Experience
English-language Editor, The Lutheran World Federation, Geneva 1978-1988, with primary responsibility for English version of bilingual (English/German) journal and documents. Freelance since 1988

Member of Society of Freelance Proofreaders and Editors (www.sfep.org.uk)

Some recent clients

• The Stationery Office (formerly HMSO) - publications for the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Walker Art Gallery, the Museum of London
• Pira International - market reports for the paper, packaging, printing and publishing industries
• Croner Publications Ltd
• Marshall Cavendish Books Ltd

Some comments from clients

• ... deeply grateful to you for being my copy editor and for handling... with much sympathy and dedicated thoroughness. You have saved me from dozens of infelicities and even more inconsistencies and mistakes.
• Frances has copy-edited three long and very demanding manuscripts for us with great efficiency, courtesy and care. All three were important scholarly catalogues of museum collections, demanding very high standards of accuracy and sensitivity.
• Followed the brief entirely; excellent list of queries, particularly about endnotes/references.
• Thanks for the fantastic job you did on the above book... and for going through things so thoroughly. The various lists will be a real help for the designer, etc.

CRUACHAN PRESS
Publisher of Farm hand, weaver, mason, carver, blacksmith, farmer, porter, grocer... Rannies, Skenes and Melvins by Ian Gould. A series of close-up snapshots of Scottish social history, focused on the lives of ordinary men and women and their response to the worlds in which they found themselves. Through at least six generations - beginning in rural Aberdeenshire nearly two centuries ago - members of this family were remarkably representative of their time, place and 'class'. Not a tale of rags to riches but a revelation of the stoicism and fortitude shown by our ancestors, based on a wide range of evidence. viii + 161 pp. 56 illustrations. ISBN 0 9533451 0 6