Your words are my mission.

Sometimes, all you need is someone with an eye for detail: a fresh perspective on your writing.

Perhaps you’ve looked at your work several times, and reached the stage where you can’t see the wood for the trees?

Perhaps you’ve written a manuscript and need help to develop and pull it into shape? Or you have content such as a blog, podcast or articles that you want to repurpose into a book?

Perhaps you’ve written a document and need editing and a sanity check. Or maybe proofreading to eliminate typos, grammatical gremlins and ensure good standard of English?

If so, you’ve come to the right place! When you’re producing any kind of material for print or online, great presentation is key – it’s going public.

I can help you shape your text and spot errors before your audience does.

I understand that your voice and vision are important. Your words are my mission.

Services

I provide a full range of editorial services to clients worldwide. Distance is no object, maintaining close communication with you by email and phone, and online via Skype, Zoom or Microsoft Teams. I work with: independent authors private clients the academy businesses corporate institutions publishers training organisations communications agencies chartered institutes think tanks research institutes…

Editing and Proofreading

When you’re looking to work with an editor, I understand you want someone you can really trust. Someone who will handle your project with care. I work with independent authors, publishers, businesses and organisations and academics.

Consultancy

Editorial consultancy can be useful if you want to publish content, and need advice on the methods and processes to do this in a practical and cost-effective way. Author advice on writing and publishing If you’re an author and: thinking of self-publishing or approaching an agent or publisher want to know more about how the…

Training and workshops

Writing and editing If you need to write and edit copy for work, I can provide a workshop or presentation on how to achieve clear, readable text. Perhaps you might be working in a business or organisation and aren’t a professional writer, but need to produce content for print or online. The workshop or presentation includes information…

What my clients say

Manuscript critique, development editing, line and copy-editing ‘I would like to pay special thanks to my editor, Lisa Cordaro. Writing a book for the first time and handing it over to someone else for scrutiny is a daunting prospect. From the very first communication we had, Lisa was able to grasp the vision I had…

Portfolio

Here is a selected list of the publications I’ve worked on. (Please note that some of my projects are protected by client confidentiality and cannot be cited.) Books Trade non-fiction …

About

Over more than 30 years in publishing, I have edited and managed publications for a wide variety of authors, clients and organisations, across a plethora of formats and subject areas. During 11 years employed by major international publishing houses, I collaborated closely with prestigious bodies such as the International Bar Association, Bank for International Settlements, European Bank for…

Blog

On this page you’ll find writing and editing tips, and musings on editorial life.

Contact

Interested in working together? I’ll be delighted to hear from you. Please email me or fill in the form below, and I’ll come back to you.