Paula Clarke Bain
Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK
- Website
- http://www.baindex.org
- Organisation
- baindex.org
- Job title
- Book indexer and editor
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Paula Clarke
Bluesky: @baindex.org
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/baindex
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Featured
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 on MyCrossword). I am also a Fellow and an Accredited Indexer of the Society of Indexers (SI). I am the current Chair of the SI Executive Board (since December 2024) and I was the SI Conference Director from December 2023 to December 2025, overseeing the Conference Committee and our 2024 online conference and 2025 in-person residential conference in Birmingham.
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, Calon (University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru), Cambridge University Press (CUP), Canongate, Faber & Faber, Hodder Education (Philip Allan), Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Orion Publishing Group, Pearson, Penguin Random House (Allen Lane, Penguin Press), Policy Press, Profile Books, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 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
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Disclaimer note
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