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All editorial projects considered.

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Editorial Specialist + Content Writer

Content Development – print + digital
I prepare, write, review and edit content, ensuring readability and adherence to editorial guidelines as well as correcting spelling and grammar. Editing is crucial to maintaining quality and aligning a brand voice, ensuring specific target audiences are met effectively.

 

Editorial Specialist
The role of an Editorial Specialist is key to ensuring high quality, consistency and engagement, whether that be for a book, article, digital publication or marketing campaign. Editorial workloads involve editing and copy editing, proofreading and plot structure, facts and figures, language and diction, not to mention enhancing narrative flow and improving prose quality.

 

Publishing Professional
I have 20 years’ experience in the publishing industry, working across a broad range of genres in roles ranging from proofreader to project manager.
I’ve tutored aspiring children’s book authors, overseen large-scale content development projects for print and digital education and guided indie authors through the journey of turning an idea into a published book. I’ve edited countless books for small-scale self-publishers and produced reports for government bodies.

If you think I’m a good fit for your project, please fill in the contact form below with a bit of scope insight and I’ll quote. If you prefer, you can email me at alison@alisonhowardservices.com.

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Companies I've worked with

Services:

  • Editorial project management of print and digital content
  • Manuscript appraisal and analysis
  • Developmental editing
  • Copy-editing
  • Proofreading
  • Adapting content to suit different markets across print and digital
  • Rewriting
  • Americanization/Anglicisation
  • Technical writing

Genres include but are not limited to:

  • Non-Fiction Trade (Travel, Nutrition/Cookery, Health, Baby care)
  • Adult Fiction (Sci-Fi, Romance, Adventure)
  • Children’s Fiction (Educational, Picture Books, YA)
  • Business management
  • Academic/Education
  • Reference
  • Philosophy/Religion
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • ELT (English Language Teaching)

How I can help

Project management

  • Overseeing and managing book or content creation from start to finish
  • Setting schedules
  • Monitoring budgets
  • Recruiting and supervising teams of freelance editors, writers, translators, proofreaders, designers, etc.
  • Quality control
  • Scheduling and running testing for digital products
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Developmental Editing

  • Plot development and pace (fiction)
  • Characterisation (fiction)
  • Consistency of voice
  • Coherency - does it make sense?
  • Rewriting for clarity
  • Structure – does it flow?
  • Suggesting paragraph moves
  • Writing style appropriateness
  • Assessing suitability for intended audience
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Copy
-editing

  • House style
  • Consistency
  • Readability
  • Fact checking
  • Word styling
  • Sentence structure and complexity, including rewriting where necessary
  • Appropriate paragraph and section breaks
  • Clarity of meaning
  • Avoiding repetition
  • Highlighting jargon relating to the intended audience
  • Word choice
  • Consistency in presentation
  • Chapter sequencing
  • Consistency in minor plot, timeline or character details (fiction)
  • Correctly punctuated dialogue
  • Spelling and grammar
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Proofreading

  • Spelling and grammar
  • PDF markup
  • BSI symbols
  • Checking references
  • Widows and orphans
  • House style
  • Word docs, PDFs or hard copy
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Get in Contact

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Call +44 (0) 7736 927567 Email alison@alisonhowardservices.com

    ‘I couldn’t be more pleased with Alison’s work. Her structural reports are always fair, but firm, and I know our authors find her advice invaluable. I now have a ‘waiting list’ of authors who have specifically requested her again and that has to be the best recommendation for any editor.’Louise Jordan, Manager, Writers’ Advice Centre

    ‘I had the pleasure of working with Allie Howard at the Oxford University Press’s English Language Teaching Department. Allie is a proactive, motivated and detail-orientated professional. I am confident that anybody who has or will work with Allie will share this opinion.’Grzegorz Aperliński, iOS Developer at Fandom

    ‘We regularly use Alison for proofreading a range of sales and marketing collateral for our business and clients. We always find Alison to be diligent in her approach and also timely in the delivery of work.’John Bancroft, Incognate

    ‘Alison is well organised and carries out her work quickly and efficiently. She is highly knowledgeable in her field and I would have no hesitation in recommending her services.’Robert Coram James, MRICS

    ‘Alison was very helpful throughout the entire process! It was a true partnership effort. She was thorough in the editing process, but first sought to understand the purpose to keep the tone appropriate.’Anwar Taylor, Youth Mentor and indie author

    ‘Alison was very thorough and helpful – not only in her editing, but also providing critical analysis about consistency and logic.’Bo Blackstar, indie author

    ‘I want to thank you for the excellent work you have done. The final product looks brilliant and that’s testament to your attention and determination to deliver a superlative product.’Rebecca Thomas, Equality Human Rights Commission