Sasha Bowers
With several years' experience in marketing and publishing, I established 'in detail' in 2018 to offer proofreading and desktop publishing services to individuals, publishers, businesses, charities and public sector organisations.

I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (ciep), the UK's professional organisation for proofreaders and editors, and abide by their Code of Practice​. 

Training

• With a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from Staffordshire University, I am customer focused and appreciate the importance of effective written communication.
• I am professionally trained in proofreading and have been awarded a merit in Basic Proofreading through the Publishing Training Centre.
• I have successfully completed an Adobe InDesign training course at the Hereford College of Arts.​

​Experience
I have gained over 15 years' experience working in a variety of sectors, in both the UK and New Zealand, including:

• proofreading for book publisher The Caxton Press.
• sub-editing Financial Alert, a specialist financial services magazine.
• producing newsletters, press releases, information resources and marketing material for both charitable and commercial organisations.
• managing the publications department for a large group of city libraries​.
• author of Canterbury Country Houses, a non-fiction book published by The Caxton Press, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Recent freelance work includes:

• producing newsletters and marketing material for an international shipping inspection company and developing user manuals for their commercial software.
• Copy-editing for the Yorkley Press, a community publishing organisation in the Forest of Dean that produces local history books.