THE EDIT SUITE

CONTACT DETAILS

Name
Jonathan Hayward

Location
London

Telephone
0207-354-1311

E-mail
literaryed@aol.com

SERVICES PROVIDED

  • Collating and Checking Revises
  • Copy-editing
  • Copywriting
  • Corporate Training Manuals
  • Editing
  • Fact-checking
  • HTML Document Editing
  • Indexing
  • Localization
  • Newsletters
  • On-screen Editing
  • Press Releases
  • Project Appraisals/Evaluations
  • Project Management
  • Promotional Literature
  • Proofreading
  • Proofreading Translated Copy
  • Reference Editing
  • Research
  • Technical Editing
  • Transcription
  • Web Development
  • Web Page Checking
  • Web Editing
  • Wordprocessing

 FEES

  • Vary according to the job, whether simple proofreads, light copy-edits or complex edits. I have a fast page/hour rate, so can offer economical as well as high quality services.

EXPERIENCE

  • I am a Freelance Editorial Consultant with over 10 years' wide-ranging editorial experience, gained working for leading trade and academic book publishers, including 5 years in-house
  • Formerly an Editor at Virgin Publishing, a Senior Editor at educational publishers Laurence King Publishing, and an Editor at literary house Constable
  • Current freelance clients include general publishers such as Random House, HarperCollins and Serpent's Tail, and academic publishers such as Verso
  • Excellent all-round editing skills, with many acknowledgements for editing, rewriting and sub-editing
  • Wide experience of project managing highly illustrated work from manuscript to ozalid
  • Freelance manuscript reader (fiction and non-fiction) for diverse general publishers
  • Previously a Web Editor at City University. Developed and built key intranet and internet sites
  • Fast, economical and friendly services
  • No job too big or too small!

SUBJECTS

General non-fiction: Extensive editing, copy-editing and proofreading experience in a broad range of areas, including architecture, art history, autobiography, biography/memoirs, collectables, film, guides, health, history, lifestyle, media studies, music, popular culture, and travel. I have worked with many authors well-known in their fields.

Fiction: A specialism, as I have edited and copy-edited fiction by award-winning authors for Constable, Serpent's Tail and Hutchinson, and possess an MA in The Novel from the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Social Sciences and Economics: I have also worked in these subjects for Verso and the Cambridge University Press, drawing on my 2.1 in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge, and 2.1 in my Part 1 Economics.

All subjects: List of titles I have edited and sub-edited available on request.

THE EDIT SUITE


The site for freelance proofreaders: copy editing, proof reading and writers.