to Dublin & Wicklow, Northern Ireland and Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.
‘When I submitted the final draft of my book to Paula Elmore I was acutely aware of its technical and presentational weaknesses. With a mixture of skill, insight, patience and outstanding professionalism she brought it up to the required standard for publication with great efficiency.’ – Dr Brian Fleming, author of The Vatican Pimpernel and The Lived Reality of Educational Disadvantage.