• Originally in the chemical industry and with an honours degree in science, I then had a successful career as teacher and school administrator, largely in European international schools, and ultimately as head of a small independent school near London.
  
  
• Since 1999, and after undertaking relevant training, I have worked at home as a freelance copy-editor and proofreader. Leaning at first towards scientific and technical material, I now have wide experience of many types of work including school, college and university texts, literature and critical prose, PhD theses, psychotherapy, and a certain amount of fiction.
  
  
• I am a full member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP).
  
  
• Regular or recent clients include:
  
  

  Macmillan Education
  Pearson Education
  Rail Romances (specialist publisher)
  Collins Education
  PCCS Books (psychotherapy)
  The Open University
  Trotman Publishing
  Young Digital Planet SA (Poland)

• An all-new computer set-up was purchased in December 2005, with 160GB hard drive, Windows XP, CD/DVD drive, up-to-date antivirus software and all the usual facilities.
  
  
• Work can be accepted on CD-ROM, 250mb zip disk, floppy disk, or by e-mail (I am on broadband).

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