Editor

Paul Martin

History, Education

United Kingdom English (UK, US), English (US and UK)

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About Paul

I am a passionate and meticulous education resource developer and History specialist editor (fiction/non-fiction; trade, academic), with over 20 years’ experience across a range of subjects and audiences. I worked first in-house for UK education publishers and for the last 10 years as a full-time freelance editor, author and consultant. I work on a range of education, academic and trade publishing, including supporting independent self-publishing authors of fiction and non-fiction. I am a CIEP (UK organisation) accredited Advanced Professional editor.

I am also a published writer myself, of poetry and revision guides for school history, so I understand the challenges and frustrations of both sides of the coin. I will work with you to make your manuscript the best it can be to meet your aims as best I can. I am a voracious reader of historical fiction and fantasy.

I have an extensive client list of packagers, publishers and independent authors. See my profile links to CIEP and LinkedIn for details.

I tend to base charges on hourly rates, depending on the scope of the individual project.

Expertise

  • Manuscript assessment
  • Copy editing
  • Fact-checking
  • Developmental editing
  • Proofreading

Genres

  • Academic
  • Education
  • Fiction (historical/thriller)
  • Non-Fiction

Services Priced in your written quote

Manuscript development

Early stage critique and commentary on structure, content and flow, the deepest reading of your text: $55 per hour

Copyedit

Sentence-level development for accuracy, readability and consistency: $45 per hour

Proofread

Final read-through to spot lingering errors: $42

Experience

  1. Senior Content & Learning Specialist, Pearson UK2008-2016
  2. Editor, Badger Learning2002-2008

Education

MA in Religious & Social HistoryUniversity of Warwick
2001

Certificates and memberships

CIEP Advanced Professional · 2018