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Bothersome Words Editing & Writing Services |
Bothersome Words Editing & Writing Services Abigail Nathan Experience: Abigail has extensive experience in the publishing industry editing books and magazines. This includes fiction and non-fiction manuscripts, legal and educational material, corporate and leisure titles and much more. She has worked for book publishers including HarperCollins Publishers and Pearson Education, and legal publishers such as LexisNexis and CCH. She has subedited and written for magazine and newspaper publishers including Reed Business Information, Text Pacific, News Ltd and Fairfax. As a copywriter she has written promotional material, advertising campaigns and direct mail for companies including Text Pacific, eQuip, Strandbags and Doubleday Book and Music Clubs. She also works with independent authors, private companies and government departments. Qualifications: BA in English Literature, with additional focus on Critical and Cultural Studies and Philosophy. Computer capability:Equally comfortable with PC or Mac platforms; experienced with Microsoft Windows XP and Office 2003 and 2007; Quark, QuarkXPress; InDesign CS2 and CS3; Adobe Acrobat; Dreamweaver (Macromedia 8, CS3); coding languages HTML, SGML, XML. Services offered: Editing; structural editing; copy editing; proofreading; manuscript assessment and review; sub-editing; formatting; copy-fitting; writing/ re-writing; plain English re-writing; copywriting. Type of material:Magazines; fiction and non-fiction manuscripts; PR and marketing materials; legal publications; technical documents; corporate and business publications; newsletters; annual reports; educational books/ textbooks; tax and accounting publications; on-line material. Subject specialities:General fiction (especially science fiction/ fantasy, crime, ‘chick lit’); popular culture; philosophy; psychology; social sciences; education; health and fitness; business; management; law; occupational health and safety; commercial property; technology. Special skills/interests: Speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror etc) specialist; special interest in philosophy/psychology/critical theory texts; trained legal editor. |
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