Laurie Ormond Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

I have worked as a proofreader on commercial genre fiction and non-fiction titles for Pan Macmillan, Momentum and Simon and Schuster Australia, and have worked as both a proofreader and copyeditor for Harlequin Mira and Escape. I have also provided proofreading services for corporate documents and academic theses. I mark up documents onscreen in Adobe Reader or Word, or if required I can use editor's marks to mark up a document by hand.I take care to provide concise and sensitive notes, addressed to the author, alongside any significant changes. I return manuscripts promptly within the specified timeframe, along with an editor's or proofreader’s report, and I am always keen to hear feedback that can improve my work.

Sydney, Australia

I provide in-house assistance to the editor and publisher at Momentum, preparing titles for both digital and print on demand release

Cammeray

From July this year, I have worked in-house providing editorial and publishing assistance to the Head of Publishing and Managing Editor at Simon and Schuster Australia. My tasks have included proofreading and editing footnotes for a major non fiction work, proofreading, drafting blurbs, taking in and checking changes, preparing titles to be sent to the typesetter, taking inventory and creating and updating an archive of past titles.

Sydney, Australia

From June 2013 until April 2014 I was an editorial intern at Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum. This allowed me to indulge in my love of genre fiction, while at the same time soaking up everything I could about digital first publishing.

Sydney, Australia

In April and May of 2013 I worked as a volunteer on the ACOSS Newstart Allowance May Budget Campaign. My main role was to co-ordinate meetings between stakeholders, and to prepare an open letter and accompanying media release.

Perth, Australia

In 2012 I worked as a contractor in various temporary roles for Drake International, as a medical receptionist and office manager.

Perth, Australia

In this position I combined administrative and editorial support, for the Office of the Director General. I provided secretarial support within the Department, while also acting as a key point of contact between the Department and the Office of the Minister for Community Services. My tasks included proofreading speech notes, briefing notes, media releases, and correspondence; coordinatingMinisterial correspondence using record management software; coordinating and referring queries and responses between the Department for Communities, the Minister’s Office, other departments, non-government organisations and the general public; referring requests and inquiries to appropriate officers for action, negotiating the return of responses, and following up overdue projects. This role also involved general administration duties,including responding to email and phone inquiries, monitoring a group email address; filing; arranging meetings, and assisting the Manager, Executive Services and the Office of the Director General in special projects. One special project was been the drafting and presentation of a skills seminar for staff in the department.

Australia

Writing and delivering lectures, facilitating discussion in small-group tutorials, conducting tutorial activities, assessing student work, recording and organising marks, providing detailed written and verbal feedback on assessment to students, devising lesson plans and teaching materials, liaising with students and course coordinators, developing course materials and assessments in consultation with course coordinators.UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH - UNITS/PROGRAMMES TAUGHT: ENGL1114: Romance: Narratives of Imagination, Semester Two, 2010, [Tutor].ENGL2239: Magic and Marvels in Early Modern Europe, Sem. Two, 2008, [Tutor and Lecturer].ENGL2238: The Medieval in the Modern World, Semester Two, 2007, [Tutor and Lecturer].ENGL1111: Ideas of Modernity, Semester One, 2007, [Tutor and Lecturer].ENGL2239: Magic and Marvels, Semester One 2006, [Tutor and Lecturer].GUEST LECTURES:“Fan Fiction as Creative Writing” for ENGL 1113: Introduction to Creative Writing, Sem. One 2011.“Sir Orfeo” for Magic and Marvels in Early Modern Europe, Sem. Two, 2010. “We are the Monsters Now: Robert Zemeckis’ 3D Beowulf”, “Guy Gavriel Kay’s A Song for Arbonne” and “Modern Medievalist Heroines of Australian Fantasy Fiction” for The Medieval in the Modern World, Sem. One, 2009.

Organisation of citation details through bibliographic software, assessment of material to ensure compliance with copyright law, research to ensure up-to-date references and correct citation information, proofreading and editing of academic writing.

Perth, Australia

Customer service, cashiering, managing and searching the store inventory, taking and recording special orders, liaising with publishers and sales representatives, sales, merchandising and maintaining the presentation of the store.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), English, Social And Cultural Studies

Activities and Societies: General Editor for Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies 2007-2010. Reviews Editor for Limina.

Bachelor Of Arts, English And Classics And Ancient History, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: UWA Pantomime Society Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group Perth University Choral Society ARENA Arts.