Register of freelance publishing services (IJK)

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Janette Whelan Publishing Consultancy
Ben Jansen
Helen Jeays
KT Journalism (Kate Tilley)
Janet Kampen
Alison Anne Keane
Kerry Davies Publishing Services
Maree Kimberley
Kuter Publishing Services (Michael Robert Kuter)

Janette Whelan Publishing Consultancy

36 Craigslea Street
Chermside West Qld 4031
Tel: 07 3359 3547
Fax: 07 3359 3547
Email: janette@squirrel.com.au
ABN: 99 582 300 975

Availability: Full-time.

Services offered: Editing, production supervision, project management, proofreading, research.

Special interests: Annual/business reports, computer skills, educational books (secondary, tertiary and above), history, reference books.

Experience: In-house: 1975–83 Jacaranda Wiley Ltd, head of Editorial 1979–83. Freelance: John Wiley & Sons; University of Queensland Press; Oxford University Press; University of NSW Press; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Harcourt; Hodder; Thomas Nelson; Education Queensland; Department of Environment; Elsevier; WorkCover; Department of Primary Industries; Queensland Transport; Department of Veterans’ Affairs; Suncorp; Ambulance Service; Electricity Commission; Museums Australia; Australian Army; Griffith University; Marist Brothers College. Lecturer in Editing and Project Management in Graduate Diploma of Publishing and Editing, Griffith University; lecturer in Diploma of Editing and Publishing at TAFE; lecturer in Practices of Copyediting, Griffith University.

Qualifications: BA (Hons) (History, Political Science; Tas), BA (Classics; UQ).

Special skills: Project management; school and college texts, professional and reference books, general books; government reports. Electronic editing and project management a speciality.

Ben Jansen

12 Headfort Street
Greenslopes Qld 4120
Tel: 07 3394 1120
Fax: 07 3349 1120 (please phone first)
Email: bjansens@optusnet.com.au
ABN: 99 362 891 313

Availability: Full-time.

Services offered: Editing, magazines, newsletters, production, production supervision, project management, proofreading, research.

Special interests: Biography, CD-ROMs, educational books (primary and secondary), fiction, history, mathematics, reference books.

Experience: Freelance 11 years. Vastly well read.

Special skills: Common sense.

Helen Jeays

14 Clifton Street
Wilston Qld 4051
Tel: 07 3356 8175
Email: hjeays@bigpond.net.au
ABN: 91 363 506 493

Availability: Part-time.

Services offered: Editing, indexing, proofreading, research, writing.

Special interests: Educational books (primary and secondary), reference books, sciences (health sciences, medical, dental).

Experience: Editing health science research papers, editing theses in the humanities and science, freelance writing on medical and dental topics, indexing, research.

Qualifications: BDSc, BA (French, Mandarin), Grad Dip Sciences Communications.

Special skills: Translating science into plain English.

KT Journalism (Kate Tilley)

PO Box 165
Spring Hill Qld 4004
Tel: 07 3831 7500
Fax: 07 3831 7541
Email: ktj@bigpond.com

Availability: Project basis.

Services offered: Design and layout, desktop publishing, editing, magazines, newsletters, production supervision, project management, proofreading, public relations/promotion, research, writing.

Special interests: Annual/business reports.

Experience: KT Journalism, headed by Kate Tilley, employs a team of professional journalists. The company provides a news service for business publications, produces corporate newsletters, brochures and annual reports and also provides communications advice and strategies.

Qualifications: Kate Tilley, BA, Grad Dip Bus, Snr Assoc ANZIIF, MAICD.

Janet Kampen

PO Box 124
Wellers Hill Qld 4121
Mobile: 0409 816 441
Email: janetkampen@hotmail.com

Availability: Part-time.

Services offered: Non-fiction editing, proofreading, writing.

Experience: Editing of legal and human resources materials.

Qualifications: Grad Cert Arts (Writing, Editing and Publishing) University of Queensland 2002.

Special skills: Have worked in education and media.

Alison Anne Keane

Ashgrove Qld 4060
Tel: 07 3311 2678 (work)
Mobile: 0402 795 796
Email: alison@yogamoves.info

Availability: Full-time.

Services offered: Editing and presentation of academic papers, editing of hardcopy and electronic newsletters, general sub-editing and proofreading.

Experience: Academic thesis editor; magazine sub-editor; former ABC News sub-editor, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Other relevant experience: Goverenment public relations, desktop publishing, newsletter production, press and electronic media journalism.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Business (BBus), Master of Social Science (MSSc).

Kerry Davies Publishing Services

15/136 Miskin Street
Toowong Qld 4066
Home/work phone: 07 3371 2701
Mobile: 0423 496 896
Fax: 07 3371 2701
Email: k.davies@bigpond.net.au

Availability: Full-time.

Services offered: Editing, writing/rewriting, project management, proofreading, copyfitting, production liaison, budgeting, scheduling, website content development.

Experience: Began with Jacaranda Wiley and UQ Press 1981–83.
Set-up freelance business in Darwin 1983.
Manager, Magabala Books Aboriginal Corp., Broome 1990–95.
Freelance Brisbane 1995–96, Sydney 1997–2002.
Senior Editor, Focus Publishing, Sydney 2002–04 (Project manager The Great Australia Gazetteer).
Re-established Brisbane 2004.
Principal contract clients (Sydney): ABC Books, Australian Geographic, Harlequin, Macmillan Education, New Holland, Pluto Press, Simon & Schuster, Trocadero Publishing, Weldon Owen.

Other relevant experience: Journalism and production (print, radio and television); marketing and promotions; business development.

Qualifications: BBus (Communication), QIT 1976.

Special skills: Specialising in history, reference and guidebooks (including travel), biography, Indigenous publishing.

Maree Kimberley

36 Lorward Avenue
Bardon Qld 4065
Tel: 07 3876 4771
Mobile: 0402 854 628
Email: m.kimberley@mareekimberley.com.au
Website: http://www.mareekimberley.com.au

Availability: Part-time.

Services offered: Editing and writing content for websites and multimedia, information architecture, project management, proofreading, research.

Special interests: Web editing, web content and multimedia for government and corporate clients.

Experience: Five years web writing and editing for clients including Brisbane City Council, Fine Art Forum, About.com and niche sites on parenting. Writing and editing content for multimedia.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Creative Industries (Creative Writing).

Special skills: Rewriting print content for the web; converting complex information into plain English; creating information architecture and content from scratch or fine-tuning existing web content to create fresh, engaging content that returns high rankings in the major search engines; incorporating accessibility and useability guidelines (including W3C guidelines) into websites’ architecture and content; can advise on optimising web content for search engine rankings.

Kuter Publishing Services (Michael Robert Kuter)

PO Box 1005
Springwood Qld 4127
Phone: 07 3423 1640
Mobile: 0416 197 385
Fax: 07 3423 1640
Email: kuteredit@gmail.com (that’s g for google, not q)
Web site: www.progexdesign.com

Availability: Part-time.

Services offered: Editing, proofreading, indexing, project management, research, writing.

Special interests: Life sciences, medicine, complementary healing, photography, European history.

Experience: As of December 2006, twenty-five years’ experience in publishing as production manager, production coordinator, senior editor, substantive editor, copyeditor, proofreader and indexer in government and commercial publishing, working in multiple media—electronic (web, CD) and print (book, magazine, newspaper) in education (primary, secondary, tertiary and teacher education), health, life sciences, medicine and primary production.

Other relevant experience: Teacher, research scientist, professional photographer and healing practitioner; widely read, have travelled extensively and thought much ‘about it and about …’

Qualifications: Bachelor of Science, The University of Queensland: double major in Physiology and Biochemistry; post-graduate research in both disciplines.

Special skills: Specialist texts rewritten into plain, lucid and often enjoyable English.