Ms Susanne Hillen |
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Susanne
Web
http://www.hilleneditorial.com
Qualifications and awards
BA English Literature and Greek & Roman Civilisation; BA Fine Art (practice and theory); SfEP accredited proofreader
Training
Efficient copy-editing (SfEP) 2014, On-screen editing 1 (SfEP) 2013
Experience
Freelance since 2008; editorial assistant, editorial manager, production director, Rough Guides, 1988–2002
Clients
Penguin Books (Vintage; Bodley Head; Chatto & Windus); Octopus Publishing; Profile Books; Dorling Kindersley; Sort Of Books; Thames & Hudson; Third Text (journal). I also work directly for private clients (recent titles include fiction and memoir) and academics. Postgraduate theses also considered.
Subjects
Non-fiction including travel, history, cultural history, biography, memoir, art (especially contemporary), politics/current affairs (especially Irish), Greek and Roman civilisation; fiction (especially literary)
Work Done
I have worked on dozens of travel titles in the Rough Guide series and DK Eyewitness series over the past five years, including guides to Korea, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Kenya, Poland, Greece, Brazil, the USA, St Petersburg, Vancouver, Japan, and Sri Lanka.
Other notable projects include:
Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard; Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren; Adventures in Human Being by Gavin Francis; Shapeshifters: On Medicine and Human Change by Gavin Francis; Gateways to Art (flagship Thames & Hudson College title); Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation by David Crystal; Dramatic Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of the National Theatre by Daniel Rosenthal
and the following titles in the Ideas in Profile series:
Art in History by Martin Kemp; Shakespeare by Paul Edmondson; The Ancient World by Jerry Toner; Criticism by Catherine Belsey; On Truth by Simon Blackburn; Conservatism by Roger Scruton; Feminism by Deborah Cameron
testimonials
Susanne is a pleasure to work with – careful, responsive, and meticulous in her editing. She cares deeply about making each book the best that it can be.
Gavin Francis, author of Shapeshifters and Adventures in Human Being
Susanne has been involved in copy-editing, fact-checking, formatting and proofreading for Third Text on several issues now, and her work is of an extremely high standard: her copy-editing suggestions are insightful and pertinent – just what an academic arts journal with very high standards of grammar and research requires. I would not hesitate to recommend Susanne.
Richard Dyer, Editor in Chief, Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture
Service(s)
Specialisms
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