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Lyndsay Oliver is an experienced nonfiction editor with a background in developing leading textbooks and digital resources for the higher education market.
After working in-house on the business and management list at Sage Publishing and as a development editor at Palgrave, Macmillan, she now offers freelance developmental, project management, and copyediting services to publishers and independent authors. Previous clients include Bloomsbury, Sage, Learning Matters, and Rethink Press.
Lyndsay has expertise in a wide range of subject areas, including business, psychology, nursing, sociology, and research methods. Lyndsay also has particular subject expertise in law, having earned law degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the College of Law and spent several years working as a qualified solicitor before moving into publishing.
Lyndsay has a keen eye for content development and a warm, collaborative approach. She is an enthusiastic, dedicated, and analytical editor with meticulous attention to detail.
Testimonials
"Lyndsay is a talented editor with a natural aptitude for content development. She is hardworking, efficient, and extremely skilled.” - Isabel Berwick, Digital Development Editor, The Open University
"Lyndsay... is a very capable and talented publishing professional and lent her excellent skills to a number of key projects on the Business list [at Macmillan International Higher Education]. I was particularly impressed by her superb research abilities, her strong communication skills, and her meticulous and methodical approach to content development. I also found Lyndsay to be engaging, affable, and collaborative." - Isabelle Cheng, Senior Commissioning Editor, Kogan Page
"Lyndsay is a pleasure to work with… she was very communicative, prompt, and thoughtful in her responses. Her work was thorough and comments very helpful… I would 100% recommend using Lyndsay to edit your book!" - Abbey Baker
"Lyndsay provided an honest, direct, and—most importantly—strategic development report that strengthened both the conceptual foundation and the applied elements of the work. Her guidance on structure, consolidation, and flow was especially valuable, along with her insights on better framing the applied tools so readers clearly understand how to use them effectively. Both the report and the in-manuscript comments were clear and actionable, providing strong direction and confidence for the next phase." - Alan Boyer