Elevating editing

8 May 2018

Editors are often practical people, and this goes double for editors who also run their own businesses. We worry about how to do things. How to automate tasks to speed…

The long haul

2 Feb 2018

I reached my tenth anniversary of freelancing almost without noticing. It would be nice to say that the precise cast of the light at this time of the year alerted…

The answerless editor

28 Mar 2017

Editors love answers. They spend countless hours tussling over the right answer to things, with each other and on their own, even if in the end they conclude that the…

New year, new challenges … new clingfilm

1 Jan 20171 Jan 2017

On 30 December, on a slow news day (for me), I tweeted about clingfilm. The story behind the image goes that last summer we spent a week or so camping in…

A writer’s perspective on editing

2 Dec 2016

I haven't blogged so much in the past few months. I'm quite relaxed about that – I don't hold myself to a strict schedule, and prefer to put up a…

The books that made me

8 Sep 2016

It's such a cliché to be an editor who loves books. But there, I've said it: I love books. Almost more than food, or Bourne films. For me it's not…

Game of Thrones editing styles

22 Apr 201622 Apr 2016

I’m a huge Game of Thrones fan, so with season six about to start, I couldn’t resist a Thrones-themed post. It's not just an immersive epic complete with an expansive…

Horror projects

30 Oct 201531 Oct 2017

We’ve all had them ... For every bunch of perfectly pleasant, unremarkable, bread-and-butter editorial projects that keep us ticking over, there always seems to be the occasional one where all…