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As managing editor at Affirm, I use my deep knowledge of editorial, production and design processes to help ensure the company's trade-publishing list is produced as smoothly as possible and to the highest standard.I also mentor and teach in the subjects of publishing, editing and writing for organisations including the University of Sydney, the University of Technology, Sydney, the Australian Publishers Association, IPEd, and the SA, NSW and ACT Writers Centres.
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Managing EditorAffirm Press Mar 2021 - PresentMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Course Presenter And TeacherUniversity Of Sydney, Uts, Apa, State Writers' Centres And Societies Of Editors Jan 2011 - PresentAdelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, BrisbaneSelection of my most recent teaching:'Advanced Word for Editors', SA Society of Editors, Adelaide, 2017'Proofreading Skills', SA Society of Editors, Adelaide, 2017'On-Screen Editing' and 'Ebooks for Editors', University of Sydney, Sydney, 2017‘Grammar Refresher for Writers’, SA Writers Centre, Adelaide, 2017'Residential Editorial Program', mentor, Australian Publishers Association, Melbourne, 2017'Pitch Conference', mentor, SA Writers Centre, Adelaide, 2016'Fiction Feedback', SA Writers Centre, Adelaide, 2016'Intermediate Word for Editors', SA Society of Editors, Adelaide, 2016
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Managing EditorScribe Publications Jan 2018 - Mar 2021Melbourne, Australia -
Full-Time Editorial FreelancerKevin O'Brien Editorial Services Jan 2013 - Mar 2021Adelaide HillsFull-time freelance editor of trade fiction and non-fiction, and of legal, professional and academic publications, with clients including Penguin Random House, Pan Macmillan, Hachette, UQP, Simon & Schuster, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis and the University of Sydney.
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Senior EditorRandom House Australia Oct 2007 - Dec 2012Sydney, AustraliaTaking Australian adult fiction and non-fiction titles through the entire editorial process, including structural editing and copy-editing, writing and correcting cover copy, managing picture sections, proof corrections and plant-cost budgets, and passing each title for its simultaneous printed and ebook release.Titles I have edited include Batavia and Mawson, by Peter FitzSimons, Bitter Greens, by Kate Forsyth, and Sandakan, by Paul Ham. -
Freelance EditorVarious Apr 2007 - Sep 2007Edinburgh, United KingdomEditing and proofreading predominantly for Canongate Books and Butterworths Tolley (part of the LexisNexis international publishing group).
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Publishing EditorMainstream Publishing Feb 2004 - Apr 2007Edinburgh, United KingdomWorking intensively with authors to take trade titles (in categories such as fiction, biography, history, sport, politics, true crime, humour) through the full editorial process, from editing the initial manuscript to collating proof corrections, clearing copyright and legal issues, organising picture sections, writing and proofing cover blurbs and passing for press.The Random House Group took a 50 per cent holding in Mainstream Publishing in spring 2005, enabling Mainstream to expand its profile and its market.
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BooksellerWaterstones Jun 2003 - Jan 2004Edinburgh, United KingdomSelling, shelving, displaying and ordering all genres of books in this literary-fiction-focused branch, after completing my Masters in English Literature at Edinburgh University.In late 2003, I was one of a small team of booksellers who helped to set up a new branch of Waterstone's at Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh, by receiving and sorting the shop's full stock before the premises was ready, then putting it in place when it was. -
Online EditorButterworths Tolley Publishers Dec 1999 - Sep 2002London, United KingdomEditing, summarising and writing content for the Butterworths online tax news service and library Tax Direct. Checking accuracy of all information and updating legislation and tax case law as and when it changed.I successfully organised and coordinated the department's first fully electronic overnight Budget service, in which a team of ten editors produced a wide range of tax-related printed and online products from the Chancellor's annual Budget report.
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EditorButterworths Tolley Publishers Jul 1998 - Nov 1999London, United KingdomEditor of the 50-page tax publication Simon's Weekly Tax Intelligence, which I edited on screen, proofread, fully dtp-ed and passed for press each week.My main achievement was to implement this publication's transition from traditional publishing methods to electronic solutions from start to finish, making it more efficient and cost-effective, with no discernible change in appearance, accuracy or quality to its subscribers.
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English Literature: Writing And Cultural Politics -
The University Of PlymouthPublishing And Book Production -
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St Boniface'S CollegeVarious
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