A M Publishing New Zealand Adrienne Charlton

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PRIVATE PUBLISHING SERVICES
Editing, Proofreading, Photo Retouching, Book Design, Printing

Adrienne is that quintessential gem of an editor who makes your best work just so much better. She edited my new Superintendent Le Fanu crime novel, and it was a revelation working on it with her. Every assumption, name, location and all the rest was checked and double-checked (should there be a hyphen in there, Adrienne?). The human style manual let nothing go by, but that wasn’t the end. Adrienne also came up with some crucial points about story and character development that really helped put things fully in line. So she made the book into what it is now. 

Genre:

Skills:

  • Editing
  • Freelance Designer
  • Indexing
  • Proofreading

Branch:

Central Districts

Location:

Palmerston North

Publications:

Playing The Game – How Cricket Made Barbados

How was it that, for several generations, a Caribbean island of just 250,000 people produced the world’s best cricketers?“Irony abounds throughout this story of slavery, sugar, change, continuity and cricket”.

With the first-ever use of extensive Barbadian archives (public and private), secondary sources and interviews, and going way beyond C L R James’s influential Beyond a Boundary, Stoddart’s writing infuses history with his own experience of living that very history – by playing the game there.

In telling this remarkable story as both historian and participant player, Brian Stoddart also provides a powerful reminder of the significant role sport, generally, has played in reshaping the modern world and, in particular, how cricket made Barbados.

Published by AM Publishing New Zealand, June 2025.

Sarah's Destiny

By Vicky Adin, New Zealand historical fiction author. Published by A M Publishing New Zealand, April 2025.

I have known Adrienne in a professional capacity for 14 years as editor and proofreader of my eight historical fiction novels, and have complete faith in her eagled-eyed ability to find errors.

She is both efficient and reliable, with outstanding attention to detail, and aims for work to be as accurate as possible. Whether it is punctuation, spelling or grammar or oft-repeated words, Adrienne picks them up every time. She also helps me rewrite sentences in such a way as to reduce word count and be clearer in understanding.

Since I travel a lot and need to connect with her from various locations and at various times, I have found her to be flexible and prompt in replying. Over the years, I have come to rely on her ability greatly. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

R J H Hollis's World War II

Private war letters and diaries from WWII. By J Hollis, daughter of R J H Hollis.

More than I ever dared dream of.

This morning I opened my front door to get the morning paper and there on my verandah were two boxes of books! I’m a bit like a stunned mullet. It’s more than I ever dared dream of, thank you.  Especially for not rapidly retreating when presented with megabytes of confusion.