Editorial Freelancers Association
Member Profile
Mary Child
Mary Child is an editor with more than thirty years of experience in editing books, journal articles, essays, speeches, publishing proposals and more. Her professional experience includes nine years combined as in-house acquisitions editor at Oxford University Press (HK) and Cambridge University Press (North America). She has edited books in the social sciences and humanities, with particular experience in Asian Studies, China studies, political science, government, sociology, international economics, and history, as well as books in business, and the arts. As a freelance editor, she has coached authors through every phase of book and article development, from conception, to proposal, to polished, publishing-ready manuscript and promotions materials. She specializes in assessing draft manuscripts and advising authors on necessary revisions. As editor of a journal for a non-profit support group, she has planned issues, from theme to layout, written articles, solicited and edited articles, including rewriting, line-editing, and proofreading.
Years in the field: 33
Years freelancing: 21
Mary Child
Mary Child is an editor with more than thirty years of experience in editing books, journal articles, essays, speeches, publishing proposals and more. Her professional experience includes nine years combined as in-house acquisitions editor at Oxford University Press (HK) and Cambridge University Press (North America). She has edited books in the social sciences and humanities, with particular experience in Asian Studies, China studies, political science, government, sociology, international economics, and history, as well as books in business, and the arts. As a freelance editor, she has coached authors through every phase of book and article development, from conception, to proposal, to polished, publishing-ready manuscript and promotions materials. She specializes in assessing draft manuscripts and advising authors on necessary revisions. As editor of a journal for a non-profit support group, she has planned issues, from theme to layout, written articles, solicited and edited articles, including rewriting, line-editing, and proofreading.
