Paul Convery

About Paul

Paul Convery is a Glasgow-based ‘word doctor’ with over 20 years’ experience as a proofreader, copy-editor and magazine production manager. A lifelong logophile, he is the author of DRINKTIONARY: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Drinker (Book Guild, 2017), and INKHORN’S EROTONOMICON: An Advanced Sexual Vocabulary for Verbivores and Vulgarians (Matador, 2012). His earlier academic grounding includes postgraduate language studies and doctoral research in modern European history.

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