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Alan Ford Edits

All Things Written Pty Ltd

Allen, Ben

Allen, Tina K

Amanda Reid Editorial Services

Appleton, Robin

Avigdor, Jo

Appleton, Robin

ABN 76 577 102 762
PO Box 201 Potts Point NSW 1335
Tel: (02) 9731 1879 Fax: (02) 9731 1879
Email: rapple@live.com

Experience: In-house: educational, academic, and trade houses.

Course presenter intrastate and interstate in corporations, universities, educational centres, publishing houses, and writers groups; guest speaker

Editorial training: In-house, 1960s

Many professional development courses.

Computer capability: On-line editing, design.

Services offered: Editing, proofreading, indexing, training (one-to-one or groups), mentoring.

Type of material: Fiction, character development; reference, trade, academic journals, script editing/writing; encyclopedic editing.

Subject specialities: Histories (pre-history, ancient, medieval, and modern); economics; agriculture; geography; socio-political subjects; travel; environment; art; ethics.

Special skills/interests: Eye for detail and interest in good copy-editing and plain English; negotiating and training. Well-travelled and interested in non-fiction manuscripts in particular.

Positions: Editor in educational publishing house; university publishing house, trade house.

Honorary Life Member of the Society of Editors (NSW) Inc.; a former committee member and a former president of the society.

Inaugural Editor-in-Residence to an Australian University.