Curriculum Vitae
Name: Katy Hill
Email: kheditorial@googlemail.com
Professional Experience
Freelance Proofreader and Copy-Editor, 2002–
Proofreading and copy-editing text for publishers, medical communications agencies, general businesses and website design companies. Particular expertise: fiction, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical industry and psychology.
Project Editor, Pickering & Chatto Publishers Ltd, 2000–2002
Began as an Editorial Assistant and worked my way up to Project Editor. Responsible for publishing multi-volume and fully annotated anthologies. Copy-edited introductions and annotation; proofread reset texts and work returned from typesetters, translators and indexers; and compiled amendments from editors/authors and freelancers. Managed projects from contract to print.
Publishing Assistant, Marshall Publishing, 1999–2000
Copy-edited and proofread catalogues, leaflets and web pages marketing illustrative books on a wide range of topics including health, self-help, petcare, house and garden improvements, business skills, and children’s early learning. Also worked with picture researchers and designers to create spreads, blads and jackets.
Sub-editor, Crystal Palace Views newspaper, 1998–99
Copy-edited and proofread articles on news and events across the five boroughs of Crystal Palace, London.
Training and Qualifications
Copy-Editing Skills (three-day course), Publishing Training Centre, 2001
BA (Honours) English (2:1), Goldsmiths College (University of London)
3 A levels: English Literature (B), Music (B), General Studies (B)
8 GCSEs: ranging from A* to C (including Double Science award, History, Maths and French)
