Almost everything that is of value in the world has its origin in in skillful, careful, professional, purposeful, vivacious, polished, irresistible writing. Great writing is a pleasure to read, makes you look good, and is good business. No one wants to read writing that’s full of errors and inconsistencies.

I can help you get weeks, months or years of hard work publication-ready swiftly. For instance, a 30-page journal article in 12-point and double spacing may require under, say, nine hours’ worth of work.

I take full responsibility for a document as if I were the co-author. That is, I assemble hard-working sentences that can be inhaled like ice cream. This minimises the time and effort you need to sign off and submit a manuscript.

Based in Cape Town, South Africa, I’m a native English-speaking copyeditor and copywriter. I’ve assisted many authors to successfully submit to at least 98 academic journals, and their dissertations to multiple universities.

Journals include including Nature, Organization, Mortality, Academy of Management Journal, Geophysical Journal International, Leadership Quarterly and Harvard Business Review.

I’ve had the rare opportunity to edit a book chapter by Prof. Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank), a Nobel Peace Prize winner. 

This document enables you to swiftly evaluate my work. Along with a cost estimate, it enables you to de-risk both your choice of copyeditor and the editing process. Exciting, isn’t it?!

I’ve been a freelance and full-time copywriter and editor, for advertising and digital agencies, research agencies and clients, including NGOs, start-ups and established firms.

My advertising and related work includes print, brochures, posters, scripts, annual reports, television, radio, live reads, direct mail, PR, creative rationales, one-page business/project proposals, and screenplay origination documents.

As a writer I inhabit material by combining acute observation, thinking, experience, memories, immersive research, broad general knowledge, obsession, emotional empathy, taking notes, journaling, reading aloud, sensemaking, sifting, percolating, revising, resting, removing falsehoods. Moving, walking, swimming, pulsing to the rhythm of language.

Forging the real – life – into narrative through imagination. Creating heat and communicating heat. Everything is material, everything. But it’s more than that. It’s treasure. Rendered onto the page and the screen. This is an exhilarating yet demanding process. It takes discipline, practice, refinement, humour, resilience.

So, what are you waiting for?! The sooner you contact me, the sooner I can assist you…