SYP Wales has partnered with The Publishing Training Centre to deliver a masterclass on freelancing in the publishing industry.
Working in publishing doesn’t necessarily mean securing a permanent job at a publishing house. Freelancing is commonplace in the industry and can offer greater flexibility in terms of when and where you work. So, what does it take to be a successful freelancer in publishing?
In this webinar you will hear from three highly experienced freelance editors on the role of freelancers in publishing, how to set up and run a profitable business, developing client relationships and more.
This event has limited capacity, so book your ticket now to avoid disappointment. SYP members should contact syp.wales.events@gmail.com to request a free ticket. Instructions for joining this online event will be shared with ticket holders in advance. This event will be recorded by the event organisers.
About the speakers
Caro Drake
As an in-house editor and manager at Blackwell and Cambridge University Press (CUP), Caro worked on a wide range of academic books, journals and illustrated trade titles. For 15 years at CUP she trained copy-editors and proofreaders, and updated the current edition of Butcher’s Copy-editing with a colleague. As a freelance, Caro works with and for a variety of clients, including publishers, educational organisations and the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP).
Alysoun Owen
Alysoun Owen is an experienced publisher and project manager of print and digital products. Through her consultancy company, Alysoun Owen Consulting, she works with publishers at the forefront of digital innovation, including Bloomsbury, Class Publishing, Oxford University Press and Springer Nature. As Editor of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, she speaks at conferences, literary events and on university courses.
Heather Rawlin
Heather first worked in-house at a firm of typesetters, where she was a project manager, taking academic publications from manuscript through to print-ready and digital formats. She started her freelance editorial business, Future Perfect, in 2015 and works with a mixture of academic publishers, educational institutions and commercial businesses. Heather has degrees in the History of Art and experience of editorial work in medical and scientific publishing as well as the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.