About

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I’m a writer, copy-editor and proofreader specialising in non-fiction and educational titles.

My clients tell me that working with me is like putting their project in a ‘safe pair of hands’ because I focus on the details, establish the client’s needs right from the get-go and keep my process completely transparent. I also deliver on time, every time.

Some of my previous contracts have included editorial consulting to Wordworks, an early childhood literacy NGO in Cape Town; managing the reprint corrections of 108 titles for Pearson Education (across all 11 South African languages); commissioning content for foundation phase English readers for Oxford University Press and editing children’s books for Worldreader.

I’m a champion of early childhood literacy and when I’m not writing and editing, I busy myself with literacy NGOs, authoring children’s books and helping children write and illustrate their own books.

With over 13 years’ publishing experience, my publishing career took off in London where I worked as a publishing manager at magazine agency, Cedar Communications. I began my freelance career in book publishing in South Africa in 2010.

For more about my experience, visit me on LinkedIn.