Hetty Marx |
- [email protected]
- Website
- www.hettymarx.com
- Job title
- Development editor
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Hetty
I offer development editing, substantive editing and rewriting, market research and project management to educational publishers and authors. I have nearly 20 years of in-house and freelance publishing experience, including at top research and textbook publishing companies.
I have development edited several educational products including student textbooks, teacher guides and online resources, for school and university courses in the UK and internationally. I'm experienced at editing multi-component products, highly-illustated and feature-heavy texts, curriculum-matched and exam-board endorsed texts and digital content.
Products
- Student textbooks from school to undergraduate level, including exam-board endorsed texts for UK and international courses, undergraduate textbooks, illustrated and feature-heavy textbooks and enhanced ebooks.
- Multi-component products including teacher books, revision guides, online resources, lecture slides, exercises and answers, MCQs, worksheets and step-by-step instructions.
- Academic books, journal articles and multi-author handbooks.
- I am also very happy to consider projects like illustrated children's non-fiction.
Subjects
Experience editing subjects including psychology, economics, business studies, management, sociology, law, criminology, education, child development, linguistics and politics.
I am also happy to consider other subjects, including those related to my interests and hobbies: maths, German, photography, theatre, music (especially piano), travel, sewing, nature and gardening.
Clients
Clients include Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Collins, Routledge, SAGE, Pearson, CORE (Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics) Econ and University of Exeter Press.
Experience
Freelance since 2016
Commissioning Editor, Cambridge University Press, 2008–2016
Development Editor, Pearson Education, 2006–2008
Editorial Assistant, Pearson Education, 2004–2008
Training
Short courses including Macro workshop, Successful Freelancing, Essential Grammar, Word for Practical Editing, Editing Digital Content, Art of Querying (providers include CIEP, BookMachine, The Publishing Training Centre), 2019–2022
Rewriting and Substantive Editing (Non-Fiction) (The Publishing Training Centre), 2019
Managing Publishing Strategy (The Publishing Training Centre), 2010
Commissioning and List Management (The Publishing Training Centre), 2009
Advanced Certificate in Market and Social Research Practice (Market Research Society), 2008
In-house development editor training (Pearson Education), 2006
Qualifications
BA in Social and Political Sciences (Psychology), University of Cambridge
A Levels in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Psychology and Theatre Studies
Publications
I am author of Editing Textbooks, a practical guide for editors, published by the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading.
The CIEP has also published two guest blog posts that I have written on editing textbooks and editing in Google Docs.
Testimonials
"Hetty collaborated with us on one of our most high-profile Business textbooks: her work was simply excellent. Hetty’s expert editing skills helped us achieve a remarkable level of consistency and clarity across the chapters. It wasn’t a straightforward brief, but Hetty perfectly understood what we needed, worked independently requiring very little direction from us, and delivered the chapters to some very tight deadlines. Hetty is very communicative and was a pleasure to work with – I would certainly recommend her to both publishers and authors."
Nicola Hartley, Commissioning Editor, Oxford University Press
"Hetty is a joy to work with. She played a key role in the development and project management of an Economics coursebook and teacher's guide for the international market and delivered exactly what I needed at every stage. She is reliable, can be depended on to meet deadlines, is clear in her communication, highly organised, and has an excellent attention to detail. It was a complex project which involved working with a number of authors and editors working to tight schedules, and she remained calm and courteous to everyone throughout. She is responsible, thorough, and extremely conscientious about ensuring high quality content. I would highly recommend Hetty for any similar projects."
Lucy Cooper, Commissioning Editor, Collins Learning
"I collaborated with Hetty on a textbook project, the market for which is undergraduate students. Her work throughout was excellent – Hetty is methodical, thorough, professional, and calm in the face of unexpected challenges. Hetty effectively co-ordinated a large team of contributors, and worked closely with the academic editor of the book to ensure that each chapter met the requirements of the project brief, achieved the required level of consistency, and was completed before the agreed deadline. This involved hands-on editing of draft chapters which Hetty completed swiftly and which the contributors and editor found extremely valuable. Hetty’s level of engagement with the project and skill at working with academic authors was very impressive throughout."
Thomas Young, Senior Publishing Manager, Law, Oxford University Press
"I owe a huge debt to Hetty Marx for her close reading of my text combined with her finely honed ability to stand back from it and see just what additions and adjustments it needed. I also appreciate her gift for assimilating, organizing, and prioritizing different streams of information, for example different external reviews."
Susan Sugarman, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
"Thank you so much for getting the Handbook together for us. Keeping on top of the 200 chapters has been a mammoth task and I couldn't have done it without your help. I am really grateful for you keeping us on track."
Dr Carrie Llewellyn, Reader in Applied Behavioural Medicine, University of Sussex
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