Mrs Joanna Chisholm |
- Website
- wordsense.co.uk
- Organisation
- Mrs J M Chisholm Trading as Wordsense
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Joanna
Web
http://www.wordsense.co.uk/
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I am an editor, proofreader and typesetter who offers a reliable, efficient and friendly service and who has a City & Guilds Licentiateship Award in Editorial Skills. I am equally comfortable handling any or all editorial, design and typesetting tasks involved in producing an illustrated or unillustrated book, magazine or brochure, from delivery by an author through to PDFs. Gardening and sports books as well as biographies are my main specialities. Bestsellers on which I have worked include World Atlas of Golf (Hamlyn) and the RHS A–Z Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers.
For further information please visit my website, or ring for a preliminary chat.
Recent clients
- Frances Lincoln
- Dorling Kindersley
- Simon & Schuster
- Octopus Books
Subjects
Biography/autobiography/memoirs, childcare, cookery, crafts (woodwork), current affairs, DIY, gardening/horticulture, geography, history, humanities/social sciences, politics/government, sports (general, cricket, cycling, football, golf, skiing, tennis, walking, winter), tourism/travel, transport (general, history, rail)
Experience
- Freelance since 1981
- Editor/senior editor, Mitchell Beazley, 1976–81; editor, Almark Publishing, 1975–76; assistant editor, Eyre Methuen, 1971–75
Qualifications and awards
City & Guilds Licentiateship Award in Editorial Skills (2008)
SfEP registered proofreader, SfEP registered copy-editor (1996), NVQ Book Editing Level 3 Units 1, 2 & 4 (1994)
Recent training
- SfEP mini-conference, Edinburgh 2017
- Efficient copy-editing (SfEP) 2016
- Introduction to web editorial skills (SfEP) 2015
- SfEP conference, London 2014
- Making ebooks in InDesign (Publishing Scotland) 2013
- eBook publishing: Essentials (Tidalfire) 2011
- Maintaining pix quality with CS4 (Publishing Scotland) 2011
- SfEP conference, Glasgow 2010
- Creating ePubs with InDesign (Publishing Scotland) 2010
- Digital workflow (Publishing Scotland) 2010
- Writing for the web (Publishing Scotland) 2009
- Adobe CS3 InDesign level 2 (Tidalfire) 2009
Media
Books, company literature, dictionaries, directories/yearbooks, educational materials, encyclopaedias, illustrated books, journals, magazines, manuals, newsletters, travel guides, online materials, websites
testimonials
“You’ve been an absolute star, and I am immensely grateful to you, again and as ever. The standard of your work is tremendous and you’re completely unflappable.”
Helen Griffin, Editorial director, Frances Lincoln Publishers
“We were very pleased with the job you did for us. Despite the late-running schedule you pulled out all the stops to edit the book swiftly and efficiently, managing to resolve all outstanding queries before the deadline.”
Leanne Bryan, Senior editor, Mitchell Beazley
“As to feedback, it can only be excellent. Thanks so much for turning round everything so quickly and with such attention to detail. You saved the day, Joanna.”
Esther Ripley, Managing editor, DK Culture, Dorling Kindersley Adult Division
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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.