words

 


With more than 20 years in British and American publishing, we provide professional editorial and writing services at competitive rates.

 

Whether you are an individual, publisher or business, we can help shape your words to your needs.

 

We offer the following services:

 

 

editorial (fiction and non-fiction)

 

• book doctor

• copy-editing

• proofreading

• indexing

• americanization

• anglicisation

• location and dialogue feedback

• thesis-to-book development

• project management

• structural development/book doctoring

• commissioning trade and academic non-fiction – literature, history/biography, visual culture, lifestyle and social sciences

 

 

writing

 

• promotional material and bids

• website copy, including blogs

• articles and books; ghostwriting

– areas of specialisation: literature (including poetry and genre), art and design, film, food (including  recipe writing), travel and culture, history and biography/memoir (including celebrity)

 

 

select clients

 

Amazon; André Deutsch; Arden; Aurum Press; Australian Film Commission; Bloomsbury; Cadogan; Cherry Menlove (lifestyle and MBS); Corsair; Delicate Prey; Ebury; Fig Tree; Fletcher Sibthorp (artist); Gale; Harden; HarperCollins; HIP; HOT; Laurence King; Little, Brown; Macmillan; Merrell; Methuen; New Holland; New York University Press; Orion; Palgrave; Penguin; Piatkus; Quarto; Quercus; Random House; Richard Jenkins Photography; Routledge; St James Press; St Martin’s Press; Scholastic; Screen International; Seven Dials; Spring; Thames & Hudson; The University of Chicago Press; Trapeze; Vermilion; Virago; Wardour; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; White Lion.

 

 

To discuss projects, rates and schedules, please contact Aruna:

e: theliteraryshed@icloud.com  

t: +44 (0)7912348448