Ms Charlotte Norman | Fiction editor and proofreader
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Charlotte
Media
- Books
- Company literature
Qualifications and awards
- BA (Hons) Italian and French
Experience
- Freelance since June 2011
- 6 years in publishing sales (Penguin Group, David & Charles, Sutton Publishing)
- 25 years in retail bookselling (4 years as Children's regional support manager)
- Regular reviewer for Waterstones
Training
- CIEP fiction editing course 2020
- Fiction editing (Golden Egg Academy) 2017
- Copy-editing – merit (Publishing Training Centre) 2015
- Advanced proofreading (PTC) 2012
- On-screen editing 1 (CIEP) 2011
- Proofreading mentoring (CIEP) 2011
- Proofreading problems (CIEP) 2011
- Basic proofreading by distance learning – distinction (PTC) 2010
Clients
Proofreading/copy-editing clients
- Bonnier
- Bloomsbury
- Chicken House
- Constable & Robinson
- David Paul Press
- Fairlight
- Firefly
- Hachette
- Honford Star
- Hot Key
- Little, Brown
- Oneworld
- School of Life
- Unbound
- Cartier
- Chanel
- Roger Dubuis
- blu inc.
- First Light Communications
Foreign language proofreading and translation clients
- Datawords
Copywriting clients
- Mothercare
- thelifestyleexplorer.com
- Chloé
Subjects
- Fiction: young adult, literary, general, crime Italian, French
- Children's books: fiction, relationships, children's issues
- Fashion, jewellery and watchmaking
Featured
I have forty years' experience of the book trade and and have extensive knowledge of current publishing and trends, especially relating to fiction. I am also fluent in Italian and French.
testimonials
- Your notes were really useful and I've taken on board everything you suggested. I am most definitely a happy and loyal customer!
- Your proofreading was great! Thank you very much. You were admirably thorough and followed the guidelines exactly. Your comments were clear.
- It all looks good. Thank you too for the additional comments regarding the sense; they are very helpful and I'll be going through them later this week.
- I found your notes to be really pertinent and helpful. Thank you so much for your hard work on what was clearly a tricky text.
- Thanks so much for this – the same mistake has been printed in 3 editions.
- Thank you for your comments and your sharp eye.
- Many thanks indeed for sending this through and for clearly having done such a thorough job; you are a professional to the nth degree, which is great.
Disclaimer note
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