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Actually Words (Moya Healey)
Susan Addison
Jennifer Beale
Biotext (Meg Heaslop)
Roberta
Blake
Helena Bond
Rino Breebaart
Moira Brown
Actually Words (Moya Healey)
60 Fenwick Drive
East Ballina NSW 2478
Tel: 02 6686 4243
Mobile: 0427 042 607
Email: actually.words@gmail.com
Availability: Part-time
Services offered: Documentation preparation service including administration, editing and proofreading.
Special interests: Manuscripts/publications; academic theses/assignments; annual business reports and educational material (Government, corporate non-profit business sectors).
Experience: Manuscript editing; editing for students from the School of Law & Justice (Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW); copy-editing and proofreading for Lifestyle Learning Direct's (The Writing School) Editing and Proofreading course. I am precise, logical and focussed and I have extensive experience working in administration within the Commonwealth Public Service, accounting, insurance and employment industries, covering tasks that include: accounting; payroll; business/financial reports (research, editing and proofreading); development of financial systems, protocols and strategies; and the preparation and development of policy and procedure manuals.
Other relevant experience: Computer competencies include: MS Word; MS Excel; MS Internet Explorer; MS Outlook; Attache Business Partner (accounting and payroll software); FileMaker Pro (Database development/management system).
Qualifications: Study and completion certificate in Editing & Proofreading with Lifestyle Learning Direct. This course is accredited with the International Accreditation and Recognition Council (IARC).
Special skills: Community Service Award received from the Australian Taxation Office; Local Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Business After Hours Coordinator; Local Business Awards Adjudicator; and the establishment and development of the first local community, private employment agency.
Susan Addison
93 McCaul Street
Taringa Qld 4068
Tel:
07 3871 1042
Fax: 07 3871 1044
Email:
addiss@ozemail.com.au
Availability: Part-time.
Services offered: Editing of non-fiction, reports and theses; conversion of documents to plain English.
Experience: Journalist in Brisbane, London, PNG, 1970-82; self-employed editor, journalist and writer in Brisbane since 1983; editor of Queensland Law Society’s monthly magazine, Proctor, 1985–93; editor-in-residence for Griffith University postgraduate students since 1995.
Other relevant experience: Teaches in Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing course at USQ. Conducts workshops in professional written communication and academic writing. Co-author of A Good Plain Cook: An Edible History of Queensland published by Queensland Museum, 1999; author of collection of short stories published by UQP in 2001.
Qualifications: BA, Dip Journalism, LLB.
Special skills: Believes dialogue between editor and writer achieves better results than ‘invisible editing’.
Jennifer Beale
17 Norinda Street
Sunnybank Qld 4109
Tel:
07 3345 4353
ABN: 89 803 794 917
Availability: Full-time.
Services offered: Editing, newsletters, project management, proofreading, research, writing.
Special interests: Academic writing, history (family and local), reference books, theses.
Experience: Academic journals, academic writing and thesis preparation, bibliographies and reference lists in designated styles, copyediting, family and local history, music research, project management, proofreading.
Qualifications: MA (Musicology), MLS, BEdSt, Teaching Certificates (Primary, Music), Dip Ed Pub (TAFE).
Special skills: Editing English writing by authors whose first language is not English.
Biotext (Meg Heaslop)
14 Horan Street
West End Qld 4101
Tel:
07 3844 4004
Mobile: 0418 730 942
Fax:
07 3846 7144
Email:
meg.heaslop@biotext.com.au
Web
site: http://www.biotext.com.au
Availability: Full-time.
Services offered: Science research, writing and editing (substantive and copyediting).
Special interests: Health, agriculture and the environment.
Experience: Biotext science information consultant (since March 2005).
Other relevant experience: Science writer for the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution, New Zealand (November 2004 to February 2005).
Qualifications: BSc, Graduate Certificate (Mol. Cell Biol.), BSocSci (Hons, Archaeology), Graduate Diploma (SciComm).
Special skills: Science communication (from original research through to copyediting and design management).
Roberta Blake
35 Wharf Street
Shorncliffe Qld 4017
Tel (home): 07 3869 2549
Tel (work): 07 3257
1176
Mobile: 0418 121 813
Email:
roberta.r.blake@gmail.com
Availability: Full- or part-time
Services offered: Publishing advice, copy editing and structural editing, book design, design and layout, typesetting, project management, proofreading, research, writing.
Special interests: Academic and nonfiction publishing.
Experience: Over 20 years experience in the printing and publishing industries in various sectors, including newspaper production, design studios, tradehouses, diary publishing, legal transcription services, academic journals and books.
Qualifications: Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing & Editing), RMIT; Master of Editing and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
Special skills: Project management: ability to follow through production from concept to print and/or e-publication, including graphic design and typesetting; academic publishing.
Helena Bond
30 Sexton Street
Highgate Hill Qld 4101
Tel:
07 3255 1480
Fax: by arrangement
Email:
me@HelenaBond.com
Web
site: http://www.HelenaBond.com
Availability: Part-time (please enquire for more details).
Services offered: Editing, magazines, newsletters, proofreading, writing.
Special interests: Children’s books, computer skills, educational books (primary, tertiary and above), languages (French, Mandarin), marketing, reference books, technical how-to materials, web sites.
Experience: Editing since 1990. Experience in Australia, England and Taiwan with all kinds of non-fiction: books, business and government publications, CD-ROMs, web sites, periodicals and ephemera. Fiction editing since 2001. Editing, re-structuring, formatting, writing, and developing and delivering training.
Qualifications: BA (1989), Life Coaching (2001); Continuous Improvement and Innovation (2004)
Special skills: Flexible, adaptable and love working in partnership with writers and publishers. Strong on structural and substantive editing. MS Word power user.
Rino Breebaart
2 Phoenix Close,
The Gap QLD 4061
Mobile:
0448 966 409
Email: editor@slowreview.com
URL:
http://www.slowreview.com/rino
Availability: Part-time
Services offered: Editing and proofing, writing, Search Engine Optimisation.
Special interests: Criticism, essays, reviews & fiction. Writing for the Internet.
Experience: Tourism Queensland, Dept of Main Roads, Yahoo Search Marketing, Choice magazine, Urban Cinefile, PopMatters.com, St James Ethics Centre, UNSW.
Other relevant experience: Interviewing, podcast production, content development, CMS management, style guides & HTML editing.
Qualifications: BA in English and Philosophy.
Special skills: SEO and online publishing & writing.
Moira Brown
5 Celeste Court, Wynnum West Qld 4178
Phone:
(07) 3893 1252
Fax: (07) 3893 1252
Mobile:
0416 097 629
Email:
brown5moira@yahoo.com.au
ABN:
74 471 263 689
Availability: Full-time
Services offered: Indexing (books, journals, annual reports, newsletters), editing, proofreading and research.
Special interests: Annual/business reports, the arts, biography, children’s books, educational books — primary, secondary, tertiary and above; fiction, history and reference books.
Experience: Created index for Saving Tax on Your Investment Property by Noel Whittaker & Julia Hartman (2008). Indexed 6 years Interface (Queensland Transport in-house journal) for Main Roads Department Library. Indexed two biographies (scientific/educational, aeronautical/wartime). Proofreading engineering thesis, secondary and tertiary level assignments. Six and a half years experience as Librarian with Queensland State Library in Archives, Reference, Cataloguing, Collections/Acquisitions. Twenty years in small business incorporating accounting, GST and customer service.
Qualifications: BA (JCU), majoring in Australian, South East Asian, European History, and Macro Economics; Basic and Intermediate Indexing courses through Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers; archival/family research in Queensland State Archives and John Oxley Library.