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Last updated: 10/7/2025
Mary Child
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  Female
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  Master's degree
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  cyranoeditor88@icloud.com
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  Mary Child is an editor with more than thirty years of experience in editing books, journal articles, essays, speeches, publishing proposals and more. Her professional experience includes nine years combined as in-house acquisitions editor at Oxford University Press (HK) and Cambridge University Press (North America). She has edited books in the social sciences and humanities, with particular experience in Asian Studies, China studies, political science, government, sociology, international economics, and history, as well as books in business, and the arts. As a freelance editor, she has coached authors through every phase of book and article development, from conception, to proposal, to polished, publishing-ready manuscript and promotions materials. She specializes in assessing draft manuscripts and advising authors on necessary revisions. As editor of a journal for a non-profit support group, she planned issues, from theme to layout, wrote articles, solicited and edited articles, including line-editing, copy editing, and proofreading.
  Book promotion, Copyediting, Developmental/Substantive editing, Line editing, Literary coaching, Manuscript evaluation, Project management, Writing
  Anthropology, Arts, Arts, Performing, Arts, Visual, Business, Economics, History, International Affairs, Multicultural Interest, Nonprofit Organizations, Parenting/Family, Political science, Politics, Public Policy, Sociology, Women's studies
  Asian Studies, Northeast Asia, China Studies
  Literary
  Academic Materials, Assessments, Biographies, Book proposals, Catalogs, Creative nonfiction, Dissertations/Theses, Essays, Government documents, Grant proposals, Journals, Magazines, Memoirs, Multimedia, Newsletters, Poetry, Promotional materials, Reviews, Speeches, White papers
  Adult, College
  Chinese
  American Psychological Association (APA), Associated Press (AP), Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), Modern Language Association (MLA)
  Acrobat, Excel, Google Docs, Google Forms, PowerPoint, Word
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