Alison Shakspeare | Self-publishing specialist
Based in southwest UK, but with global clients
- [email protected]
- Phone
- 07866 523 509
- Website
- www.ShakspeareEditorial.org
- Organisation
- Shakspeare Editorial
- Job title
- Specialising in helping self-publishers from editing to final publication
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Alison
Featured
I offer copyediting and book production for academics, businesses and authors to:
- make sure your words speak clearly and 'sell'
- prepare your manuscript for the publication process
- help self-publishing authors across a range of genres to cope with the whole, undeniably confusing, process of getting their books out there
- design and typeset books and general publications, e-books and websites.
Please visit my website for full details and references (NB the spelling, it is not Shakespeare!)
Also a partner member of ALLi, The Alliance of Independent Authors
Media I can work in
- books
- multi-author books
- websites
- e-books
- government reports
- theses and dissertations
- newsletters
- company literature
- magazines
- illustrated books
- manuals
- travel guides
- online materials
Experience
Freelance since 2000.
Training includes: Creating ebooks (Publishing Training Centre) 2012; Grammar at Work (PTC) 2012; Plain English for Editors (2019); Copyright for Editorial Professional (2020); Word for Practical Editing (2020)
Clients
Support for self-publishing authors, from developmental editing, through copyediting and proofreading, to design and publication.
Professional, timely work for businesses and academic publishers (e.g. Palgrave Macmillan, MUP, Ashgate, Routledge – full listing on website).
Subjects
Social sciences, humanities, biography/autobiography, fiction, children's books
Especially: self-help, crafts (textiles/quilting/sewing), dance and theatre, business, food and drink, fitness/health, gardening/horticulture, sustainability, travel, memoir
Software
InDesign/InCopy, Acrobat Pro, WordPress, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Testimonials
I'm told it's difficult to find a real gem. I've got one! Thank you once again … | RB Cameron, self-publishing author
First of all let me thank you for your very thoughtful and thorough editing. | Kurt Huebner, Author and Volume Editor of National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies
I’ve always believed that every book should benefit from a professional edit. Sadly, this isn’t a hard and fast rule in these times of self-publishing and print-on-demand. Alison has solved many problems for me as a writer and as a publisher. In the first (writing) instance, she doesn’t allow my scribblings, which can be a little eccentric, to drift too far into obscurity and always brings the narrative back into proper perspective. In the second (publishing) instance, she has been invaluable to Gatecrasher Books, solving all the finicky problems associated with formatting, design, registry, accounts, etc., that I am either too busy, too confused, or too lazy to do myself. Thanks Alison. | John McDonald, writer and publisher, Gatecrasher Books
Needless to say I am very grateful for your diligence and professionalism in the work. | Francis Rothery – Missional: Impossible!for Wipf and Stock
Alison has brought order and direction to my writing, where required, inviting me to consider what might be expressed better and bringing sense to some of my more chaotic ideas … without over editing and slowing the flow. This she has achieved with the diplomacy and tact common to all good editors and essential when dealing with temperamental authors and their work. | Simon Baseley, author
Alison was really helpful, friendly and gave me lots of advice for the next stage of my book. I employed her to edit and prepare my book for publishing … One of the stages I had problems with was the cover page … Alison was brilliant and she managed to sort out the right pixel size and placed the fairy dust, font and colour of the cover page. Alison solved a lot of other formatting issues for me. She is very professional and helpful and I couldn’t have produced my books if it wasn’t for her. | Tracey Bryant, The Dog Poo Fairy/The Wildlife Rescue Fairy
Anyone who needs a designer and typesetter if you are writing a book, article etc you HAVE TO USE Alison Shakspeare, she is amazing, it looks like my book “Teaching Dyslexics how to Read and Write Music”, is going to be finalised very shortly and it would have been impossible without Alison’s skill and professionalism, she also does websites!!! An absolute godsend that I found her because I was panicking bigtime, her attention to detail is phenomenal | Deborah Aloba, singer and teacher
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Specialisms
Disclaimer note
The CIEP Directory of Editorial Services should be considered a point of first contact and prospective clients must satisfy themselves that members are capable of the work on offer. The Institute cannot be held responsible for the quality of work provided by any member listed in the directory. The members themselves are responsible for the maintenance and accuracy of their entries in the Directory and the CIEP has not made any attempt to vet them. The institute cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies in the Directory. Inclusion in the Directory as a freelance does not necessarily mean that the member is self-employed as defined by HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions.