Ms Miranda Harrison |
- [email protected]
- Website
- https://www.wlcreative.co.uk/
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Miranda
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Extremely experienced within arts publishing – from high-profile museum exhibition catalogues to guide books, and living artists' monographs to art history titles. Popular culture, arts and crafts, photography, performance and fashion – as well as illustrated non-fiction for children – are also areas in which I have many years of experience.
Key skills include developing texts with inexperienced authors, resolving complex multi-author texts and ensuring a text is reaching the target audience.
Much of my in-house career has entailed project managing illustrated books, liaising closely with editors, designers, picture researchers, proofreaders, indexers, repro houses and printers. I currently provide project management services on a freelance basis alongside editorial work.
Media
1. Books
2. Illustrated books
3. Multi-author books
4. Magazines
5. Newsletters
6. Company literature
Experience
Full-time in-house editorial career: The Good Book Guide (Editorial Assistant), Yale University Press (Production Editor), V&A Publications (Managing Editor), Scala Publishing (Editorial Director)
Part-time / short-term in-house contracts: Lund Humphries (Head of Editorial and Production), Tate Publishing (Managing Editor), British Library Publishing (Project Editor), IWM Publishing (Special Projects Manager), HENI Publishing (Senior Editor), Vendome Press (Managing Editor), English Heritage Publishing (Development Editor)
Most recent in-house roles:
Job title: Development Editor
Company: English Heritage Publishing
Dates: 2024– (in-house freelance contract)
Job title: Managing Editor
Company: Vendome Press
Dates: 2022–2023 (6-month full-time contract)
Job title: Senior Editor
Company: HENI Publishing
Dates: 2020–2022 (in-house freelance contract)
Job title: Guide Books Editor/Special Projects Manager
Company: IWM Publishing
Dates: 2014–2020 (part-time role, 2 days a week)
Job title: Project Editor
Company: British Library Publishing
Dates: 2016–2017 (1 year contract, 3 days a week)
Job title: Managing Editor
Company: Tate Publishing
Dates: 2013–2014 (full-time maternity cover)
Training
- Introduction to e-book Production (PTC): 2024
- Adobe Tools for Editors (PTC): 2020
- Editing Digital Content (CIEP): 2020
- Audience-Centric Book Marketing (BookMachine): 2020
- Cashflow for Freelances (FEU): 2019
- Adlib Training: Searching and Exporting Skills (IWM): 2017
- Editing in Word (PTC): 2013
- InDesign for Editors Making Transition from Quark (MBT): 2010
- Assessing Digital Images (Imago): 2007
- Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing (West Herts College): 1990
Clients
Publishing companies include:
- Yale University Press, Lund Humphries, Phaidon, Thames & Hudson, HENI Publishing, David & Charles, Dan Giles Ltd., Goliga Books, Artifice Press, BBC Books, Ebury, Essential Works
Museums and other cultural institutions include:
- English Heritage, Imperial War Museum, British Library, Bodleian Libraries, British Museum, Royal Collection, Kettle's Yard, V&A, Thomas Williams Fine Art, DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport), Pallant House Gallery
Subjects
Architecture (history of)
Art (artists' monographs, catalogue raisonnés, general introductions)
Art history (medieval to contemporary)
Aviation (Editor of Duxford air show programmes for 5 years)
Children's (non-fiction)
Crafts (history of, 'how-to' guides)
Design (graphic, contemporary, history of, interior)
History (general level; particular knowledge of First and Second World Wars)
Humour (irreverent gift books)
Performance (training, academic studies, practitioner guides).
Qualifications
Two-year Diploma in Acting (LSDA)
Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing (West Herts College)
History of Art BA (University of Manchester)
Specialised software
InDesign
Adobe Acrobat Professional
Photoshop
Adobe Bridge
QuarkXPress
Testimonials
JS, artist: I am eternally grateful to Miranda Harrison for stepping in when we began to flounder at the complexity of the undertaking – this book would have been impossible without her impressive editorial skills and keen eye.
AB, author: The editor and project manager, Miranda Harrison, made numerous and relevant suggestions so that my work would be accessible to the largest possible audience. I appreciated her professionalism, her quest for quality, her calm, and her ability to have us all work in unison.
ME, Managing Director: Miranda was a brilliant editor and project manager on the Ceramics volume.
TW, author: Thank you so much for your amazing work and patience!
SC, author: I am indebted to Miranda Harrison, copy-editor, for her skilful and intelligent handling of the project
Service(s)
Specialisms
Disclaimer note
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