During the pandemic, most of my usual work as a musician disappeared. I took the enforced lay-off as an opportunity to diversify; I did some training in proofreading and completed The Publishing Training Centre’s Essential Copy-Editing course, passing with a Merit grade. While doing the course, I co-edited noted jazz-author Sammy Stein’s most recent book, and I have recently been helping authors at a couple of writers groups.

I am now looking forward to splitting my time between copy-editing and my current musical project, Archie the Goldfish.