About

Hello - welcome to my website. I am an experienced freelance copy editor and publishing services provider, and have been working in the world of books since graduating from the University of Kent at Canterbury in English and History of Art.

Following a brief interlude as a bookseller, I worked in sales and marketing for a number of London publishers, including Golden Cockerel Press; Associated University Presses; Financial Training Publications (later Blackstone Press); Butterworths; and Thames and Hudson.

While working as a publicity copywriter by day – and later as in-house writer for a major insurance company – I developed a freelance editorial career which turned into a full-time business in 1989. Alongside copy editing came an interest in exploring the potential of the then-new field of desktop publishing. In 1990, I set up a business offering editorial, typesetting and print production services to publishers of books and journals, specialising in law, accountancy and finance. The firm grew steadily over the years, taking on additional staff and occupying several different offices before settling in a converted stable at the bottom of the then Doyle family garden. Subsequent innovations in typesetting and the way that many publishers prepare text for print, however, have been reflected in a change of emphasis in my work. Now based on Mersea Island, Britain's most easterly inhabited island, I work on my own, concentrating primarily on the provision of editorial and project management services to non-fiction publishers.

For details of the services currently offered, please click on the 'publishing' link (above left).

My personal blog, 'Musings from a Muddy Island', is at http://julietdoyle.blogspot.com .

The new website for the liveliest acoustic music session on the island is at http://merseasession.blogspot.com/ .

And for a full listing of all the live music coming up in and around Mersea, see http://www.merseaislandlivemusic.com .

To learn more about Mersea, go to the other Mersea Island links on my blog.

Thanks to my younger daughter, Iona (8), for the photo.