Services

WHAT I OFFER

With over 20 years’ professional experience as both a writer and book editor, I can offer expert help with producing written content that really does the job – whether that’s to engage, to promote or to entertain. Whichever hat I’m wearing, I maintain a friendly yet rigorous focus on excellence, and genuinely enjoy helping make sense of ideas, and finding the best way to express them. All of the following services can be quoted at fixed cost:

– Writing services –

> For clients in the non-profit, museum and visual arts sectors:

Creative written content: researching and writing text for websites, books, exhibitions, etc.

> For commercial clients:

Messaging audit: helping individuals and companies identify the unique value of what they do, and how to communicate it more effectively

Promotional content: strategically effective text for commercial websites, rebrands and pitch decks, etc.

– Editing services –

> For both new and established authors:

Manuscript assessment: I read your text with a friendly critical eye, and then write a detailed editorial report that includes actionable points for moving forwards – a good way to find out whether your text is ready to approach UK agents

Full developmental edit: I do a detailed edit on your text chapter by chapter, to improve plot, expression, coherence, consistency, etc.

Sample assessment: a lower-cost way to get a feel for what is and isn’t working in your text

Sample developmental edit: a detailed edit on an excerpt of your text, which shows you how a full developmental edit will help improve the complete manuscript

Line and copy editing: after any content work is finished, an edit to ensure all sentence-level details are sorted, and that the text reads really well

I am based in Norwich.

> More on my work as writer, and as a book editor