Cross Editorial, Manchester (2026)

I am a freelance copy-editor and proofreader who has worked on numerous publications for major UK publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Edinburgh University Press, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and Omnibus Press among others. My areas of focus are the fields of media, entertainment, popular culture, fiction, history, business, and academic publications. I also offer copy writing and ghostwriting ser

vices and have written regular articles for the animation magazine Cereal:Geek. I have an extremely strong eye for detail and am skilled at spotting the smallest and subtlest of errors and ensuring publications appear as professional and error-free as possible. I am also highly adept at raising queries with the author where necessary to ensure the text is presented as close to the author's intentions as possible. My work has been highly commended by the publishers and writers I have worked for. A Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders (CIEP), I offer my services to publishers of books and magazines, independent writers, authors, businesses, academics, and students. I am fully skilled in BSI markup symbols and am able to read blind or against copy, and work onscreen or on paper. I promise an efficient, expedient, and professional service, and will do everything within my means to ensure your publications and documents achieve the intended effect on the reader. My specialist subject areas include:

Ancient History and Archaeology
Biography
British History
Broadcast Media
Contemporary History
Culture and Media Studies
Drama
Fiction
Film Studies
Game Studies
Gender and Media
Gothic Horror Literature & Cinema
History
Journalism
Megalithic Monuments and Sites
Music Subcultures
Performing Arts
Pop/Rock Music
Science Fiction
Soho Culture
Television Studies
Theatre
Visual Arts

I charge reasonable rates specific to individual projects. Please email me at [email protected] with details of the work required, and I will respond promptly. Client Testimonials

"Aidan is all you would wish for in a proofreader; an exacting eye for detail, an interest in the subject, and advice that genuinely betters your work. What I most appreciated was that his suggestions were always positive and most importantly, nothing he offered rode roughshod over my meaning." Daryl Easlea
Author

“Aidan has proofread over 70 documents for the University of Law throughout 2014, as part of our University-wide review of all policies and procedures. He has provided speedy responses, always well within deadline, and picked up on not only typographical errors but also inconsistencies in formatting, terminology and content. We have been delighted with his professionalism and accuracy and will certainly utilise his services again as we continue to review our documentation.”

Joanna Wagstaffe
Academic Registrar
The University of Law

“I have commissioned Aidan Cross to proofread a number of Omnibus Press books and have always found his work to be of a high standard and completed within the agreed time limits. Omnibus specialises in books about contemporary music, so it is an additional bonus that Aidan is widely informed on this subject.”

Chris Charlesworth
Managing Editor
Omnibus Press

'Aidan at Megaproof gives committed and diligent service and is lovely to work with. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Megaproof.'

Zoë Howe
Author

“Aidan is a friendly, fantastic proofreader. I have English as an additional language and found his proofreading abilties an amazing help for my academic essay. He was good at grasping what I was trying to say and improving the clarity of my language, as well as correcting any inconsistency in grammar and spelling. I was really grateful that he worked well under the tight deadline I asked him to meet in a last-minute essay panic. I would not hesitate to recommend him to anyone who needs an efficient and reliable resource to work with.”

Mizuho Kondo
Student

25/01/2025

09/07/2023

Even road workers can need proofreaders.

25/09/2020

An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking ci**rs.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

- Jill Thomas Doyle

14/02/2020

Rebranded with a new business name, new website and new services on offer! View the new website below:

Welcome to Cross Editorial I am an experienced freelance copy-editor and proofreader and a Professional Member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP). I provide editorial services to publishing houses, typesetting agencies, businesses, independent authors and EFL students. About Me Copy-...

25/10/2019

23/10/2019

I now offer copy-editing services in addition to proofreading, ghostwriting and copywriting. Please take a look at the updated website for details!

http://megaproof.co.uk/

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