Important reasons

A top-quality service

Very experienced worker

Joanna worked in-house for 10 years as a junior then senior editor
has run her own editing business since 1981
dealt with more than 2,500 books, journals, partworks, catalogues, websites, etc.
edited books on a wide range of non-fiction, from instruction manuals to encyclopedias, politics and transport history to popular biographies and academic tomes, and profiles of dramatists to sport and gardening books
designed and typeset novels, memoires, histories and brochures
project managed single-author and multi-contributor books as well as several books in the same series

for efficient editing of raw text so that it is consistent and in the style required by the client, Joanna uses Microsoft Word style palettes
for page layout, she uses Adobe Creative Suite, especially Indesign, or QuarkXpress, depending on her client’s needs
for image retouching, Joanna uses Photoshop
for making queries easy for authors to identify and deal with, she uses Acrobat Professional

Thanks so much for all your help and valuable advice; it’s been a pleasure to work with you. I hope our paths cross again in the future.