Some of the work undertaken for UCL Press
As a writer and editor I have worked in communication projects with executives in international organizations, charitable foundations and government departments.
See samples of writing
‘Mark is doing great work on the copy edit of my book’ Professor Born
Further back in time …
I started as an apprentice with Unicorn Bookshop and assisted in the production of Nature’s Foods, the Infinity cookbook that found its way into kitchens all round the world. As an alternative, counter-culture enterprise, Unicorn endured a certain notoriety but did publish the very practical and life-affirming Survival Scrapbooks, alongside a range of poetic, political and otherwise eccentric or obscure titles, including The Rudiments of Tabla Playing, a specialist music-instruction manual. I was entrusted with scalpel and tape at the light-table, back in the days when ‘cut-and-paste’ meant just that!
I spent twelve years working in prepress services for music publishers. Our company dealt with content production in everything from hymn books to hip-hop.
More editing work in the 21st century
I get on pretty well with people, authors included! It’s nice to have published evidence of that, as in the acknowledgement below.
I’m also a composer and music leader, occasionally writing articles for Music Teacher magazine and, in the past, a series on Sussex history, for Magnet/Sussex Living. (see top)
Other editorial work:
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