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ABN: 96 571 493 472 Experience: Over 14 years’ experience editing over 100 fiction and non-fiction titles. Currently senior editor Jessica Perini Editorial Services (freelance). Structural/copy editor of fiction titles including Bite Me! (Random House, 1999) and Deja Vu (Random House, 2000) by John Larkin; and How to Lie, Cheat and Steal Your Way to the Top (Paper Clip Press, 2004) by Frank Adoranti. Structural/copy editor of non-fiction titles including Tom Griffiths Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (UNSW Press, 2007), Joint-winner of the 2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History; Winner of The Douglas Stewart Prize at the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards; Winner of the Non-fiction Prize at the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards; Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award 2007; Historica's Women (Millennium House, 2007); One Sun One Moon (Art Gallery of NSW, 2007); Peter Spearritt The Sydney Harbour Bridge: A Life, 75th Anniversary Edition (UNSW Press, 2007); Peta Stephenson The Outsiders Within: Telling Australia’s Indigenous–Asian Story (UNSW Press, 2007); and Lowy Institute Papers River at Risk: The Mekong and the Water Politics of China and Southeast Asia and India: The Next Economic Giant (Longueville Media, 2004). Author of non-fiction Young Reed: Environment, Saving Our Planet (New Holland, 2008); Focus on Issues: Refugees (Watts Publishing Australia and New Zealand, 2003) and articles for New Matilda, NewsWrite, www.chilout.org and the Asylum Seekers’ Centre Newsletter. Contributor, Robin Grille, Parenting for a Peaceful World (Longueville Media, 2005); Stephanie Dowrick, Creative Journal Writing (Allen & Unwin, 2007); St George Cathedral and Its People (Longueville Media, 2005). Honours thesis, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Debate on Allied War Aims 1917-1918. Co-author The Write Stuff, anthology of short stories (Sutherland Council Press, 1991); and If You Cry You Won’t See Me in Your Dreams, poetry anthology (Macarthur University Press, 1991). Qualifications: BA (Communications/History), Hons (History); publishing and editing course (NSW Writers’ Centre). Computer capability: Mac and PC Word. Services offered: Copy editing, manuscript assessment, manuscript development, plain English rewriting, proofreading, structural editing and book cover photography. Type of material: General non-fiction, fiction, children’s books, encyclopedias (legal). Subject specialities: Environment, creative writing, history (modern), travel, health, law, mass communications. |
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