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Sorrel Packham – Design | Artwork | Typesetting

I have over 16 years of typesetting and design experience in publishing working for Walker Books Ltd, HarperCollins Children’s Books, Simon & Schuster and Bloomsbury. I specialise in children’s books but work across all age ranges from baby and pre-school to middle-grade and YA. I have also typeset adult texts for imprints of Hodder & Stoughton and Hachette and study guides for the University of London.

I provide fast turnaround from initial cast-off and type-styling, including any text emphasis, to art and illustration placement, taking in editorial corrections and design direction to produce final print ready files for press and archive. I work with raw text or pre-styled/pre-formatted assets, applying design consistently for publisher, author, character and series styles to produce covers, insides and accompanying marketing materials.

I am used to and confident in carrying multiple projects at any one time, managing my workload to fulfil scheduling demands. I work remotely but can work on site if required.

 

Please see my portfolio site for examples of my work: https://sorrelsays.com/

Palimpsest Book Production Ltd

Palimpsest Book Production Ltd are the UK’s market leader in typesetting, digital and pre-press services for the publishing world.

Our success is based on our commitment to excellence, our attention to detail and our huge love for books! These attributes have helped us to produce over 60,000 titles in the last 27 years.

From our core expertise as highly skilled typesetters, to our innovative digital workflow, we offer the complete package for publishers & self-publishing authors. We became an employee-owned company in 2018, which has allowed the management team and staff to work together and successfully move the business forward.

Examples of our titles include: The Midnight Library (Matt Haig), Tall Tales and Wee Stories (Billy Connolly), Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman), More Moaning (Karl Pilkington), Black and British (David Olusoga), Me (Elton John), The Foundling (Stacey Halls) and Word Perfect (Susie Dent).

For more title snapshots, please visit our gallery: https://www.palimpsest-bp.co.uk/gallery

Our clients include: HarperCollinsPublishers, Hodder & Stoughton, WF Howes, Severn House, Pan Macmillan, Canongate, Headline, Bonnier, Arcturus and Little, Brown Book Group.

Knight Errant Press

Knight Errant Press is an independent publisher based in Falkirk, Scotland.

We saw a definite lack of distinctly queer publishing and decided to step up. We want to empower writers to write more openly and more queerly and to not shy away from drawing on and portraying experiences that are important to them simply because the majority of the publishing world is failing to represent them in their fullness and variety.  Knight Errant runs on the efforts and support of part-time staff and freelancers, we aim to publish at least two books per calendar year. More is not always better and we prefer to put everything we’ve got into the few books we make to make them the best they can be.

We publish a variety of work – fiction, poetry, flash fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels and comics – and are particularly keen on short form and on work that is intersectional and challenges literary genres and societal norms.

Our ultimate aim is to bring to the world more stories written by, from and about LGBTQIA+, BAME/POC, working class folk, people with disabilities as well as migrants and the displaced. As well as being the bridge for these narratives and stories from cultures and languages outwith the Anglophone sphere of influence by supporting translators and publishing works and authors in translation.

In addition to our print and online publishing activities, we run creative writing workshops that aim to support writers of all levels of experience in order to gain confidence, learn new skills and demystify publishing. These workshops are run online and locally across the central belt of Scotland.

Publications (Yearly Average): 2

Established: 2017

Submission details: Knight Errant Press accepts unsolicited manuscripts, however we have a few criteria that we look for and are not open for submissions year round. We only accept email submissions. Please check what projects are open before submitting. To find out more information about our submissions criteria, current projects and how to submit a manuscript please go to the submissions page.

Types of books published: social commentary anthologies and non-fiction, short story and poetry collections, contemporary fiction, flash fiction, comics and graphic novels, creative non-fiction.

A video about the press and our work: https://youtu.be/9dAqOvRcDaE