Suzanne Arnold | Non-fiction editing and proofreading
- Website
- www.suzannearnold.com
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Suzanne
Helping authors and businesses polish their text for publication
Specialist in non-fiction for adults, from accounting to ancient history, motorsport to marketing. I especially love the details that many people hate – spelling, grammar and consistency.
I have availability to take on more business thought leadership.
I also do developmental editing and manuscript reviews; and can help with reducing word counts (eg to meet journal submission criteria), or writing book cover text or alt text.
I have in-house book publishing experience with DK and Octopus Publishing, I've worked on motorsport magazines for Haymarket (including F1 Racing and Autosport) and I've worked in the corporate world (accountancy texts at KPMG and legal content at Freshfields). This range of environments means that I'm also used to editing texts written by authors for whom English is a second language.
I also have a diploma in Egyptology, so I'm especially well-suited to history texts.
I will not paste or upload your text into any generative AI bot unless I have your permission to do so.
Experience
• Freelance since 2004 (part-time to December 2022; full-time since January 2023)
Clients include businesses, such as Skerryvore Asset Management, self-publishing authors, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), Amber Books, students
• Interim managing editor, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, part-time, self-employed, June 2025 to May 2026
• Editorial and social media manager, KPMG, 2011–2022
• Senior editorial and design executive, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, 2007–11
• Senior editor, Mitchell Beazley, Octopus Publishing Group, 2005–07
• Before that: DK, Haymarket, Butterworths Tolley, a non-profit publisher
Subjects I work on
• History/archaeology – especially ancient Egypt/Egyptology (I have a diploma in Egyptology)
• Motorsport – especially Formula 1/F1 (I used to sub-edit and write for F1 Racing magazine and the McLaren team's magazine)
• General non-fiction
• English literature
• Accounting for a business audience
• Law for a business audience
Media I work on
• Books/ebooks
• Illustrated books
• Magazines
• Multi-author books
• Thought leadership/corporate comms
• Annual reports
• Online materials
• Websites/blogs
• Theses/dissertations
• Social media
Specialised software
• InDesign
• Vellum
Testimonials
‘Your work has been stellar.’
Anna K. Hodgkinson, Egyptologist, author of Working in the Suburbs: The Archaeological Remains from Amarna Site M50.14–16, 2025
‘The authors asked me to pass on their thanks for your thorough job. We all are very reassured knowing it has been looked through in detail!’
Francesca Morosini, Head of Communications, What Works for Early Intervention & Children's Social Care, 2023
‘Thank you for being such an excellent and kind-hearted editor!! I was buried in this book and you helped bring me back out into the light of day again (that thing that writers often forget).’
B.L. Molyneaux, author, 2022
‘Suzanne Arnold, who edited the manuscript, is extraordinary.’
Ian J. Bickerton and Carla L. Klausner, authors, in their acknowledgements, A History of the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 2022
For more information, see my website or get in touch
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