Jade Colbert Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Iguana is a new kind of publishing company. We publish e-books, and we publish in all genres: Our sole requirement is that we publish quality books. We’re e-publishing using a new publishing model, one we think works for readers and writers. Our writers get a high royalty rate; our readers get great books.

Toronto, Canada Area

I provided editorial services for a wide range of clients, including publishing companies (trade and educational), governments (municipal, provincial, and federal), corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.Duties: writing; structural editing; stylistic editing; copy editing; fact checking; mark-up; proofreading; and project management.

Toronto, Canada Area

Previously: Production Editor (2007)I selected and edited images and texts (poetry, fiction, memoir, and essay) for the Winter 2011 issue of Descant magazine, a quarterly literary journal. I also wrote a brief introductory essay on the issue's theme ("A Winter Reader"). This project involved working closely with the in-house production editor.

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Previously: Magazine Editor (2008–2009); Copy Editor (2007–2008)The Varsity is Canada’s largest student newspaper and the primary student publication at the University of Toronto since 1880. In addition to the newspaper published twice weekly (circulation: 21,500), Varsity Publications also publishes The Varsity Magazine, TheVarsity.ca, and The Varsity Handbook. Duties: managing a masthead of approximately 30 editors and over 200 contributors; substantive editing; community outreach; overseeing production; directing the corporation in its day-to-day functions; reporting to the Varsity Board of Directors; and chairing the executive committee.

Toronto, Canada Area

Copy editing and proofreading; writing cover and catalogue copy, as well as creative briefs and reader reports; and conducting rights research.

Toronto, Canada Area

Research conducted under Professor Matthew Farish towards an upcoming book on Cold War military activities in the Canadian Arctic.

Certificate, Continuing Education: Publishing

Courses: Digital Publishing, Trade Publishing, Educational Publishing, Substantive and Stylistic Editing, Fiction Editing, Copy Editing.

Honours Bachelor Of Arts (Hba), English, Canadian Studies, Geography

Activities and Societies: The Varsity, Hart House Review, Hart House Literary & Library Committee, Hart House Art Committee, Acta.

Foundation Year Programme

President's List, 2004