A highly experienced, creative and commercially savvy editor with a passion for making beautiful books. With over 10 years’ experience across multiple subject areas, particularly cookery and illustrated lifestyle, I can offer an end-to-end publishing service, including working with authors to shape and develop manuscripts, nuts-and-bolts copyediting, flat planning, assembling brilliant design and photography teams carefully matched to the aesthetic of your project, organising and running photo shoots, managing the layout and author approval process, delivering print-ready files, and everything in between. Having worked with some of the biggest publishers in the business, both in-house and on a freelance basis, I have an in-depth understanding of the process behind making four-colour, highly illustrated books and access to a roster of highly skilled freelancers to match with your project needs, from designers and photographers, to recipe writers, food stylists, illustrators, editors, proofreaders and indexers.