I have always loved reading, and remember that moment as a small child when reading clicked into place for me. From that point, books were my best friends. My first “serious” job after leaving university was as a newspaper sub-editor, and it was a boost to find that my ease with the English language was in demand. I then went off on several tangents for many years, including spending 12 years administering government and other public grants to businesses, research organisations and the not-for-profit sector. I really enjoyed this work but books and words were calling me, and so it was that in 2012 I did some intensive training and became a freelance editor/proofreader, initially under the business name Wordblink.

As a reader, I have always loved children’s fiction. I love the layering in children’s books, so that there’s something for parents and children to enjoy. As I have got older I have increasingly enjoyed reading memoirs rather than fiction. My favourite sorts of memoirs are travel ones: those about people setting up home in other parts of the world, or doing cycling or walking trips. They give me room to dream and to think: what if? It's no surprise that I am increasingly editing memoirs too.