Zoe Wildsmith
editorial director
Zoe is an editor, writer and project manager with over 20 years of multimedia publishing experience, both in-house and as a freelancer. She has worked across a range of products, such as board games, digital map content, reference and trivia, online magazines, news articles, ebooks – the list goes on.
Through Zoe's work in markets around the world, she has developed a wide-reaching network of fellow writers, editors, proofers, fact-checkers, graphic designers and project managers. It's this superb collective of trusted freelancers that make up the extended Content Creation Company team. She also oversees our sister company, Websters International.
A true linguaphile, Zoe also speaks French, Spanish and Italian. She works with many American clients and is practised at editing in US English, too. Her love of languages also helped her attain a first class BA (Hons) in linguistics and French, and an MA with distinction in sociolinguistics.
Zoe shares her office with Isabel the cat, who is very much the silent partner in the business.
Through Zoe's work in markets around the world, she has developed a wide-reaching network of fellow writers, editors, proofers, fact-checkers, graphic designers and project managers. It's this superb collective of trusted freelancers that make up the extended Content Creation Company team. She also oversees our sister company, Websters International.
A true linguaphile, Zoe also speaks French, Spanish and Italian. She works with many American clients and is practised at editing in US English, too. Her love of languages also helped her attain a first class BA (Hons) in linguistics and French, and an MA with distinction in sociolinguistics.
Zoe shares her office with Isabel the cat, who is very much the silent partner in the business.
Julie Grislain-higoNnet
French lead Editor
Julie is a translator, editor and project manager. Trilingual (French, English and Italian) thanks to an international upbringing, she has teamed with The Content Creation Company for over five years on a wide range of projects.
Her passion for literature and languages, combined with an equally strong passion for the arts, led her to obtain a BA in comparative literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, and an MA degree in art history and museum science at the École du Louvre, both in Paris.
Julie has a predilection for projects related to the world of art, design and fashion for which she has worked as a translator, editor and journalist. Over the years, she has also worked for environmental NGOs and economic think tanks.
She shares her office with Spritz the cat who knocks things over from her desk to let her know it's time to stop.
Her passion for literature and languages, combined with an equally strong passion for the arts, led her to obtain a BA in comparative literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, and an MA degree in art history and museum science at the École du Louvre, both in Paris.
Julie has a predilection for projects related to the world of art, design and fashion for which she has worked as a translator, editor and journalist. Over the years, she has also worked for environmental NGOs and economic think tanks.
She shares her office with Spritz the cat who knocks things over from her desk to let her know it's time to stop.
charlotte raveney
chief contributor
Charlotte has worked with Zoe for over 15 years on a broad spectrum of projects, including board games, news articles and crossword puzzles. Charlotte is a creative question writer, an accomplished editor and an eagle-eyed fact-checker.
She deftly manages international projects, keeping the other freelance resources on brief and on time, wherever they are around the world. She is especially good at getting to the heart of clients' needs, understanding who the target audience is and how to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Charlotte's love for geography led her to attaining a degree in Chinese and Oriental Studies at Oxford University, and she also speaks some Arabic and German as well as her native English.
Charlotte shares her office with Billy the budgie. He is most definitely not a silent partner.
She deftly manages international projects, keeping the other freelance resources on brief and on time, wherever they are around the world. She is especially good at getting to the heart of clients' needs, understanding who the target audience is and how to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Charlotte's love for geography led her to attaining a degree in Chinese and Oriental Studies at Oxford University, and she also speaks some Arabic and German as well as her native English.
Charlotte shares her office with Billy the budgie. He is most definitely not a silent partner.