Skills and Software
Pitmans Elementary and Intermediate Secretarial Certificates, with Distinction for typing (90 wpm)
Basic French and Italian
Windows 10, Microsoft Office Professional 2016

Adobe Reader DC
Photoshop Elements 15

Training Certification and Continuing Professional Development

1989–90 BPIF Introduction to Print Technology Certificate (1 year, CCHE Cambridge)
1992 Book Production: The Sequence of Processes (Publishing Training Centre at Book House)
1993 Specialist Copy-editing: Law (Publishing Training Centre at Book House)
1994 Typography

Taking Disks from Authors

On-screen Editing (Publishing Training Centre at Book House)
1995 Managing Editorial Freelancers (Publishing Training Centre at Book House)
1996 Managing Projects (Publishing Training Centre at Book House)
1998 SGML/XML: An Introduction (Technology Appraisals)

Time Management (Publishing Training Centre at Book House)
1999 Assertiveness and Influencing Skills (Publishing Training Centre at Book House)

Quark Xpress (Windows) Basic and Intermediate (Kluwer)
2000 Quark Xpress (Windows) (Spring Training)
2002 Working for Non-Publishers (SfEP)
2003 Web Editing and Proofreading (SfEP)
2005 Training for Trainers (SfEP)
2008 Editing in the Oracle/Stellent Content Management System (Capgemini)
2011 Travel Writing (Arvon Foundation)

Food Writing (Arvon Foundation)
2013 Feature Writing (Guardian Masterclasses)

Stock Photography (Royal Photographic Society)
2015 Seth Godin’s Freelancer Course (Udemy)
2016 Photoshop Elements 15 (DVD Training UK)
2018 Editing with Word (SfEP)

Macro Workshop (SfEP)

PerfectIt 3: Introduction and Advanced (Cadman Training Services)
2019 Editing for the Web Masterclass (Copyediting.com/Erin Brenner)

The Editor’s Place in E-book Development (Editors Canada)
2020 Grammar Arcana (American Copy Editors Society (ACES) masterclass)

Storywriting (Creative Warehouse)

Enforcing House Styles: Customizing PerfectIt for Advanced Users (ACES)

PerfectIt 4: Introduction (Cadman Training Services)

Editing Cookbooks: The Little Things Matter (ACES masterclass)

How Google Can Help You Verify Content and Write Stronger Headlines (ACES)

ALLi Self-Publishing Conference (Alliance of Independent Authors)

National Creative Writing Industry Conference (NCWIC)
2021 Query Letter Masterclass and course (Jane Friedman)

Headlines That Work: How to Capture Readers’ Attention on Any Platform (ACES)

Editing in a Multilingual World (ACES)

Small Changes, Big Difference (ACES)

Non-fiction: Place and People: Masterclass with Rory MacLean (Arvon Foundation)

ALLi Self-Publishing Conference (Alliance of Independent Authors)
2022 MS Word Heroics – Tech Cheats (Editors Guild)

More about Singular They: Editor’s Use of Comprehensive Style Guides to Make Decisions about This Shifting Pronoun (ACES)

Working with Self-publishing Authors (ACES masterclass)

ALLi Self-Publishing Conference (Alliance of Independent Authors)
2023 The Art of Editing Non-fiction (Reedsy masterclass)

Exploring Craft: A Masterclass in Copyediting from the Author of Dreyer’s English (Benjamin Dreyer and National Press Club Journalism Institute)

ChatGPT: The Threat, The Promise, and its Effects on the Editing Industry (ACES)

How to Query Non-fiction: An Agent Explains (Reedsy Live)

ChatGPT for Editors: Leveraging AI to Transform Your Workflow and Upgrade Your Efficiency (ACES)

Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence in Publishing (Reedsy)

Facts Matter: Ensuring Credibility Through Editing (ACES)

An Editor’s Guide to Assessing and Addressing Problematic Content (ACES)

ALLi Self-Publishing Conference (Alliance of Independent Authors)

AI + News: How Journalists Can (and Should) Start using AI in Their Work (National Press Club Journalism Institute)

Generative AI, Copyright and Publishing (Reedsy)
2024 Working with Non-writers (ACES)

Copy-editing Website Copy (ACES)

‘Not Your Parents’ Spellcheck’: Determining Whether AI is the Write Tool for You (ACES)
2025 The Essential Role of Narrative in AI-Enhanced Communications (ACES)

Acceptable Copyediting Error and Productivity Rates (ACES)

Amplify Your Presence (TechHub)

The Art of Manuscript Evaluation (University of Chicago)

Perfection Under Pressure (Intelligent Editing/Draftsmith)

Working with Non-writers (ACES)

What AI Means for Your Book and the Publishing Industry: Threat, Benefit or Both? (An ‘Ask That Cranky Editorial Guy’ session)

Why Don’t Book Publishers Fact Check? And Should They? (Jane Friedman)

Public AI Summit (Harvard University)

BookInsight by DemandSens: The AI That Reads, Analyzes, and Elevates Your Manuscripts Instantly Confirmation (Frankfurter Buchmesse/Frankfurt Book Fair masterclass)

Intellectual Property in the Age of AI: Protecting Your Content (CopyLeaks)

Education
1985–88      The University of Essex, Colchester, Essex
BA (Hons) English and European Literature (2:1)
Year 1: The Enlightenment, Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy
Years 2 and 3: English and European Literature (major), Russian Literature (minor)