Meticulous editorial work is just a mouse-click away!

website design, editing & maintenance also offered

If you need

  • grammatical text that is free of stylistic inconsistencies
  • house style carefully applied
  • equations, variables or tables correctly set
  • bibliographies brought under systematic control

and if you would like your project dealt with in an intelligent and professional manner, please read on.

Blackbird Editorial Services is the website of Merle Read, a specialist in editing academic and general non-fiction books and journals for clients in the UK and abroad. Merle has a degree in Russian and Greek, and is experienced in a wide range of subjects. She is also well versed in HTML and CSS web page coding.

As an advanced member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, Merle has the expertise to ensure that your text is edited appropriately. Her editorial services are backed up by sound IT and internet research skills. She is a founder member of the SfEP’s Glasgow group and the Glasgow Editors’ Network, and as a qualified librarian she is an associate of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).

Merle’s aim is to uphold the highest editorial standards: if, as Dr Johnson wrote, ‘The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it,’ then only the best editorial work will do.

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