Janey Burton's Reviews

Training:
Progress in Editorial Skills, Publishing Training Centre
Proofreading for Editors, Publishing Training Centre
Process Management, Penguin Learning & Development
Proofreading and Copy-editing, Chapterhouse
LLB (Bachelor of Laws) Honours Degree, Kings College London

Editorial experience (highlights):
Memoir THE WARM UP Derrick Evans aka Mr Motivator (Filament Publishing)
Biography THE MAN WHO WAS GEORGE SMILEY Michael Jago (Biteback Publishing)
Travel/Memoir UNDER A CROATIAN SUN Anthony Stancomb (Thistle Publishing)
Humour 101 MOVIES TO AVOID Allan Smithee (Cyan Books)
Miscellaneous editing work including unpublished manuscripts, PhD theses, newsletter articles, course materials, website copy

Contracts experience (highlights):
Jacaranda Books, Novelicious Books, Frances Burton (Pearson, Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor & Francis), Nicola May (Accent Press, Lightning Books)

Previous publishing experience:
Digital Contracts Executive, Random House, Feb – May 2011
Contracts Executive (Digital Rights Clearance), Penguin Books Ltd, May 2008 – Dec 2010
Publishing Coordinator and Marketing Manager, Cyan Books, Jun 2006 – Feb 2008
Intern, Watson, Little Ltd, May 2006

Reviews:

“I would have been lost without the expertise and the prompt and untiring patience of Janey Burton.” Michael Strong, Author of Sid’s War and Steiner’s War

“I have been happy to recommend her as an Editor to other PhD candidates already, for both her calm and patient manner, and her exacting intelligence.” Portia Ungley, PhD, Lecturer in Visual Culture at Kingston University

“I am excited to be working with Janey on my book, The Warm Up. I have great confidence in her as she seems to have grasped my life and the story I am telling.” Derrick Evans, ‘Mr Motivator’, Author of The Warm Up