Sara Hall | Non-fiction Arts & Humanities Proofreader

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I am a qualified, experienced and reliable proofreader specialising in art, design, history and biography.

A former arts librarian within the academic sector, I have worked as an editorial freelancer since 2010.

Experienced in both hard copy and electronic proofreading, I am competent in both Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat.

Media

Books, magazines, multi-author books, illustrated books, guidebooks, journals, exhibition catalogues, online materials.

Experience

Twelve years' experience as a librarian working in Art & Design and Special Collections, before working as Content Cataloguer for Intute: Arts & Humanities. Freelance since 2005 as Indexer/Abstractor for ProQuest, creating content for academic art databases, including ArtsBibliographies Modern and Design & Applied Arts Index. Freelance proofreader since 2016.

Training

Essential Copy-Editing (Publishing Training Centre) 2023-

Proofreading PDFs (Publishing Training Centre) 2023

An Introduction to Publishing (Publishing Training Centre) 2023

Editorial Style (Publishing Training Centre) 2021

Basic Proofreading (Publishing Training Centre) 2020

What is Copy-editing? (Publishing Training Centre) 2019

What is Proofreading? (Publishing Training Centre) 2018

Clients

The National Gallery

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers

Michael O'Mara Books

Genesis Publications

Bloomsbury

Westchester Publishing Services

Lund Humphries

Summersdale Publishers

Eye Books

The Crowood Press

The History Press

The Vintage Woman Magazine

Facet Publishing

ISIS Audio Books

The Temenos Academy

Zuleika Books

Subjects

art (contemporary, decorative, instructional, visual)

art history

biography/autobiography/memoirs (20th century, film/TV, historical, musical)

bookbinding

crafts

dance and theatre

design (interior design, typography)

heritage crafts

history (18th century, 19th century, 20th century, British)

information science and technology (libraries/librarianship)

media studies (cinema/film, photography, UK culture)

music (musicals, popular, rock)

Qualifications

BA Hons (Open University)

Postgraduate Diploma in Library & Information Studies (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Specialised software

Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, InDesign

Recent work

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers

• Director's Choice: The Royal Institution (Katherine Mathieson, 2024)
• French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950 (Richard Aste and Lisa Small (eds.) 2024)

Lund Humphries

• The Art of Elizabeth Blackadder (Duncan Macmillan, 2023)
• Outside In: Exploring the Margins of Art (Marc Steene, 2023)
• Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900 (Sara Ayres, 2023)
• Rosalba Carriera (Angela Oberer, 2023)
• Henry Holiday: His Stained-Glass Windows for Gilded-Age New York (George B. Bryant, 2023)
• Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain (Gary A. Boyd, 2022)

The Crowood Press

• Ponds (David Kerr, 2023)
• Glazes for the Contemporary Maker (Louisa Taylor, 2023)
• Dyeing Yarn Naturally (Ria Burns, 2023)
• Timeless Tyrolean Knitwear (Linda Ivell, 2022)
• Mixed-Media Collagraph Prints (Vicky Oldfield, 2022)

Facet Publishing

• Libraries and Sanctuary: Supporting Refugees and New Arrivals (John Vincent, 2022)
• Better by Design (Ayub Khan, 2022)
• Data-Driven Decisions (Amy Stubbing, 2022)
• Between the Spreadsheets (Susan Walsh, 2021)

Summersdale

• Mind over Matter (Caroline Roope, 2023)
• The A-Z of Positivity (Anna Barnes, 2023)
• The A-Z of Wellbeing (Anna Barnes, 2023)
• The Little Book of Sex Facts (Sadie Cayman, 2023)

Get in touch with me at [email protected]

• Proofreader

• Picture books
• Non-fiction
• Antiques & collectibles
• Architecture
• Art & culture
• Biography, autobiography & memoir
• Crafts & hobbies
• Design
• Food & cooking
• History
• Humanities
• Media studies
• Music
• Performing arts
• Philosophy
• Photography
• Television, film & radio

• Book publishers
• Educational institutions
• Indie authors
• Journal publishers
• Packagers

• Transcription
• Abstracting