TIDE and CANUTE

Quick facts about me

I’m based in the United Kingdom
I’m an HMRC-registered sole trader
My native language is British English
My university degrees are in art history and interdisciplinary history
I trained in American English copyediting with UC San Diego
I studied publishing-standard proofreading with the Publishing Training Centre in the UK

What do I specialise in?

Multi-author documents
AI-assisted texts
Texts by writers who learned English after childhood
Texts by writers who use assistive technology support
Quality assurance for documents

What is my approach?

I find out what my client wants for the text. I ask for any relevant instructions and what they don’t want me to do. I’m used to working in a range of ways, from just giving feedback through to rewording sentences and rearranging paragraphs.

In all cases, I read the text closely to see if it makes sense, communicates clearly, and is free from production errors.

What document types do I work on?

AI-assisted writing
Machine translations
Practical documents used inside businesses and other organisations
Communication, education, and heritage writing
Academic writing
New types of writing, with clear instructions from the client

Do I work with indie fiction authors?

I’m interested in consistency and continuity in character behaviour and world-building. I look at whether a story follows its own rules and where a reader might need more detail.

I offer (free) sample editorial evaluations for the first 5,000 words of speculative fiction
I don’t offer copyediting, proofreading, or developmental editing for fiction
I trained in fiction copyediting with UC San Diego and the basics of developmental editing with the Editorial Freelancers Association

Authors should note that I’m from a quality assurance rather than a publishing background. I can’t tell you how to make your story more attractive to agents. Instead, I’ll treat your text as a window into a fictional world that matters in its own right.