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Richard Wynne / Lodestar Editorial

Versatile, inquisitive non-fiction editor with diverse background and skills

Services: Editing – Typesetting 

Email richard@lodestareditorial.com Web lodestareditorial.com

I am based in London, and work with clients around the world.

Whether you are with a publishing company or an organisation needing to publish, are an academic, or are a self-publishing author, I can help you – with books, journals, reports, technical publications, structured information – always with the intended reader in mind. And if you wish I can handle further stages of your project’s workflow: typesetting, layout, production. I’m well-read, curious, discerning, resourceful, pragmatic, software-savvy, and a programmer. I like a textual or technical challenge – I created this directory.

I am able to:

  • smooth out the minor blemishes in otherwise-good writing;
  • massage disjointed accounts into coherent narratives;
  • prune dense thickets of barely functional verbiage into plain language;
  • transform unruly heaps of disparate text and graphics into polished publications.

My work has served psychiatrists, software engineers, and sailors, along with non-specialist readers.

My background

I have many years’ practical and management experience in the computer hardware and software industries: in engineering, service, sales, marketing, software consultancy and development, and technical publications.

By night I have studied pure & applied mathematics, number theory, computation, physics, and cosmology with Birkbeck College, London and the Open University.

When time allows I like messing about in, but more often with, traditional wooden sailboats, and am the keeper of a classic example built in 1937.

From 2009 to 2026 I singlehandedly edited, designed, and published scores of trade books under my own niche nautical imprint Lodestar Books. They have a good reputation, with reviewers and readers, for their content, appearance, and production values; visit Lodestar Editorial to see some typesetting examples. They happen to be sailing, boatbuilding and travel books, but their textual and visual requirements are universal. I’d welcome the opportunity to bring their sympathetic high quality, and attention to detail, to your subject matter.

Technology I use

I edit using Microsoft Word with tracked changes, and perform typesetting and layout using Adobe InDesign and various graphical applications. I maintain all software at the latest version.

Training I’ve had

Introduction to Editorial Skills (PTC) Progress in Editorial Skills (PTC) Editing with MS Word (CIEP) Copy-editing 2: Headway (CIEP)

Affiliations

Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)

Member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)

Testimonials

Impressive editing by Richard Wynne – my thanks. … the author asked me to pass on his thanks for the excellent editing you undertook … … really pleased with all you have done as feedback from authors have [sic] been great … The author asked me to pass on his appreciation for the high quality of the editing. Really appreciate the quality of the work you are providing for us … The authors are very happy with the work you have done on this … Thanks very much for your work on this – we are very happy …

[Royal College of Psychiatrists]

I love your high production standards … Lovely typesetting!

[Julia Jones (Yachting Monthly reviewer) on Hillyard –The Man, His Boats, and Their Sailors]

This wonderful volume …

[WoodenBoat magazine on the first ever Lodestar Book, Holmes of the Humber]

Editing services: Copyediting – Line/stylistic editing 

Non-fiction categories: Anthologies and essays – Anthropology – Archaeology – Astronomy and cosmology – Biography, autobiography and memoir – Computer science and information technology – Crafts and hobbies – Ecology and conservation – Economics – Engineering – Environmental science – General non-fiction – Geography – History – Narrative non-fiction – Nature and the natural world – Philosophy – Physics – Politics and government – Publishing and book trade – Reference – Technology – Town and country planning – Transport – Travel writing – Urban planning – War and military 

Publication formats: Book (popular/general) – Book (specialist/academic) – Journal – Proposal – Public information – Reference work – Report – Technical document – Thesis/dissertation 

Richard Wynne / Lodestar Editorial

Versatile, inquisitive non-fiction editor with diverse background and skills

Services: Editing – Typesetting 

Email richard@lodestareditorial.com Web lodestareditorial.com

I am based in London, and work with clients around the world.

Whether you are with a publishing company or an organisation needing to publish, are an academic, or are a self-publishing author, I can help you – with books, journals, reports, technical publications, structured information – always with the intended reader in mind. And if you wish I can handle further stages of your project’s workflow: typesetting, layout, production. I’m well-read, curious, discerning, resourceful, pragmatic, software-savvy, and a programmer. I like a textual or technical challenge – I created this directory.

I am able to:

  • smooth out the minor blemishes in otherwise-good writing;
  • massage disjointed accounts into coherent narratives;
  • prune dense thickets of barely functional verbiage into plain language;
  • transform unruly heaps of disparate text and graphics into polished publications.

My work has served psychiatrists, software engineers, and sailors, along with non-specialist readers.

My background

I have many years’ practical and management experience in the computer hardware and software industries: in engineering, service, sales, marketing, software consultancy and development, and technical publications.

By night I have studied pure & applied mathematics, number theory, computation, physics, and cosmology with Birkbeck College, London and the Open University.

When time allows I like messing about in, but more often with, traditional wooden sailboats, and am the keeper of a classic example built in 1937.

From 2009 to 2026 I singlehandedly edited, designed, and published scores of trade books under my own niche nautical imprint Lodestar Books. They have a good reputation, with reviewers and readers, for their content, appearance, and production values; visit Lodestar Editorial to see some typesetting examples. They happen to be sailing, boatbuilding and travel books, but their textual and visual requirements are universal. I’d welcome the opportunity to bring their sympathetic high quality, and attention to detail, to your subject matter.

Technology I use

I edit using Microsoft Word with tracked changes, and perform typesetting and layout using Adobe InDesign and various graphical applications. I maintain all software at the latest version.

Training I’ve had

Introduction to Editorial Skills (PTC) Progress in Editorial Skills (PTC) Editing with MS Word (CIEP) Copy-editing 2: Headway (CIEP)

Affiliations

Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)

Member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)

Testimonials

Impressive editing by Richard Wynne – my thanks. … the author asked me to pass on his thanks for the excellent editing you undertook … … really pleased with all you have done as feedback from authors have [sic] been great … The author asked me to pass on his appreciation for the high quality of the editing. Really appreciate the quality of the work you are providing for us … The authors are very happy with the work you have done on this … Thanks very much for your work on this – we are very happy …

[Royal College of Psychiatrists]

I love your high production standards … Lovely typesetting!

[Julia Jones (Yachting Monthly reviewer) on Hillyard –The Man, His Boats, and Their Sailors]

This wonderful volume …

[WoodenBoat magazine on the first ever Lodestar Book, Holmes of the Humber]

Editing services: Copyediting – Line/stylistic editing 

Non-fiction categories: Anthologies and essays – Anthropology – Archaeology – Astronomy and cosmology – Biography, autobiography and memoir – Computer science and information technology – Crafts and hobbies – Ecology and conservation – Economics – Engineering – Environmental science – General non-fiction – Geography – History – Narrative non-fiction – Nature and the natural world – Philosophy – Physics – Politics and government – Publishing and book trade – Reference – Technology – Town and country planning – Transport – Travel writing – Urban planning – War and military 

Publication formats: Book (popular/general) – Book (specialist/academic) – Journal – Proposal – Public information – Reference work – Report – Technical document – Thesis/dissertation