Louis Greenberg, copyeditor and proofreader | fiction, educational, corporate

Services offered

• Are you a publisher in need of a highly experienced proofreader and copyeditor who knows the workflow back to front?
• Are you an academic in humanities, social sciences, economics or related fields who needs work edited?
• Have you written a novel and want it polished to a professional shine?
• Do you need a human to check your AI-generated text?
• Do you want to squash any errors before your course, brochure or newsletter goes to print or web?

You've come to the right place!

With over twenty-five years of professional wordworking experience in retail marketing and commercial and educational publishing, I'm a copyeditor and proofreader with a laser eye for detail.

I work in British, American and Commonwealth English, and have edited several titles in translation.

Here are some of the great books I've worked on:

Experience

• I’ve edited and proofread scores of books for major publishers, including Random House, Penguin, Pan Macmillan, Head of Zeus, and Titan Books.
• I’ve worked on thrillers, SFFH, literary fiction, YA and children's books, memoir, travel, cookery, law, business, sport and other general trade titles.
• I've edited higher-education course material including economics, business studies, accounting, computing, maths, politics and international relations for universities including LSE, UCL and the University of Sydney.
• I hold a doctorate in English Literature. My thesis looked at apocalypse in Douglas Coupland's novels, while my MA covered contemporary vampire fiction.
• I tutor creative writing and scriptwriting at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. I also designed and tutored an online course in proofreading and copyediting for the Writers’ College, and tutored their Write a Novel course.
• For eight years I wrote, edited, designed and laid out print and online newsletters, brochures, posters and web content for Exclusive Books, South Africa’s major bookselling chain.
• I've been an in-house and freelance web designer and edit in HTML and various content management systems.
• I was a bookseller, buyer and deputy store manager of Exclusive Books' flagship store in Hyde Park, Johannesburg.
• I edited charitable grant funding documents for major corporations including Anglo American and the FirstRand Foundation.
• I was the commissioning editor for Random House Struik’s online imprint.
• I copyedited the academic journal, English Studies in Africa.
• I taught second-language English bridging courses for science students and practised as a writing consultant at the Wits Writing Centre.
• As an author, I have written nine novels.

I understand the editorial process from all sides and am sensitive to writers’, publishers’ and clients’ needs.

Subjects

• Fiction: genre, literary, crime, thrillers, mystery, adventure, science fiction, fantasy, horror, short stories, young adult, children's, middle grade; world literature, fiction in translation
• Travel, sport, cookery
• Higher education course material, including business, maths, economics, and social sciences
• Marketing and promotional material
• Web content
• Corporate documents
• Academic material in education, film and literary studies, business and economics, social sciences, and the humanities

Qualifications & Training

• PhD English Literature, 2011
• MA English Literature, 1998
• SfEP Copyediting 2, 2018
• SfEP Proofreading 2, 2018
• Writers’ College Scriptwriting course, 2016
• Several short courses on topics ranging from Linux networking, PHP and QuarkXPress to film financing and French cookery. Learning new things is one of the constant pleasures of my work.