Hi! I’m Bushra
An accidental copyeditor who helps STM businesses like yours get flawless manuscripts ready on time
How I accidentally became a copyeditor
17 years ago if you’d told me I’d set up a copyediting business, build a talented team, and find multiple long-term clients, I’d have asked:
“What’s copyediting?”
I can only thank my husband who sneakily sent my resume for the role of Assistant Manager, Copyediting at Thomson Press … because they actually hired me.
That was in 2004.
A lot has happened since then ...
- My detail-oriented nature sharpened my copyediting skills at a surprising speed
- A PhD in Biosciences and Masters in Biotechnology helped me edit STM manuscripts with relative ease
- I spent the next decade learning and leading copyeditors at McMillan, Wiley, Pearson, and other major publishers
- I passed the coveted BELS examination and became a certified Editor in the Life Sciences
- My husband and I bought our first house and to see it get ready I quit my job and became a full-time freelancer
- I found clients around the world—Turkey, Saudi Arabia, China, the Middle East, the US, the UK—and forged a relationship that continues with many even after 5 years
- I built a team of select editors to keep my growing number of clients satisfied and helped more talented people enjoy the freedom of freelance life
My goals today are simple
Help my clients do great work —publish high-quality papers, impress more customers, and grow their businesses—steadily
Help my team (and me) pursue our passion while enjoying the freedom to work from anywhere on our own time
What people like you say about my work ...
“Competent and highly commendable”
“Dr Bushra Rashid has been rendering her copyediting services for us since October 2011. She has assisted our Senior Editor with medical copyediting of articles to be published in our journal, which we print bimonthly (a total of 6 issues per year.) During this time and up to the present, we have been extremely satisfied with Dr Rashid’s professionalism and editing skills. Her experience of more than a decade in the medical copyediting and publishing industry makes her competent and highly commendable.”
—Editorial Assistant, Publications Office, a hospital in Saudi Arabia
“It’s already been six years since we first started taking professional language editing help from her”
“Dr Bushra is one of the editors we have worked with for the longest time. It’s already been six years since we first started taking professional language editing help from her. She is accessible and approachable and keeps our clients happy with her work. Even when the articles have short deadlines, she does her best to finish them on time and perfectly. It’s our pleasure to work with her”
—Customer Manager, Editorial Agency, China
“Methodical, passionate and energetic in her day-to-day editorial task”
“During the course of the development of the manuscript to publication, I found that she is methodical, passionate and energetic in her day-to-day editorial task. Her (Bushra’s) approach, to eliminate plagiarism and ambiguity, and maintain a uniform style with clarity of expression and refined language, is commendable.”
—HV Nema, Professor of Ophthalmology at Banaras Hindu University, India