Debbie is an editor and proofreader, specialising in books set in France, mysteries and thrillers, historical fiction, memoirs and web content.
She has twenty years’ experience in the world of web, thanks to previous roles at the University of Oxford, the International Baccalaureate and Cardiff University, and is passionate about passing on her web knowledge to fellow editors. She also offers mentoring sessions to provide editors with one-to-one feedback and advice on how to improve their site.
Debbie is the author of Improve Your Editor Website and Improve Your Author Website.
She has also written her own novel, a mystery set in the South of France, and is currently seeking representation.
When not editing or writing, Debbie can be found admiring beautiful stationery, watching French series on Netflix and forgetting dance moves in her gym class.
Lynn Fortin (she/her) worked in Canada and the UK as a school librarian and then as a director-level PA for private companies and in the public sector. Throughout this time, she developed her natural aptitude for copyediting and proofreading, which became increasingly important as she progressed through a variety of roles and organisations. She achieved Professional membership of the CIEP last year.
Lynn is now the part-time copyeditor and proofreader for Cambridge Mathematics, a division of Cambridge University Press & Assessment. She finds the variety of work very enjoyable – from a blog about, for instance, the fascinating history of Barbie and mathematics, to an academic research piece to be published in a peer-reviewed journal or a book of professional development resources for mathematics teachers. Her freelance work recently included copyediting a realist novel set in the immediate future, and she is currently copyediting a biographical family history.
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Dr Andrew Hodges (he/they) is a fiction editor who specialises in speculative fiction and literary fiction. They run an editorial business called The Narrative Craft and have expertise in worldbuilding and cultural considerations when crafting setting in stories.
Andrew lived and worked in Croatia from 2008–2018 as a cultural anthropologist. In 2019 they moved to Scotland and set up a fiction editing business. They copyedit young adult fiction for Penguin Random House USA and offer developmental and line editing to authors seeking a publisher or preparing to self-publish. Besides editing, they have published several academic non-fiction books, including on football fan politics and activism in Croatia, and are currently revising a YA fantasy novel. Andrew is an Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP, a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, and a member of the Society of Authors.
Katherine Kirk is a fiction editor who works with authors and publishers all over the world, primarily on science fiction and fantasy. She is a Professional Member of the CIEP and was also a panelist at the 2023 CIEP conference in Glasgow. Katherine enjoys working with game developers and fanzine publishers, especially on content for the Mutant Crawl Classics system. The biggest game she’s ever proofread had over 1,500 cards … in each of its five expansions.
When she’s not editing, she enjoys planning make-believe heists, roaming the post-apocalyptic wasteland with a sentient plant and a morally fuzzy wizard, and dipping her toes in dragon diplomacy. Don’t ask how many dice she owns.
Sue and Dom run leadership communication programmes for the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC). They both have wide experience of coaching and supporting leaders individually and in groups across a range of organisations.
Dom has worked in senior ‘in-house’ roles and as a coach and consultant in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US, supporting leadership teams across sectors. Recent clients include United Biscuits, H&M, Hampshire Fire and Rescue, Telia and Kier Group. He has also featured in print, podcast, TV and radio promoting effective leadership communication. He is a Fellow and president-elect of the IoIC.
Sue is an experienced executive and business coach. She specialises in culture change, business-aligned people strategies and employer branding. She also facilitates employee engagement, leadership and management behavioural development programmes. As well as having worked in senior HR in-house roles, her consulting clients include Computershare, Welsh Water, Westinghouse Rail and Crux Product Design.
Kate Nascimento is an Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP who edits fantasy and horror fiction for both traditional publishers and indie clients, as well as comics, graphic novels and all kinds of games. Recent projects include editing a huge Dungeons & Dragons expansion steeped in Celtic mythology and proofreading the English translation of a Japanese horror game for iOS and Android.
When she’s not editing, you can find her reading, writing, starting her hundredth playthrough of Skyrim on her PS5, or scheming on behalf of her D&D characters.
Christina gave up the office job and hectic London life to work as a digital nomad in September 2017. With a 15-year career in environmental consultancy, she began to retrain as a copyeditor and proofreader and joined the then SfEP. She eventually built up the courage and a skeleton client base to quit her day job, so swapped her high heels for her favourite trainers, strapped on her backpack and hit the road.
She has been called brave, intrepid, crazy and young-at-heart. All she knows is that she had had enough of commuting and being tied to the same desk with the same view. Since she began working on the road, the only place she hasn’t worked on is a boat.
Adam is originally from Manchester but has moved around often (he’s not very good at staying still). He has lived in the following places:
Adam has had over thirty jobs (he’s not a very loyal employee, either). He has been paid to do the following:
Ruth E. Thaler-Carter (www.writerruth.com) has been editing, proofreading and writing professionally since high school. Current editing clients/projects include a law firm, PR firm, retirement policy institute, women’s health organisation and independent authors; and publications about gardening, Porsche history, decorative arts, machine computing and weddings. She is active in the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), ACES: The Society for Editing, Professional Editors Network/San Diego, National Association of Independent Writers and Editors, American Society of Business Publication Editors, St Louis Publishers Association, National Federation of Press Women, St Louis Writers Guild and Society of Professional Journalists.
Thaler-Carter is the author of the original EFA booklet 'Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business', co-author of the current version of 'Resumés for Freelancers'; a contributing writer to The Business of Editing; owner/editor-in-chief of the An American Editor blog; and creator/host of Communication Central’s 'Be a Better Freelancer'® conference.
Kia Thomas became a freelance fiction editor in 2016. She spent most of the next 8 years editing romance novels, teaching people how to hyphenate their compound swear words, and telling everyone how she could never edit non-fiction. No one was more surprised than she was when, in 2024, she joined the NHS as a health literacy editor, which involves much less swearing.
Kia is an Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP and local coordinator for the North East England group. She used to be known as 'that one who's always on Twitter'.
Aimee Walker is a romance and women’s fiction editor from Northern Ireland. Her background in education and therapeutic counselling resulted in a natural affinity to coaching authors, and she uses a very collaborative and coaching-based approach with the majority of her clients.
Aimee is passionate about helping women self-publish and having romance respected as much as other genre fiction. She is the author of Top Tropes: A Romance Writer’s Guide and has also published a romance anthology, a romance planner and a DIY series bible. Her next book, The Romance Author’s Companion, will be published next year.
When she isn’t working, Aimee can be found pottering in her garden with her menagerie of animals.
You can find her at www.awepress.com or on Instagram @aimeewalkereditorial.
Sue and Dom run leadership communication programmes for the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC). They both have wide experience of coaching and supporting leaders individually and in groups across a range of organisations.
Dom has worked in senior ‘in-house’ roles and as a coach and consultant in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US, supporting leadership teams across sectors. Recent clients include United Biscuits, H&M, Hampshire Fire and Rescue, Telia and Kier Group. He has also featured in print, podcast, TV and radio promoting effective leadership communication. He is a Fellow and president-elect of the IoIC.
Sue is an experienced executive and business coach. She specialises in culture change, business-aligned people strategies and employer branding. She also facilitates employee engagement, leadership and management behavioural development programmes. As well as having worked in senior HR in-house roles, her consulting clients include Computershare, Welsh Water, Westinghouse Rail and Crux Product Design.
Lydia Wanstall has been a freelance copyeditor and proofreader for 15 years, predominantly working on English texts from multilingual authors. She specialises in publications on public health, environmental health and health economics for organisations including the World Health Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Recent work has included WHO’s clinical descriptions and diagnostic requirements for ICD-11 mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders; a technical manual on alcohol tax policy and administration; field guides and practical tools on water, sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities and rural communities; a web user guide for an early-warning, alert and response system to improve disease outbreak detection in emergency settings; and various series for the OECD – including the biennial Health at a Glance, Country Health Profiles and Country Cancer Profiles. She is an Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
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