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Lamberton, Kathryn

Lang, Rebecca

Lavelle, Keren

Lawson, Kerrie ELS, AE

Leslie, Paul

Littlemore, Linda Ann

Lockhart, Saul

Luckie, Rae

Lang, Rebecca

ABN: 81 351 442 427
PO Box 5, Hazelbrook, NSW, 2779
Tel/Mob: 0416 018 854
Email: Rebecca@rebeccalang.com.au
Web: www.rebeccalang.com.au

Experience: More than six years' experience sub-editing within metropolitan newspapers and magazines. Author of non-fiction books Focus on Issues: Resources (Watts Publishing Australia and New Zealand, 2004) and Australian Big Cats: An Unnatural History (Strange Nation Publishing, 2010); contributor to Fortean Times Paranormal Handbook (Dennis Publishing, 2009). Author of various articles for The Sunday Telegraph, Sun Herald, Australian Country Style, Blue Mountains Life, Hawkesbury Life, Body + Soul, Sydney's Child, Melbourne's Child, Hawkesbury Gazette, North Shore Times, Herald Sun (Melbourne), Fortean Times (UK), Phenomena (US), Animals & Men (UK); presently a book reviewer for Cumberland-Courier Newspapers.

Qualifications: Journalism cadetship (1992); journalism law course (1993); journalism exchange to Germany (1994); sub-editing course (2003); investigative journalism course (2004); management course (2007). Also a professional member of NSW Writers’ Centre and Society of Women Writers NSW Inc.

Computer capability: PC and Mac - Microsoft Word, Cybergraphics, Pongrass, Quark, InDesign.

Services offered: Plain English writing, corporate writing, ghostwriting, copy editing, proofreading, structural editing, speech writing.

Type of material: General non-fiction and fiction (adult and children's), manuals, journals, magazines, newspapers, PR material/brochures, marketing collateral, newsletters, annual reports, educational texts, journal articles, website content, resumes.

Subject specialities: Popular culture, art/craft, journalism, health, popular science, environment, biography, philosophy/religion, mind/body/spirit, gardening, true crime, natural sciences.

Special skills/interests: Business and government publications, permaculture, self sufficiency, environment, history, archaeology, anthropology, journalism, mind/body/spirit.