Ms Antonia Maxwell
- Organisation
- Antonia Maxwell Editorial
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Antonia
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Antonia is an experienced editor, writer and tutor and an Advanced Professional Member of CIEP. With 30 years in book publishing, she provides a range of editorial services for both non-fiction and fiction. In her work for educational publishers, she specialises in Humanities and Creative Arts, Modern Languages, Business, Psychology, Marketing and Law. For trade publishers, she works on a wide range of subjects for commercial non-fiction. She is an industry development editor and copy-editor/proofreader for Cornerstones Literary Consultancy, specialising in children’s fiction, memoir, commercial fiction and narrative non-fiction. She writes for children and her debut middle-grade novel Terra Electrica publishes in 2024 with Neem Tree Press. As well as teaching editorial skills, she offers mentoring and manuscript development services to indie authors, and leads creative writing workshops and guest lectures on editing and writing.
Media
Books, illustrated books, educational materials, integrated media, multi-author books, online materials, digital first products, language course materials, distance-learning materials, travel guides, dictionaries.
Experience
Freelance since 1998; Managing Editor, Blandford Press, Cassell, 1996-98; Modern Languages Editor, CollinsEducational, HarperCollinsPublisher, 1993-96; Adult Education Tutor: copy-editing and proofreading, Hils Road College, Cambridge, 2012-13.
Clients
Pearson Education, (Higher and Professional)
John Murray Learning
Hachette
Hodder & Stoughton
Haremi
Just Content
Cornerstones Literary Consultancy
Newgen Publishing
Cengage
spi global
ooh publishing
Nelson Thornes
Heinemann
Cambridge University Press
Scholastic
Subjects
education (primary, secondary, further education, adult)
fiction and memoir
trade non-fiction across various subjects including:
business
law
psychology
languages (French, German, basic Spanish, English language)
literary studies
film
health
history
home and leisure
management and organisation/business
media studies
music
personal development
philosophy
politics/goverment
popular science (all subjects)
sport
tourism/travel
transport
Qualifications
BA French and German Joint Honours
testimonials
'Thank you to Antonia Maxwell (copy-editor), whose utter dedication and editorial wizardry helped to ensure the quality of this book'
Melina Costi, The Positive Leader: How Energy and Happiness Fuel Top-Performing Teams, (Pearson, 2016)
'The copyeditor was Antonia Maxwell. Not only is she better at spotting our mistakes than even we are at making them, she imposed the text design on our manuscript with great aplomb. This cannot be easy for a book like this with its many elements. Even more remarkable is her ability not to appear irritated by the authors when surely she must have been.'
Dennis Howitt, Research Methods in Psychology, 6e (Pearson, 2020)
Service(s)
Disclaimer note
The CIEP Directory of Editorial Services should be considered a point of first contact and prospective clients must satisfy themselves that members are capable of the work on offer. The Institute cannot be held responsible for the quality of work provided by any member listed in the directory. The members themselves are responsible for the maintenance and accuracy of their entries in the Directory and the CIEP has not made any attempt to vet them. The institute cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies in the Directory. Inclusion in the Directory as a freelance does not necessarily mean that the member is self-employed as defined by HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions.