Welcome to FMC Editing Services 

I bring experience as an author, proofreader, and editor, to work with you on your manuscript so that it is properly formatted and finished to a printable standard.

Whatever your material—novels, memoirs, histories—I can help you with your project. This often includes digitising photos, and texts, to build formats that work well for you. I  use conventional NZ spelling, grammar, and punctuation, but I will adopt any style guide you need.

I respect writers. I know how hard it is. I understand that motivation. I am committed to all my clients' projects, from menus to novels, because of my own experiences. 

Services

Proofreading 

The service includes checking:

  • appropriate punctuation
  • ambiguity
  • spelling
  • grammar
  • formatting consistency, including referencing



Editing

The service includes:

  • online editing  
  • hard copy editing, using traditional editing marks
  • structural editing on a case-by case-basis
  • website editing 

 

 

My background

I am enthusiastic about memoirs and local history projects and have specialist training and experience in music and farming, so I bring a broad skill set to support novelists, businesses/clubs by ensuring relevant printed material is high quality. This includes proofreading and editing novels, brochures, newsletters, advertisements, books, and magazines.

My career qualifications include a Diploma of Editing from the NZ Institute of Business Studies, a Bachelor of Music from Victoria University, and a Graduate Diploma in Rural Studies from Massey University. I was Head of Music at Taradale High School before co-owning, and managing, a dairy farm and a beef block near Whanganui for over thirty years.

My writing experience includes Making Waves, a biography of Captain Jock McGregor, Whanganui's first permanent immigrant settler, which was published by Steele Roberts in 2004, and they published my second book, The Bennier Story, Wanganui 1917, in 2008, followed by a second edition of Making Waves in 2010. I wrote Nicola Sciascia 1840-1898 as an e-book, commissioned by Professor Piri Sciascia, in 2008, and in 2016 I self-published TOWNHALL, researching the relevant minute books held by the Whanganui District Council Archives to explain the evolution of Castlecliff and Gonville townships and the Borough of Eastbrook, and how the three amalgamated with Wanganui Borough in 1924.

 

Contact FMC Editing Services for your proofreading enquiries.