About

Hello - welcome to my website. You will see that it covers both sides of my business: publishing services and fine art sales.

I am an experienced freelance copy editor and publishing services provider, and have been working in the world of books since graduating from the University of Kent at Canterbury in English and History of Art.

Following a brief interlude as a bookseller, I worked in sales and marketing for a number of London publishers, including Golden Cockerel Press; Associated University Presses; Financial Training Publications (later Blackstone Press); Butterworths; and Thames and Hudson.

While working as a publicity copywriter by day – and later as in-house writer for a major insurance company – I developed a freelance editorial career which turned into a full-time business in 1989. Alongside copy editing came an interest in exploring the potential of the then-new field of desktop publishing. Together with my husband, I set up Doyle & Co in 1990, offering editorial, typesetting and print production services to publishers of books and journals, specialising in law, accountancy and finance.

Doyle & Co grew steadily over the years, taking on additional staff and occupying several different offices before settling in a converted stable at the bottom of the Doyle family garden. Recent innovations in typesetting and the way that many publishers prepare text for print, however, have been reflected in a change of emphasis at Doyle & Co, which is now based on Mersea Island and concentrating primarily on editorial services and design.

For details of the services currently offered, please click on the 'publishing' link (above left).

I now also sell art online - original paintings and limited edition signed prints by artists Rachel Sharp and David Britton. Click on 'art galleries' to see what's currently for sale.

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My Race for Life 2008 page can be found at www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/julietdoyle1 

My blog, 'Musings from a Muddy Island', is at julietdoyle.blogspot.com

I've posted my grandfather's First and Second World War reminiscences on their own site at e-d-deane-war-memoirs.blogspot.com/

Stroodcam continues to enthral. Watch us live, as we become completely cut off from the mainland when the tide covers the Strood (causeway). At low tide, you can see cars driving on and off the island. Don't miss this thrilling glimpse of life on Britain's most easterly inhabited island, click here: www.stroodcam.co.uk .

To learn more about Mersea, see our island website at www.west-mersea.co.uk or go to the 'Muddy Island links' on my blog.