Paula Clarke Bain
Advanced Professional Member| Location | STOCKPORT, Greater Manchester |
| Telephone | 0161 477 9049 |
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Over 900 books worth of experience in:
- copy-editing (inc. on-screen editing)
- indexing (inc. embedded indexing)
- proofreading (inc. PDF proofs)
Full-time freelancer since 2001, available all year for projects of any length, offering quick turnaround times and reliability on deadlines. I work mainly on arts, humanities and social sciences texts with over 900 freelance commissions completed to date for a number of academic and trade book publishers and direct for authors. I have an employment background in publishing and printing, a BA (Hons) in English and American Literature, and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. I read music and play several instruments, performing regularly with Manchester Recorder Orchestra and Stockport Ukulele Players. I am now a daily Welsh learner (dysgwraig Gymraeg) and a fledgling cryptic crossword setter (as Pixie). I am also a Fellow and an Accredited Indexer of the Society of Indexers (SI) and I was Marketing Director on the SI Executive Board from 2017 to 2020.
Skills
Copy-editing, indexing, proofreading, embedded indexing, on-screen editing, on-screen proofreading
Media
Books, journals, magazines, multi-author books
Software
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Index-Manager, PerfectIt, SKY Index (Professional Edition), WordEmbed
Qualifications and awards
BA (Hons) English and American Literature, BSc (Hons) Psychology, Society of Indexers Fellow and Accredited Indexer
Experience
Freelance since 2001; proofreader, APS Group, 1999–2001; proofreader, Excel Publishing, 1998
Training
Embedded indexing in MS Word (Society of Indexers) 2013
Editing and proofreading music (CIEP/SfEP) 2011
Clients
Alzheimer's Society, Berghahn Books, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Faber & Faber, Hodder Education (Philip Allan), Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Pearson, Penguin Press, Policy Press, Profile Books, Radcliffe Publishing, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), Unbound, Yale University Press
Subjects
American literature, Asperger's syndrome, autism, ballet, biography, cinema, comedy, criminology, cultural studies, dance, dementia, drama, economics, English language, English literature, fiction, film studies, gender studies, humour, learning disabilities, literary studies, media studies, mental health, music, poetry, psychology, psychotherapy, social sciences, sociology, spirituality, theatre, yoga