Mr Matthew Seal |
- Organisation
- MSServices
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Matthew
Media
Books, illustrated books, magazines, newspapers
Qualifications and awards
BA Hons History, University of Sussex; City & Guilds Licentiateship in Editorial Skills; honorary membership, Professional Editors' Group (South Africa)
Experience
Freelance on and off since 1974, with in-house experience including: collaborative histories editor, Cambridge University Press; deputy head, Wits University Press; production manager, Ravan Press; revise subeditor, Business Report; published author since 1999, with latest five books (on herbs and herbal history) written in collaboration with my wife
Clients
recent clients include: Boydell & Brewer, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Cambridge Univerity Press, Frances Lincoln, Macmillan
Subjects
Africa, business/business studies, conservation, fitness/health, gardening/horticulture, history, literature other than English (African), media studies, medicine (complementary/alternative), New Age/mind, body, spirit, religious studies/theology (general, evangelical), self-help/popular psychology, South Africa, tourism/travel, vegetarianism
Featured
Over 50 years of experience in the UK and South Africa, freelance and in-house, in both editorial and production capacities, variously in books, magazines and newspapers. An old-style versatile subeditor/writer, willing to tackle anything. Competence and speed, plus a keen appreciation of deadlines, can be taken as read.
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.