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Page, Catherine

Parbury, Anne AE

Partridge, Isabel

Patricia Potts Editorial Services

Pearson Publication Services

Perini, Jessica

Persimmon Press

Pickard, Claire

Pirie, Chris DE

Pope, Sally

Potter, Meryl DE

Potts, Patricia

Perini, Jessica

ABN: 96 571 493 472
4/3 Kensington Mews, Waterloo NSW 2017
Tel: 0410 50 7137
Email: perini.jessica@gmail.com
Web: www.bookster.com.au

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.