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, working with a variety of national and international publishers.
Services offered
Copy-editing, proofreading, rewriting and substantive editing, ghostwriting, project management, review writing.
Media
Books, journals, websites
Subject areas
Health and fitness, lifestyle, sport, cookery, history, natural history, fiction, education, children’s
Clients include
Dorling Kindersley Ltd, Watkins, Lilliput Press, Gill Books, Penguin, Hachette, New Island, Mercier Press
Examples of work undertaken
Hawke, Brett, Science of Swimming, (Dorling Kindersley, 2024, project editor); Adelman, Juliana, The Grateful Water, (New Island, 2024, editor); Igoe, Vivian & Nicholson, Robert, Tales from the Tower, (Martello Publishing, 2023, editor); Binchy, Sarah (ed.), Sunday Miscellany, A Selection 2028–2023, (New Island, 2023, copy-editor); Malek, Leada, Science of Stretch, (Dorling Kindersley 2023, project editor); Ward, Tracy, Science of Pilates, (Dorling Kindersley 2022, project editor); Carson, Jan & Lugea, Jane (eds.), A Little Unsteadily Into Light, (New Island, 2022, editor); Smith, Ronan, If Memory Serves me Wrong (New Island, 2021, editor); McKenna, Laura, Words to Shape My Name, (New Island, 2021, editor); 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, Brendan, Adventures in Philosophy (Gill Books, 2018, copy-editor); James, Helen, A Sense of Home (Hachette, 2017, editor).
Additional information
Reviewer for Dublin Review of Books and Books Ireland Magazine