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Felicity McKenzie Editorial Solutions
Leigh Findlay
Greenslade Creations
Marianne Hayward
Robyn Heales
Lesley Humphrey
Helen Kershaw Editing Services
Felicity McKenzie Editorial Solutions
18 Curlewis Street
Holland Park Qld 4121
Tel: 07 3324 2565
Fax: 07 3324 2565
Email: felicitymckenzie@keypoint.com.au
Availability: Full-time.
Services offered: Editing, production supervision, project management, proofreading.
Special interests: Annual/business reports, biography, children’s books, educational books (primary, secondary, tertiary and above), fiction, history, reference books.
Experience: 15 years editing and project management in-house at Jacaranda Wiley. 10 years freelance editing for publishers such as University of Queensland Press, McGraw-Hill and Pearson Education and various government departments.
Qualifications: BA (History, Politics, Sociology), Teaching Certificate.
Special skills: Educational texts, history, biography, young-adult fiction.
Leigh Findlay - True Nature Professional Editing Services
46 Curramore Road
Maleny Qld 4552
Tel: 07 5494 4340
Mob: 0408 786 186
Email: leighfindlay.truenature@bigpond.com
Availability: Part-time
Services offered: Academic and science writing and editing; copy and substantive editing of fiction and non-fiction; editing of corporate documents; proofreading (including academic theses); writing; research.
Special interests: Wildlife, ecology and conservation writing; science writing and editing (especially biological, environmental, veterinary and biomedical sciences); Indigenous issues; complementary therapies.
Experience: Academic writing-editing (especially journal articles, text books); medical writing-editing; editing of corporate documents; fiction and non-fiction manuscript appraisal; published author (short stories and articles).
Other relevant experience: University level teaching and research; veterinary clinical practice; business development
Qualifications: PhD, BVSc (hons), Dip Vet Acup
Special skills: Editing of scientific articles for publication in peer reviewed journals; translating complicated technical text into user-friendly text for specific target audiences (including lay persons); copy editing with especial attention to detailed publication specifications; creative writing.
Greenslade Creations (Amanda Greenslade)
PO Box 3038
Browns Plains Qld 4118
Mobile: 0403 124 533
Email: amanda@greensladecreations.com
Website: www.greensladecreations.com
ABN: 50 134 480 116
Availability: Full-time.
Services offered: Writing, editing and/or graphic design and layout of your creative or business projects. My writing services include from scratch (eg. copywriting) and ghost-writing. My editing services include structural editing, line by line editing, proofreading and continuity editing. I can work by your preference of any or all of the above types of editing, or you can hand over your text to me and let me go to it as I see fit.
My graphic design and layout services include books, booklets, tracts, brochures, book covers, email newsletters, DVDs (slicks/jackets, disk art, menu and program graphics for television viewing), newsletters, brochures and flyers (DL, A5, A4—whatever size you need), e-books, business cards, catalogues, manuals, procedural documents and corporate literature, journals, magazines and newspapers, articles, columns, PowerPoint presentations, reports (academic reports, business reports, annual reports etc.), scripts (television, film and plays), websites, prospectuses, university theses, histories, autobiographies, memoirs, educational materials and more.
Special interests: Editing, cover design (books and DVDs), book layout (fiction or non-fiction), with a special interest in Australian speculative fiction authors, e-books and HR documentation (job descriptions, procedural training manuals etc.).
Experience: Employed in graphic design and publishing coordination 2004–2008 (print and web), as a communications officer 2008–2010 and now freelancing in a variety of projects, including book cover design, children’s book layout, email newsletter writing, A4 flyer design and more.
Other relevant experience: Authored fantasy adventure novel Talon (not published as yet): http://www.AmandaGreenslade.com/, volunteer webmaster for The Specusphere, an Australian speculative fiction webzine: http://www.Specusphere.com.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, majoring in Writing and Screen Production.
Special skills: Complete PC publishing setup with Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Dreamweaver, Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Microsoft® Word™, PowerPoint™ and Excel™.
Marianne Hayward
5 Laver Street
Gladstone Qld 4680
Tel: 07 4972 2992 (home & work)
Email: makhayward@yahoo.com.au
Availability: Part-time (Saturday – Monday and evenings).
Services offered: Proofreading and copyediting.
Special interests: I am new to freelance proofreading and copyediting and I am looking for opportunities to gain experience in the industry while honing my skills. Small projects in all genres.
Experience: I am the co-editor and proofreader for the Women's Health Awareness Magazine and proofreader for their annual reports. Teacher aide for language/ literacy at primary and special schools (Ed Qld). Tutor for language/ literacy at the Gladstone Tutorial Centre.
Other relevant experience: I have translated various texts from English into German and vice versa, and have proofread newsletters, reports, advertisements and a biography.
Qualifications: Certificate in Professional Proofreading & Editing. Certificate III in Education language/ literacy. Registration in nursing (Germany).
Robyn Heales
11 Wincott Street
Salisbury Qld 4107
Mobile: 0418 757 964
Email: rheales@ecn.net.au
ABN: 17 474 989 442
Availability: Full-time.
Services offered: Editing, illustration, proofreading, research, writing.
Special interests: Art books/the Arts, children’s books, educational books (tertiary and above), fiction, history, poetry, sciences (social sciences).
Experience: Ten years freelance editing of academic, educational, scientific, business and literary writing (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) for government, corporate and private clients; university lecturer/tutor in English Literature and Communication; research and publication in literary history and criticism; teaching English as a Second Language at TAFE; training workshops on business writing, grammar and oral presentations; oral history interviewing; story and other graphic illustration.
Qualifications: BA Hons (Art History, English), MA, PhD (English Literature), RSA Cert in TESOL, Cert for Secondary School Teaching (Art).
Special skills: Editing poetry and humour; knowledge of literature and visual arts; working with authors of non-English-speaking background; developing communication in the medical context; a ‘creative’.
Lesley Humphrey
12 Chadston Close
Kenmore Hills Qld 4069
Tel: 07 3374 1954
Mobile: 0422 345 726
Email: lesleyhumphrey@bigpond.com
Availability: Full-time.
Services offered: Editing of technical, academic and educational materials; environmental impact statements and technical proposals; reports and manuals; newsletters; fiction and websites.
Special interests: Engineering, environment, economics, education and health.
Experience: 20 years editing experience and 12 years teaching experience in Australia and overseas. Experience with private and public sectors.
Other relevant experience: Lecturer in Diploma of Editing and Publishing at TAFE. Author of five books and several short stories.
Qualifications: BA, Higher Diploma in Education.
Special skills: Turning technical writing into plain English. Working with authors who wish to self-publish. Working with authors whose first language is not English.
Helen Kershaw Editing Services
7 Grigor Street
Caloundra Qld 4551
Tel: 07 5491 4710
Fax: 07 5491 5074
Email: hvkershaw@bigpond.com
Availability: Part-time.
Services offered: Editing, proofreading.
Special interests: Biography, children’s books, fiction, history.
Experience: Manuscript appraisal, editing, writing, liaison with printers, proofreading and marketing advice for self-publishers. Preparation, with clients, of proposals to publishers. Copyediting of reports. Public librarian for 25 years.
Qualifications: BA (UQ), Dip Lib (UNSW), ‘Editing and Proofreading’ and ‘Writing for Editors’ components of Grad Cert Ed Pub (USQ).
Special skills: Knowledge of public library readership; ability to work well with older writers.