Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading

BA Hons Classics (1974)

About me:

Language and how we communicate was my first love and remains an abiding passion. All my life I have relished working with words and I enjoy the challenge of each new project. I pride myself on being thorough and attentive to detail while exercising the right degree of judgement in preserving the author’s voice, and in fine-tuning the text to ensure clarity and accuracy, at the same time keeping a keen eye on subtleties of meaning. I have been working in this capacity since 2007 and have never missed a deadline.

Specialisms:

I am at my best working with non-fiction, anything relating to Classics and Ancient History and texts translated from Spanish and French but have successfully tackled many other subjects as varied as football, psychology, cookery, even quantum physics, and plenty more besides.

Testimonials:

'Thank you so much for all the brilliant work you've done for me … it really was an enormous relief to be able to entrust projects to you – you’re a brilliant proofreader …'

'Many thanks for your eagle-eyed proofreading ... It was very helpful and much appreciated … I hope we’ll have your help with future projects.'

'Sara ... is an intelligent (not to say speedy) proofreader.'

'Sara’s proofreading is truly awesome – close reading is a discipline which I admire and seek to practise and she has it in spades. I am so impressed and so grateful.'

'I must say I cannot praise Sara too highly … her intellect has clearly enabled her to examine the script with a truly eagle eye ... I am most gratified at her valuable work …'

'Thank you for your diligent, meticulous, engaged and patient work on this. It has been a pleasure working with you on the text.'