Editing

I often take on freelance editing, both for publishers and private clients.

Editorial interventions range from a structural edit to proofreading and everything in between. I also help with crafting proposals and submission letters, and undertake manuscript assessments for publishers.

Testimonials

Frederic Raphael

You’re just the doctor I need! You have made a great difference to the shape and accuracy of the book and, in addition, been a pleasure to work with. I hope it’ll happen again. 

Mary Beard

I worked with Maren for years. She was fun and sharp and had a great eye for making good prose even better.

Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL

Founder and Publisher of Carcanet Press

Maren Meinhardt is an editor through and through: a style editor, a copy editor, a proof reader: she has a vocation that makes her cheerful in her work and a joy to deal with, especially because she calls a spade a spade and is admirably accurate in her detailed work. 

Andrew Latimer

Managing Editor at Carcanet Press

A masterclass in sensitive editing.

Gabriel Josipovici 

Thank you for your impressive and careful work on my book. 

Julia Adeney Thomas

That essay was a dead skunk, and you’ve brought it back to life.

Ingrid Wassenaar

author of Motherload

Her ability to be both rigorous and creative, and to dance between the two states, is peerless.

Ben Acheson 

author of The Pashtun Tribes in Afghanistan: Wolves Among Men

It is difficult to overstate Maren’s value. She came recommended to me by a publisher and, looking back, I cannot believe my luck. It quickly became clear that she is exactly the person I needed to get my book over the line and make it the best it can be. Not many others would be able to so quickly comprehend the vision I was working towards, and then identify what is needed to achieve it. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

Jack Van Zandt

co-author of Alexander Goehr: Composing a Life

We would like to express our appreciation and special thanks to our fabulous editor, Maren Meinhardt, for her diligence, dedication, keen eye, and many excellent suggestions. She was a delight to work with and the book is very much better because of her.

Jasper Becker

author of Made in China—Wuhan COVID and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy

Maren proved a very diligent and able editor, quick and responsive.

Garren Mulloy

author of Defenders of Japan

Maren greatly helped me by editing my book. There was no sense of an invasive editor, just someone making the book as good as it could possibly be.

Louise Fabiani

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Maren while she was at the TLS. In fact, it was she who first took me on, for which I will always be grateful. She always edited precisely, and allowed my voice to remain in whatever I wrote instead of imposing her own style. Also, her kindness consistently showed through all correspondence. I would work with her again in a flash.

Maren Meinhardt

maren @ marenmein.co.uk