Hi, I’m Atalanta. I’m an Oxfordshire-based professional freelance editor, with sixteen years’ publishing experience under my belt.
I work on arts and humanities and social sciences education, commercial and literary fiction, and trade nonfiction publishing. I also help individual clients with their writing, marketing copy, reports, websites and such. It’s a rich and varied editorial life, and that’s exactly how I like it. If I can transform your writing and we’re a good fit, I’m all in.
I’m an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing & Proofreading (CIEP) and I abide by their code of practice. I’m also a member of BookMachine.
Background
Most editors will tell you they love books and they love reading. Guess what? I do too. I landed my first bookish job in a second-hand and antiquarian bookshop in Oxford, way back in 199…something.
I then worked in-house at Macmillan Education and Taylor & Francis while studying for my PhD in Book History.
I got bitten by the freelance bug when I worked at Macmillan Education and I established my editorial business in 2006.
I’m a published non-fiction author (under Dr Atalanta Myerson), and I’ve written for ‘The Book Collector’, The History of the Book, and The History of Oxford University Press.
Qualifications and CPD
Publishing is always evolving so my CPD needs to keep up. I keep my skills and knowledge fresh with training courses, professional membership, conference attendance and industry networking.
Qualifications include:
- PhD in Book History
- BA in Publishing and History of Art
- Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art & Design
- Foundations for Inclusion course (August–October 2020)
- CIEP course: Introduction to Fiction Editing (November 2019)
- CIEP course: Brush Up Your Proofreading (May 2011)
Professional membership:
- Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP
- Member of BookMachine
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