📌 Helena Nowak-Smith |
Remote – worldwide
- [email protected]
- Organisation
- Editing de Luxe
- Job title
- Copyeditor and proofreader
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Helena
The short version...
👩🏻💻 Copyeditor and proofreader for📈businesses, 🎓academics,🍷wine & 🌍 travel writers and other non-fiction authors.
✅ Giving you confidence to publish – I quality control your writing so you can present it at its best.
Subjects
• Business (competitor intelligence and analysis, e-business, key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards, market monitoring, market research, marketing, performance analysis, research, strategy, corporate and strategic planning)
• Finance (banking, ESG funds, financial services, investments, personal finance, retail finance, socially responsible investing (SRI), tax, tax-efficient products including pensions, ISAs and child trust funds (CTFs)
• Wine (including winery company histories)
• Travel and tourism (Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Germany, England, UK, Europe, wine tourism)
• Transport (public transportation)
• Science (astronomy, astrophysics, chemistry, geodesy including practical applications of GNSSs and other satellite- and climate-related technologies, hurricanes)
• History of science (ageing/aging, digital hermeneutics, digital history, digital humanities, gender data gaps, psychiatry, psychology, academic and medical journals, scientific conferences, border studies)
Types of publication covered
Non-fiction books, company and research reports, multi-author academic books, academic journal articles, theses and dissertations, websites/blogs, online materials.
Clients
• Publishers of translated non-fiction books (including in France and Germany)
• Professional services firms, business owners and entrepreneurs
• Academics, PhD candidates, University of Luxembourg
• Self-publishing authors
📢 Testimonials 📢
📣 "The quality of Helena's services is excellent. She is professional and respects deadlines. What I really appreciated is that she also gives useful advice and comments. I can only recommend her services" – A, online coach and entrepreneur
📣 "The reviews ... have been excellent: your attention to detail is wonderful and you have a real passion, ensuring that the content is edited to the highest standards. We really appreciate this, and find your contribution to our thought leadership to be a real asset" – S, communications manager, professional services firm
📣 "I have been in awe of what you've done here. I would recommend you to anyone. Truly appreciate your clear thinking and imagination ... You have done an extraordinary job, with powers of observation that rise to the superpower level sometimes! Can't thank you enough" – R, self-publishing author
📣 "Thanks. Reading ... your suggestions I really had a couple of eureka moments.☺︎" – ["Eureka moment, noun: an instant in which ... a breakthrough occurs; a moment of inspiration", Oxford Dictionaries] – E, academic author
📣 "Thanks a lot for all your work! The authors were super happy and we are as well" – J, project manager for academic journal special issue
Training
CIEP annual conferences (2020–2024)
CIEP Editing Digital Content (2022)
CIEP Copyediting Headway (2022)
CIEP Microsoft Word for Practical Editing (2021)
CIEP Proofreading Headway (2020)
CIEP Introduction to copy-editing (2019)
OCT Online content: writing and editing skills (2018)
SfEP Practical mark-up of PDFs (2017)
SfEP Introduction to proofreading (2014)
Qualifications – BSc (Hons) Chemistry
Experience – Freelance since 2018
Languages – French (intermediate), Luxembourgish (basic)
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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.