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Category: Proofreading

  • Sharmika Karnik

    Sharmika Karnik

    Sharmika Karnik

    Sharmika Karnik

    Editor & proofreader

    ✓ Pay-What-You-Can

    ✓ Individual clients

    Sharmika is a detail-oriented editor and proofreader with postgraduate degree in law and background in commerce.

    She has experience in teaching and editing written manuscripts, including a published children’s book. She brings precision and critical thinking to her reviewing process with focus on enhancing the quality of written work through line-editing, proofreading and structural feedback while ensuring that the author’s original voice remains intact. Sharmika is eager to support authors across all genres in delivering their impactful work.

    When she’s not working, Sharmika loves reading to her bookworm toddler. She also enjoys creating mandalas to unwind and center.

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  • Jenna Whittle

    Jenna Whittle

    Jenna Whittle

    Jenna Whittle

    Editor & proofreader

    CIEP

    ✓ Pay-What-You-Can

    ✓ Individual clients

    ✓ Business clients

    Jenna (she/her) is a freelance editor with over 15 years of experience in the publishing industry. She’s worked on titles across a range of genres – lifestyle books, educational titles, science publications and academic works, to name a few – but has a particular passion for children’s publishing, especially picture books, early chapter books and middle grade. Her most recent in-house role was at Penguin Random House Children’s where she worked on their non-fiction and fiction publishing as an editor.

    She is a Professional Member of the CIEP (Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading) and offers a range of services, including development editing, line editing, copyediting, proofreading, fact-checking and editorial project management.

    When she’s not poring over manuscripts, Jenna spends her time chasing after her two young children, going for long walks in the forest with the dog, and reading, reading and yet more reading.

    Please see her CIEP profile for recent project examples and testimonials.

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  • Reyhana Ismail

    Reyhana Ismail

    Reyhana Ismail

    Reyhana Ismail

    Designer, illustrator & writer

    Website | Substack | Instagram

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    ✓ Pay-What-You-Can

    ✓ Individual clients

    ✓ Business clients

    Reyhana is a designer, illustrator and writer who worked as a magazine designer for many years before venturing into the magical world of publishing. She is experienced in working across a range of content for readers of all ages, including illustration, marketing design, typesetting, rhyme-editing and proofreading. She especially enjoys working on activity books, creative non-fiction and content that supports literacy, learning and imagination.

    When she’s not working, she can often be found baking cakes, reading historical fiction, or planning a trip somewhere beautiful, to fuel her creativity and inspire her artwork.

    Services include…

    Book design and typesetting from £30 per hour

    Cover design

    Illustration 

    Rhyme editing 

    Proofreading

    Website design (from £400)

    Marketing design

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  • Trudy Lynn

    Trudy Lynn

    Trudy Lynn

    Editor, writer & proofreader

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    ✓ Pay-What-You-Can

    ✓ Individual clients

    ✓ Business clients

    Trudy is a freelance creative based in Edinburgh. She predominantly works as an editor and proofreader but has had many jobs besides. With a First Class Honours MA in English Literature (with a minor in English Language and Linguistics) from the University of Glasgow and a diploma in Proofreading and Editing, she specialises in editing creative writing and academic manuscripts.

    When not improving your written work or creating theatre, she can generally be found walking through the parks and green spaces of Scotland or curled up at home with a book and the cat.

    A book that recently inspired Trudy…

    A Psalm for the Wild built by Becky Chambers
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