Ms Miranda Harrison

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Extremely experienced within arts publishing – from high-profile museum exhibition catalogues to guide books, and living artists' monographs to art history titles. Popular culture, arts and crafts, photography, performance and fashion – as well as illustrated non-fiction for children – are also areas in which I have many years of experience. Key skills include developing texts with inexperienced authors, resolving complex multi-author texts and ensuring a text is reaching the target audience. Much of my in-house career has entailed project managing illustrated books, liaising closely with editors, designers, picture researchers, proofreaders, indexers, repro houses and printers. I currently provide project management services on a freelance basis alongside editorial work.

Media

1. Books
2. Illustrated books
3. Multi-author books
4. Magazines
5. Newsletters
6. Company literature

Experience

Full-time in-house editorial career: The Good Book Guide (Editorial Assistant), Yale University Press (Production Editor), V&A Publications (Managing Editor), Scala Publishing (Editorial Director)

Part-time / short-term in-house contracts: Lund Humphries (Head of Editorial and Production), Tate Publishing (Managing Editor), British Library Publishing (Project Editor), IWM Publishing (Special Projects Manager)

Most recent in-house roles:

Job title: Guide Books Editor/Special Projects Manager
Company: IWM Publishing  
Dates: 2014­–2020 (part-time role, 2 days a week)

Job title: Project Editor
Company: British Library Publishing  
Dates: 2016–2017 (1 year contract, 3 days a week)

Job title: Managing Editor
Company: Tate Publishing  
Dates: 2013–2014 (full-time maternity cover)

Training

• Adobe Tools for Editors (PCT): 2020
• Editing Digital Content (CIEP): 2020
• Audience-Centric Book Marketing (BookMachine): 2020
• Cashflow for Freelances (FEU): 2019
• Adlib Training: Searching and Exporting Skills (IWM): 2017
• Editing in Word (PCT): 2013
• InDesign for Editors Making Transition from Quark (MBT): 2010
• Assessing Digital Images (Imago): 2007
• Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing (West Herts College): 1990

Clients

Publishing companies include:

• Yale University Press, Lund Humphries, Phaidon, Thames & Hudson, HENI Publishing, Dan Giles Ltd., Goliga Books, Artifice Press, BBC Books, Ebury, Essential Works

Museums and other cultural institutions include:

• Imperial War Museum, British Library, Bodleian Libraries, British Museum, Royal Collection, Kettle's Yard, V&A, Thomas Williams Fine Art, DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport), Pallant House Gallery

Subjects

Architecture (history of), Art (artists' monographs, catalogue raisonnés, general guides), Art history (medieval to contemporary), Aviation (Editor of Duxford air show programmes for 5 years), Children's (non-fiction), Crafts (history of, 'how-to' guides), Design (graphic, contemporary, history of, interior), History (general level; particular knowledge of First and Second World Wars), Humour (irreverent gift books), Performance (training, academic studies).

Qualifications

Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing (Dip Pub)

History of Art (BA)

Specialised software

InDesign

Adobe Acrobat Professional 

Photoshop

Adobe Bridge

QuarkXPress

testimonials

I am eternally grateful to Miranda Harrison for stepping in when we began to flounder at the complexity of the undertaking – this book would have been impossible without her impressive editorial skills and keen eye.

JS, artist

The editor and project manager, Miranda Harrison, made numerous and relevant suggestions so that my work would be accessible to the largest possible audience. I appreciated her professionalism, her quest for quality, her calm, and her ability to have us all work in unison.

AB, author

Miranda was a brilliant editor and project manager on the Ceramics volume.

ME, Managing Director

Thank you so much for your amazing work and patience!

TW, author

I am indebted to Miranda Harrison, copy-editor, for her skilful and intelligent handling of the project.

SC, author

• Editor
• Proofreader