Sara Marchington | Copy-editor and proofreader | Children's/YA/Adult fiction | Business and law | Corporate communications
London and Marlborough
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- Job title
- Copy-editor and proofreader
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Sara
Editorial experience
I am an experienced project editor, copy-editor and proofreader, specialising in children's/young adult fiction, adult fiction, law, business and corporate communications.
Titles worked on include:
- Children's/young adult fiction: Wolf Siren (Beth O'Brien), Bad Panda: For Sale and Bad Panda: Mites, Camera, Action (Swapna Haddow), Faber Book of Bedtime Stories for a Brighter Future, Spies in St Petersburg (Katherine Woodfine), A Girl Called Shameless (Laura Steven), Picklewitch and Jack (Claire Barker), The Exact Opposite of OK (Laura Steven), Max and the Millions (Ross Montgomery), The Mystery of the Painted Dragon (Katherine Woodfine), Fish Boy (Chloe Daykin), Podkin One-Ear (Kieran Larwood), Time for Jas (Natasha Farrant), Chicken Mission (Jennifer Gray), Borgon the Axeboy (Kjartan Poskitt).
- Adult fiction: Shadow of the Hawk (David Gilman), The Englishman (David Gilman), My Husband's Wife (Amanda Prowse), I Won't Be Home for Christmas (Amanda Prowse), Planet of the Apes Anthology (Rich Handley and Jim Beard), Associates of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann), Ghosts of War (Bennett R. Coles), Tremarnock (Emma Burstall), The Free (Willy Vlautin), The Dark Inside (Rod Winter-Reynolds), Master of War (David Gilman).
- Adult non-fiction: Dishonesty is the Second Best Policy (David Mitchell), Original Rockers (Richard King), Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth (Jack Sutherland), Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life (David Cavanagh), 1234 QI Facts To Leave You Speechless (John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin), Would I Lie To You? (Peter Holmes, Ben Caudell, Saul Wordsworth).
- Journals: I have been proofreading Tax Journal and Taxation magazine (LexisNexis) on a weekly basis since 2011.
- Corporate communications: Annual reports, bid and tender documents, marketing materials.
Media
Books, company literature, directories/yearbooks, educational materials, government reports, illustrated books, multi-author books, newsletters, online materials, journals
Qualifications and awards
LLB Law, SfEP accredited proofreader
Experience
Freelance since 2007; proofreader, National Audit Office, 2013–14; project editor, Kogan Page, 2010–12; copy-editor and proofreader, The Loewy Group, 2007–10; editorial assistant, The Hemming Group, 2005–07
Training
Editing in Word (Publishing Training Centre) 2014, Copy-editing by distance learning (PTC) 2007
Clients
Bloomsbury (via RefineCatch), Faber & Faber, Egmont, Titan Books, Routledge, LexisNexis, Copper Consultancy/RSK, IFRS
Subjects
Fiction (children's/young adult fiction, science fiction, romantic fiction, horror fiction, fantasy fiction), trade non-fiction (general, business, current affairs), academic (law, social sciences, history, education)
Testimonials
Sara's work is excellent – she has great attention to detail and I trust her to handle authors sensitively. She is always able to fit projects into her schedule and I very much enjoy working with her. Rebecca Lewis-Oakes, Faber & Faber and Egmont
Sometimes every professional writer is chasing their tail to meet a deadline and needs a second pair of expert eyes. Sara has just these eyes. Thorough, observant and quick-off-the-mark, she's the ideal reliable editorial expert. Grace Saunders, author and journalist
Tax Journal is a technical journal – its proofreading is no easy task, but Sara’s work is to a high standard. She is flexible and diligent in her approach, often having to accommodate a last-minute change in deadline, or having to deal with occasional significant increase in volume. I have no hesitation in recommending her. Paul Stainforth, Editor, LexisNexis
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