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Living Proof – Book Editing
Experience: Twenty-one years as a self-employed editor for book-publishing companies, government departments, corporations and self-publishers, and 16 years as an editorial-training consultant. Editing: Recent clients and jobs include RailCorp, on track quarterly staff magazine and Annual Report 2008–09; Antoine Kazzi, Brilliant Faces; Melanie Tonia Evans, Breaking the Chains of Painful Love and Take Back Your Power; Hill & Knowlton, Subway FreshFit Challenge website text; Messenger Publishing, website text; Rob Learnx, Dynamic Brain Consciousness website text; Ashley Burton, Song of the Feathered Dragon; Aaron Cootes, Little Cub and the Golden Arrow of Truth; Verity Marshall, Hard Money; Jason Gillespie with Lawrie Colliver, Dizzy: The Jason Gillespie Story; Brian Hancock, As Well I Remember: Journeys to Colonial Australia by Soldier, Sailor, Convict and Free Immigrant; Animal Liberation NSW, Achievements in 2009 bulletin; and Anthony O’Grady, Australian Rock History course outline. Editorial training: Ongoing clients include Sydney University’s Centre for Continuing Education, for Grammar and Punctuation Fundamentals and Grammar and Punctuation Advanced; Sydney Writers’ Centre, for Grammar and Punctuation Essentials; and the NSW Writers’ Centre and WEA Sydney, for Professional Editing. Recent corporate clients include AMP, the RTA and HarperCollinsPublishers. Writing: Recent examples include Grey Areas and Gremlins: A Grammar and Punctuation Refresher (self-published fourth edition), 2009 CityRail Timetable: Staff Pocket Guide (introductory text; RailCorp) and Lap Bands and Laughter (marketing material; Jodi Williams; Messenger Publishing). Qualifications: BA (English), part-LLB (Sydney). Computer capability: Windows XP, Word 2003, Acrobat 7.0. Services offered: Copy editing; structural editing; developmental editing; writing; copy writing; rewriting; proofreading; illustrating; editorial training (generic and customised). Type of material: Editing of all types of publication and all genres: fiction, non-fiction, and ‘trade’ books; corporate publications; journals; and self-published books. Subject specialities: Grammar and punctuation, plain English, art and design. Good general knowledge. Special skills/interests: Australian pop-rock history, the philosophy of veganism and animal rights, and adding sizzle and sparkle to anything! |
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