Proofreading for publishers
I love proofreading books!
My clients include Faber & Faber, The History Press, Orion Publishing, Pitch Publishing and Verso Books, and you can see some of my completed projects in my Portfolio. I am reliable, and capable of working to deadlines and following individual briefs carefully.
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Paper* or on-screen mark-up, using BS 5261-2:2005 marks or Adobe commenting tools
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Proofreading blind or against copy
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Colour coding
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Foot-/endnotes, references, bibliographies and indexes
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Comfortable working to a variety of house style guides as well as New Hart's Rules and the Chicago Manual of Style
*Please note that any expenses I incur in the course of a project, such as for printing and/or posting proofs, will be billed to the client.
My favourite subjects are classical music (my degree subject), history, sport, travel, wildlife, pets and politics (more information on the About Victoria page). Just to give you an idea, here are a few books I've read for pleasure:
History
John Ashdown-Hill, Cecily Neville
———, The Last Days of Richard III
Julia Baird, Victoria the Queen
Helen Castor, She-Wolves
Jeremy Dronfield, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
Antonia Fraser, The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Peter Fyans, Conjuror on the Kwai
John Guy, My Heart Is My Own
Christopher Hibbert, Cavaliers and Roundheads
———, The French Revolution
Robert Hutchinson, House of Treason
Anna Keay, The Last Royal Rebel
Paul Murray Kendall, Louis XI
———, Richard III
Matthew Lewis, The Survival of the Princes in the Tower
Walter Lord, A Night to Remember
Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Jane Robins, The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of
the Brides in the Bath
Stella Tillyard, A Royal Affair
Ann Wroe, Perkin
Music
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, House of Music
Sport
Neil Harman, Close Quarters
Travel & Wildlife
David Attenborough, Zoo Quest to Madagascar
Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons
Pets
Pen Farthing, One Dog at a Time
Damien Lewis, Judy
Mikael Lindnord, Arthur
Politics
Marta Andreasen, Brussels Laid Bare
Nigel Farage, The Purple Revolution