Why Barrett Editing?
With over 25 years’ experience working in the publishing industry in Ireland and the UK we provide a range of project management and publishing services.
Led by Aoife Barrett, we work on all types of publications from children’s picture books and animated multi-media projects to Irish language books for primary school and true crime bestsellers for multi-national publishing companies.
For Publishers
Publishers
If you’re looking for:
- Expert and cost-effective editing, writing and project management services.
- Professional skills to help you get your books and/or digital projects signed-off and to the market on time.
- Within budget.
For Authors
Authors
If you’re looking for an experienced editor:
- To review your manuscript.
- To edit and proofread your book.
- Give you an experienced and objective opinion on your work.
We can do that.
For Businesses
Businesses
With over 25 years of publishing experience in Ireland and the UK, if you’re looking for help:
- Writing, editing and fine-tuning your communications
- Producing the highest quality, reader-friendly material
- Working with a network of editors, designers and proofreaders
- Ensuring your text is of the highest standard
What we do:
Project managment
we have a long history of working on some fantastic publishing projects, to produce high-quality publications
Copy Editing
we work on onscreen/hard copy MS mark-up, ensuring consistency of publisher’s house style, correcting grammar issues, standardising spelling, deleting repetitive text and so on.
Proof Reading
we will check the mechanics of your text, such as grammar, punctuation, spelling, omitted words, repeated words, spacing and format, and typographical errors
Picture Reasearch
we will construct spreadsheets of all photos/images required in a project/book, deal with image agencies and track down samples required, sorting out credits and file formats and supplying images to designers
Book Series Development
Book Series Development
working with authors, designers and marketing specialists to develop text levels, designs and series’ branding and managing the development of a range of children’s and educational books
Structural editing
Rewriting and reworking text, this can range from moving a few paragraphs around within a chapter/section to taking a manuscript apart and re-configuring the layout of the book suggesting a need for additional text/removing text/elaborating on certain areas of the text so that the text achieves the best structure and flow, and avoids multiple repetition, character and plot issues, libel and so on –always in a two-way process with the author and using Track Changes
Commissioning artwork/images
we write art briefs, source and commission illustrations from a range of illustrators/illustration agencies, and follow-up on multiple drafts, after consultations with authors and publishers, until images are in and signed-off
Copyright clearance
we can track down and contact copyright holders to clear permission to reproduce images or text in your publication.
What we do:
Project managment
we have a long history of working on some fantastic publishing projects, to produce high-quality publications
Book Series Development
working with authors, designers and marketing specialists to develop text levels, designs and series’ branding and managing the development of a range of children’s and educational books
Copy Editing
we work on onscreen/hard copy MS mark-up, ensuring consistency of publisher’s house style, correcting grammar issues, standardising spelling, deleting repetitive text and so on.
Structural editing
Rewriting and reworking text, this can range from moving a few paragraphs around within a chapter/section to taking a manuscript apart and re-configuring the layout of the book suggesting a need for additional text/removing text/elaborating on certain areas of the text so that the text achieves the best structure and flow, and avoids multiple repetition, character and plot issues, libel and so on –always in a two-way process with the author and using Track Changes
Proof Reading
we will check the mechanics of your text, such as grammar, punctuation, spelling, omitted words, repeated words, spacing and format, and typographical errors
Commissioning artwork/images
we write art briefs, source and commission illustrations from a range of illustrators/illustration agencies, and follow-up on multiple drafts, after consultations with authors and publishers, until images are in and signed-off
Picture Reasearch
we will construct spreadsheets of all photos/images required in a project/book, deal with image agencies and track down samples required, sorting out credits and file formats and supplying images to designers
Copyright clearance
we can track down and contact copyright holders to clear permission to reproduce images or text in your publication.
What we do:
Project managment
we have a long history of working on some fantastic publishing projects, to produce high-quality publications
Book Series Development
working with authors, designers and marketing specialists to develop text levels, designs and series’ branding and managing the development of a range of children’s and educational books
Copy Editing
we work on onscreen/hard copy MS mark-up, ensuring consistency of publisher’s house style, correcting grammar issues, standardising spelling, deleting repetitive text and so on.
Structural editing
Rewriting and reworking text, this can range from moving a few paragraphs around within a chapter/section to taking a manuscript apart and re-configuring the layout of the book suggesting a need for additional text/removing text/elaborating on certain areas of the text so that the text achieves the best structure and flow, and avoids multiple repetition, character and plot issues, libel and so on –always in a two-way process with the author and using Track Changes
Proof Reading
we will check the mechanics of your text, such as grammar, punctuation, spelling, omitted words, repeated words, spacing and format, and typographical errors
Commissioning artwork/images
we write art briefs, source and commission illustrations from a range of illustrators/illustration agencies, and follow-up on multiple drafts, after consultations with authors and publishers, until images are in and signed-off
Picture Reasearch
we will construct spreadsheets of all photos/images required in a project/book, deal with image agencies and track down samples required, sorting out credits and file formats and supplying images to designers
Copyright clearance
we can track down and contact copyright holders to clear permission to reproduce images or text in your publication.
Project Managment
we have a long history of working on some fantastic publishing projects, to produce high-quality publications
Structural editing
Structural editing
Rewriting and reworking text, this can range from moving a few paragraphs around within a chapter/section to taking a manuscript apart and re-configuring the layout of the book suggesting a need for additional text/removing text/elaborating on certain areas of the text so that the text achieves the best structure and flow
Book Series Development
Book Series Development
working with authors, designers and marketing specialists to develop text levels, designs and series’ branding and managing the development of a range of children’s and educational books
Copy Editing
we work on onscreen/hard copy MS mark-up, ensuring consistency of publisher’s house style, correcting grammar issues, standardising spelling, deleting repetitive text and so on.
Testimonials
It’s always lovely at the end of an editing project to get a bit of feedback from satisfied authors, businesses or publishing companies.
And of course it helps you to decide whether or not we know what we’re doing!
Here are some of the comments made over the past while:
As always my deepest thanks to my extremely talented and patient editor Aoife Barrett of BE who has worked on most of my books making the manuscript both legible and understandable. Over the years Aoife has become an expert on the subject of organized crime.
As always my deepest thanks to my extremely talented and patient editor Aoife Barrett of BE who works her magic on the manuscript every time to make it legible and understandable. Over the years Aoife has become an expert on the subject of organized crime.
In writing this book I would like to acknowledge the assistance provided by my editor Aoife Barrett of Barrett Editing, who worked tirelessly on the editing of the manuscript. I could not have done it without her!
We would like to acknowledge the immense support and expertise provided by our ever-patient editor, Aoife Barrett.
We owe much to editor Aoife Barrett for reshaping and improving our original raw efforts.
Contact Us
Contact us for more information (or just for a chat about your project!).
Tel: 086-020 8945