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ABN: 90 064 607 703 Experience: A highly skilled, versatile editor and project manager with wide experience in book and magazine publishing, ranging from educational and professional to general non-fiction, illustrated reference and lifestyle. Freelance editor and publishing consultant, July 2003 to date: Elsevier, Lansdowne, Macquarie Library, National Library of Australia, New Holland, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Perth Mint, Reader's Digest General Books, Sally Milner, Thomson, UNSW Press, Weldon Owen, and self-publishing authors. Reader's Digest General Books: Editor-in-Chief, 1996–2003; Project Editor, then Executive Editor 1993–96. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: Senior Production Editor, 1988–93. Freelance writer and book editor, 1985–88. Reader’s Digest magazine researcher and subeditor (1982–85). Qualifications: BA (Hons French), MA (French), Exeter University, UK. Computer capability: Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress, InDesign, Excel on a Mac platform. Services offered: Full project management to final files, substantive and structural editing, copy-editing, copy-fitting, research, writing, rewriting, concept and manuscript development, proofreading. Type of material: Illustrated reference and lifestyle; general non-fiction; educational and professional; reports and corporate publications. Subject specialities: Reference
and lifestyle: computers, cooking, craft, DIY, gardening, history,
health, nature, nostalgia, travel, general knowledge. Special skills/interests: Ability to manage complex projects to tight deadlines; flexibility to work in UK, US or Australian style; experienced in making complex topics accessible to the general reader; strong rewriting skills; high level of creative ability; specialist in popular information and lifestyle books, adaptation of UK and US books for ANZ market, and reconfiguration of existing content for spin-offs and other channels.
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